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Giant says the process yields fewer voids and more strength than just re-baking alone and shaves 100g from the TCR Advanced SL over more conventional bonding.Īs was the case with last years bike, Giant still builds the TCR Advanced SL in its own Taiwanese factory from start-to-finish. Standard bonding methods are used at the bottom bracket and dropouts but the chain stay yoke and top tube are joined to the seat tube using a new ∟usion procedure.Īccording to Giant, Fusion is similar in concept to wrapped tube-to-tube joints but goes one step further by placing the entire frame back in a mold and re-baking it under high pressure. The top tube, head tube and down tube are molded as a single unit, as are the seat tube, chain stay and seat stay assemblies but how those bits are joined is new for ∐9. Out back, asymmetrical chain stays have also grown in size and now mate to an 86mm-wide shell with press-fit bearing cups while the seat stays actually look to have gotten a touch smaller. The matching fork is bigger and wider than before, too, and the lower bearing set is integrated into the crown to eliminate sharp fiber bends and also to drop a few grams. Both of those tubes also partially wrap themselves around a newly tapered-and-oversized 1 1/8"-to-1 1/4" front end for additional bracing. The TCR Advanced SLs down tube wears a gargantuan rectangular profile roughly 80mm across at its base and the top tube sports a bigger trapezoidal shape as opposed to last years roundish pipes.
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