New Bike Day!

Delivery between 9am-6pm.

*drums fingers, looks up at every hint of a van going past the window*

Cooool. get it built and tested ASAP.

I want strava figures today !

Delivery between 9am-6pm.

The “while you were out” card is already on the door mat…

Mine turned up yesterday and is built up waiting for me to pay for it. Then I’ll strip it and rebuild it.

Then I’ll strip it and rebuild it.

I do this too as a matter of precaution. What have you got?

The “while you were out” card is already on the door mat…

Don’t you know it, I have to do the school run at 5pm, what are the chances…

Genesis Equilibrium Disc 20 but it will be upgraded before it hits the roads.

Nice!

Which courier?
I had a school run timed delivery recently. Left a note saying ‘school run’ and the DPD driver turned up just after I got back saying he saw the note, did a couple of other local deliveries then came back.

DPD – thumbs up!

DPD are awesome! You can follow the van around on a map on the website, and it tells you which number you are in his delivery queue and how many he’s done so far. Well worth paying a few quid extra for.

Oh and photos when it does turn up 🙂

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*gets excited *

Er, that’s not a Giant, is it?

Why do you ask?

Looks like a cheap box.

I upgraded my box to carbon, sick of those .heavy, flexy cardboard ones

gonna miss your what bike threads 😥

hmmm, still nothing… No rushed lunchtime build?

gonna miss your what bike threads

Give him a minute!

It doesn’t look like a Giant box, unless they’ve scrimped on printer’s fees for 2015. I still want to cash in my prize for correctly guessing what bike you would buy.

The bike has been revealed already.

The bike has been revealed already.

He’s started a separate thread just for the box?

Weird.

The shop probably just used a bigger box to package it after it was PDI’d.

Now about this build…

Well, here it is, adjusted, everything at the “right” pressure, Ron replacing Ralph at the front, cable rub protection on, just need to order a chainstay protector (not sure I trust the clutch mech that much) and a mucky nutz fender.

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First around-the-garden impression are good, but not so good for the Yeti – but I’ll wait until newbikeness has gone away before I make a decision on that.

Strangley, the bike looks “more” in real life than it does in pictures.

Them there wheels are 2.4Kg of heavyness…

So, what bike for cyclocross? 😉

Anthems, at the least, deserve to have the stem flipped and preferably slammed.

Do this now, instead of going through the years of experiment I went through to discover just that. It makes it feel flippin’ mental fast.

Them there wheels are 2.4Kg of heavyness…

2kg according to Giants site, although the whole bike is only 27lb, but give me a chance ffs, its just come out of the box, upgrades later..

munrobiker – its a long stock stem (100mm). I anticpated replacing it immediataly but like that it feels fine but a bit upright. I’m sure it’ll go down some spacer before I get to where I want to be, but before i replace it (its OD2), I want to be sure everything is right.

2kg according to Giants site, although the whole bike is only 27lb, but give me a chance ffs, its just come out of the box, upgrades later..

I’ve had them and weighed them… give me till later and i’ll give you both the weights front and rear.

Overdrive puts be off Giant completely. Blatant standards for cash.

its not overdrive

Looks a bit different to what you were going to buy..

I ran mine with a 100m stem and 700m wide bars. Shorter stems just didn’t suit it- it is a race bike.

Honourablegeorge- they’ve given up on it now for most of their MTBs I think.

dirtyrider – Member

its not overdrive

Funny, the OP says it is, and he has the bike in front of him, and the specs on the Giant sire agree with him.

dirtyrider – Member
its not overdrive

Its got “overdrive 2” written on the headtube and one of the spacers – its a 2014 not 2015 bike if thats what confused you. YOu can buy new stems aftermarket but anyway, it feels fine as it is, and as said above, i bought it for racing so want to be more long, forward & less relaxed on it.

A 2014 bike with a now-dropped, short-lived “standard”. It’s already been superceded….

So? It has open bath non-FIT, non kashima forks, a 9mm quick release at the rear, and non dropper post as well.

Crikey I’m almost crying in my beer what have I done….

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Looks a bit different to what you were going to buy..

thankfully!

It has open bath non-FIT, non kashima forks, a 9mm quick release at the rear, and non dropper post as well.

do they still have silly BBs aswell? Unlike the stuff you’ve mentioned that would put me off.

Not sure what you mean by “silly”? Its Shimano pressfit.

I have ridden a few bikes with a dropper post and it’s only after the ride I think “ah, I probably could have used that”.