Prototype Giant Downhill Bike Spy Shots
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Hmmmm, Looks quite similar to a certain frame that has the same style of linkage!!!
The frame from that one pic looks really good though. I'm digging that hydroformage.
The frame from that one pic looks really good though. I'm digging that hydroformage.
It will, it is only January.
WOW That looks even closer to a dw link than the first one. Dave wont be happy.
Do they have anyone to ride it for them in 2009? :huh:
Read the link.
The one Rando rode 08 looked great. I had a chance to take a close look at it in Schladming.
The new one looks even better and the changed the shock position too. Very sunday like, which is good.
The new one looks even better and the changed the shock position too. Very sunday like, which is good.
Or maybe testing DW's reaction
Wonder if it will pedal like a Sunday (well) or pedal like a Glory?
i just hope that they cut the weight down on it.
Very pleasing aesthetically IMO. If the shoe fits when it comes out, I plan to pick one up. It'll be time for a new frame by then anyway.
here we go again 
Maybe this time they will call it the Giant Monday:biggrin:here we go again
dont care.. looks pimp and i want one!!!
hehe i think i started the last dw/giant debate..
hehe i think i started the last dw/giant debate..
very profound statement...well thought and good use of words.
Agreed, it was succinct, to the point, it was almost hemmingway-esq.
cough cough....looks flexy
I must resisit putting a "Rootbeer" color commit here.
I must resist e-speculation on the quantity of shims utilized, lest the fun police will show up
cool-looking bearing caps...
yessssss! i am all about that! cant wait to get on one.
I think it looks nice. The tubes are cleanly executed and while the shock is vertical and it uses a dual diamond frame, the linkage arrangement looks different than what the Sunday used. I'm willing to bet they've done their legal homework and if we discredited the number of bikes that looked similar to one another, we'd have no road cycling or hardtails whatsoever.
Fact is, the Sunday was a cleanly executed and well thought out design. It's likely that Turner isn't using it because it would make the bike look like an Iron Horse. Iron Horse isn't using it because they can't. That means...somebody else can make a bike that looks like that, and sell it...despite the e-****storm
Fact is, the Sunday was a cleanly executed and well thought out design. It's likely that Turner isn't using it because it would make the bike look like an Iron Horse. Iron Horse isn't using it because they can't. That means...somebody else can make a bike that looks like that, and sell it...despite the e-****storm
The spring on that shock is on upside-down.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
a spring on upside down? you cant be serious! maybe thats why Bubba scrubs jumps so well, he mounts his spring upside down!
:huh:
hi im the joke, sorry we missed each other
All you people concerned about patents on two links should quit stressing it.
Glider chairs have had two-link set ups for the last hundred years. No one at Ikea is pissed off that Dave W used something similar to make a bike. Two triangles moving on two links... no biggie. And if it is, the right people will take the right actions to protect their inventions.
Glider chairs have had two-link set ups for the last hundred years. No one at Ikea is pissed off that Dave W used something similar to make a bike. Two triangles moving on two links... no biggie. And if it is, the right people will take the right actions to protect their inventions.
You used to many m's, Hemingway would not approve.
One of these days I'm going to post a picture of my ass and say it's a prototype frame.
oh yea... thing looks sooo sick.
My single pivot feels more snappy in the corners.All you people concerned about patents on two links should quit stressing it.
Glider chairs have had two-link set ups for the last hundred years. No one at Ikea is pissed off that Dave W used something similar to make a bike. Two triangles moving on two links... no biggie. And if it is, the right people will take the right actions to protect their inventions.
haha.
i'd guess that to be the hardtail of chairs? i like where this is going. wildly derailing the thread for the sake of seating analogies.
I like the Blue on it!!! More old pics:
Glider Chairs FTW.
Did anyone notice the wicked seat on the proto Glory with the boss stuff?