Every year Giant holds their "Link" to showcase the next year's product line to the top 150 dealers in the Country.  This year the "Link" was held in West Lake Village, CA.  Rich and Chris spent their week riding next year's models with some of Giant's top pro riders like Jeff Lenosky, Adam Craig and Carl Decker.  The guys got to tour Giant's U.S. Headquarters and catch one of Jeff's trials shows.

In between conferences and meetings the guys got to ride the Santa Monica Range.  On Giant's 2012 model bikes the guys attacked a 26 mile loop with 5-6 miles of climbs.  After another ride mid-week, the group took a detour to Santa Monica Beach where Giant treated them to a beach cook-out.

Explaining what the guys learned about next year's Giant line would take up three pages and cause most readers to  fall asleep at their computers.  If you're interested in anything the boys may have brought home, besides "headaches" and jet-lag, feel free to drop by the store or send an email.  Everything form torsional stiffness numbers to new frame geometry; Rich and Chris can help you out.  Hopefully we'll get some pics up soon, in the mean-time drop us a line.  

What we can tell you is 2012 is shaping up to be Giant's "Year of the Roadbike" with complete re-designs on all of Giant's Carbon Frames; weight, comfort and stability are all going to be brought up a notch...stay tuned.