Nowadays road bikes come in all shapes and sizes. Giant were the first manufacturer to introduce sloping top tubes. Initially people thought they looked weird compared to the horizontal top tubed steel frames that everyone was used to. However nowadays the vast majority of road bikes have sloping top tubes, they are the norm and…
Giant make a range of road bikes than can be basically split into 3 different categories : Defy = Sportive bike TCR = Endurance Race bike Porpel = Aero Race bike Within each range are a number of different options based upon price and varying characteristics. Previously I tested the Defy Advanced SL1 but over the…
Some bike reviews are based upon a two hour spin up and down a few hills and along a piece of flat road on a sunny Balearic Island. This is not one of those reviews. Over the course of a number of months I have used this bike in many different ways. There is…
Sometimes, I watch way too many youtube videos of cobbled classics and find myself planting the bike in a big gear, sitting off the back of the saddle, loosely gripping the tops of the bars and putting the pedal to the metal on surfaces so bad they can only be described as no surface at all.
