- Hey everybody, I'm Mike Levy.
We're here up on the top of Cypress mountain this morning,
high above Vancouver.
And this tri colored bike next to me,
is Giants all new Trance X Advanced Pro 0.
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There's 135 millimeters of rear wheel travel,
150 millimeter fork and adjustable geometry.
Now Giant also says, that it's one trail bike to do it all.
We're gonna test that claim
in an upcoming field test review video.
But for now,
let's zoom in and take a closer look at the Trance X.
The advanced Pro 0 part of the name,
well that means that this bike,
it's the top tier model
and it has Fox's Live Valve suspension on it.
It'll cost you $8500,
but you don't need to spend that much
to get a Carbon Trance.
They start off at $4300 or $5400 for the middle model.
If Carbon is not your thing, $2300
is where the Aluminum bikes start at.
They have the same geometry and they spot the same
geometry adjustment chip in the rocker link
that we're gonna take a closer look at in a minute.
The Trance name has been around since way back in 2005,
and it's grown in both travel and real size
during the last 16 years.
This new version,
is carbon fiber from tip to tail,
including a carbon forged rocker link that Giant says,
helps to save a little weight.
Now speaking of weight, the frame weighs 2100 grams clammed.
That's about 600 grams less than the aluminum version.
The carbon frame is also made in Giants own factory,
where they make their own bikes
as well as a whole bunch of other people's,
but don't tell anybody.
Over drive.
Mega drive.
Power core.
Is any of that usable?
- [Cameraman] No.
- Over drive, Mega drive and power core.
Like most companies Giant has a whole bunch
of impressive sounding words to describe
some of the Trance X's features.
Let's start with overdrive,
which is really just a tapered head tube
with one and a half inch lower bearings
that will fit any standard taper fork.
Mega drive is also about large tubes,
but this time we're talking about the down tube
and seat tube area,
And those are bigger obviously, to make things stiffer.
Now there's also power core.
Now that refers to the 92 millimeter wide bottom bracket.
Everything is nice and wide and stiff.
Other frame details include
a whole bunch of well thought out protection,
it should keep any scratches and noise to a minimum.
Tabs around the bottom bracket shell for a chain guide,
room for 2.5 inch wide rear tire, internal routing,
and of course, there's enough room inside the front triangle
for you to fit that two liter of Mountain Dew
that you're gonna to bring with you on your ride.
Okay, let's talk suspension.
And I bet you know the story here.
Maestro suspension on the back of the Trance X.
Now that's a dual link co-rotating system
that delivers 135 millimeters of travel.
Both of those links, they rotate clockwise.
That's also about 20 millimeters more travel
than the non X Trance, the regular Trance.
There's also something to note here,
adjustable geometry via a flip chip.
Now Giant has pretty much never offered adjustable geometry
on one of their production bikes.
But it's worth noting
that their prototype World Cup Downhill bike,
has used it for a few seasons now.
So adjustable geometry
usually offers a pretty small range of adjustment.
I've complained about that before,
I don't want my head angle to change by 0.2 degrees
and my bottom bracket to change by a couple millimeters.
I want it to be a noticeable difference.
Well, Giant's done exactly that.
You flip that flip chip around,
and it changes the head angle by 0.7 degrees.
So three quarters of a degree.
It also changes the bottom bracket height by 10 millimeters.
Some other suspension details,
the upper shock mount is Trunnion as are most these days.
And the lower shock mount is actually a co-pivot.
It shares duties with the shock mount
and the lower links forward pivot,
so you save weight by not having to have another pivot axle.
Now basically Live Valve
is sort of computer control suspension system.
It uses an accelerometer on the front and back of the bike
to measure impacts and the velocity
and adjust the compression damping accordingly.
There's a microprocessor that figures all this out,
so you don't have to think about it.
And the idea is that you could just ride your bike,
up the hill, down the hill, along flat ground,
and you never have to flick any switches or levers
to get the bike to work as best.
Fox says that the whole system can respond
in around three milliseconds,
so that's about 100 times faster than you can blink.
So again, the whole idea here,
you don't have to think about anything,
you could just ride the bike.
Onto the geometry, I'm five foot 10,
and this is a large size Trance X
with a 484 millimeter reach in the lower setting.
If you raise the geometry,
it stretches out to 496 millimeters.
The effective top tube length, 629 millimeters.
We already talked about those head angles.
The steeper setting is 66.2, you can slack it out to 65.5.
If you're heading down some steep stuff,
I suspect that's where everybody
is gonna put it and leave it.
Seat angles, either 77.2 or 77.9 degrees.
And again that bottom bracket drop,
the lowest setting 40 millimeters of bottom bracket drop,
you raise it up a little bit, you get 30 millimeters a drop.
It's also nice to see
a reasonably short 465 millimeter seat tube length
on this large.
There's a whole bunch of newish bikes out there,
where the seat tubes are way too long
and that keeps you from running,
a longer dropper seat post.
Alright, so that is it
for Giants all new Trance X Advanced Pro 29 0.
I'm pretty sure I got the name right.
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I'm gonna put some pedals on it, go for a ride.
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