2016 Giant Propel Advanced Pro 2

Dan Walton

Not a great pic, I know, but I wanted to show it off because... well, it's shiny and new and I want to! 8)



Pic was taken literally as I got the bike out of the car from the shop, hence the presence of several warning stickers...

Frame: Giant Propel Advanced Pro (Large)
Fork: Carbon with carbon Overdrive 2 steerer
Bars: Giant Contact SL
Stem: Giant Contact SL

Brake Levers: Shimano 5800 105
Brake Calipers: Giant SpeedControl Ti
Cables: Jagwire
Mechs: Shimano 5800 105

Seat: Giant Contact SL Forward
Seat Post: Giant Vector Composite

Cranks: Shimano 5800 105
Chainring(s): 36/52
Chain: KMC X11L
Cassette: 12-28
Pedals: Shimano 5800 105
Bottom Bracket: Shimano PressFit

Wheels: Giant SL 1 Aero
Tires: Giant P-SL1 23mm folding

Accessories: Giant RideSense ANT+ speed and cadence sensor, Giant Airway Pro carbon cages, Garmin Edge 520 on Garmin out-front mount, K-Edge Pro chain catcher

Weight: 8.4kg

Bike is just as it arrived from Giant, although it has better brakes than they had specified (Speed Control Ti instead of boggo Speed Control) and has Jagwire cables too, which was a pleasant suprise.

Also got a K-Edge chain catcher thrown in with it... and a couple of carbon bottle cages. And a torque wrench, a pair of bibs, a short sleeve jersey, two base layers, a pair of overshoes and half a dozen inner tubes. Got a love Pedal On and their Podium Points!

Haven't had a chance to get out in it yet, will hopefully find a couple of hours on Friday and/or the weekend, if not I'll sling my other wheel on it and hit the turbo.

Unfortunately the magnet won't clear the sensor on the fork for my Cateye speedo, so a Garmin will be on the cards in the (hopefully) not too distant future.

Omar Little

You'll enjoy it, they are great bikes - handle really nice and despite being aero and stiff are also comfortable too. Not sure if it is the same this year but photos didn't do alot of the 2015 paint jobs justice with the pearlescent sparkle to them - is that still the case?

It will have a ridesense sensor on the left chainstay so that will be neater than a cateye and you wont need the extra garmin speed and cadence sensor just magnets and then the garmin (or other other computer) to pick up the ant+ signal

noodleman

Looks great, and a nice change from all the black and blue propels you see about. Might just be me but with all these huge aero frame tube shapes, compact chainsets look tiny.

SCR Pedro

Looks great. The new (old, actually) Giant logo has also grown on me, and I didn't think it would.

Dan Walton

As I said, the picture isn't great and doesn't really show the colours very well as it was starting to get a little dark. The white is pearlescent and the blue a lovely deep metallic. I'm really pleased with it, obviously hadn't seen one in the flesh when I ordered it in August!

I forgot to say, it's a Large, so that coupled with the chunky nature of the frame probably does make chainset look a little small.

I will be looking to pick a Garmin up, just as soon as the wife has forgotten about how much I just spent on the bike! Maybe if I manage to get lost in the middle of nowhere again in the dark with no food and dying lights, I might be able to justify the purchase of one...

joeb_444

Love the look of these. Nice ride

fishzaku

Lovely bike. May I ask what is the weight of the bike?

Dan Walton

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19775755#p19775755]fishzaku[/url] wrote:

Lovely bike. May I ask what is the weight of the bike?

Thanks!

I haven't weighed it yet although I have been curious to know what it comes in at. I'll try and do it over the weekend and let you know

fishzaku

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19775859#p19775859]Dan Walton[/url] wrote:

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19775755#p19775755]fishzaku[/url] wrote:

Lovely bike. May I ask what is the weight of the bike?

Thanks!

I haven't weighed it yet although I have been curious to know what it comes in at. I'll try and do it over the weekend and let you know

Thanks! Look forward to the update!

Dan Walton

So, I've just weighed it as below...







That's the bike with cages, Garmin mount, chain catcher and oodles of spare cable poking out the top tube!

I'm not sure these are the best scales ever, but for reference I weighed the back wheel on it's own quickly and it came out bang on 1700g which is what Giant claim... except mine was done with a cassette, tube, tyre and skewer. I thought manufacturers claimed weights would be optimistic and without anything on the wheels?

But then 8.4kg doesn't seem unrealistic for the bike, does it?

fishzaku

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19776691#p19776691]Dan Walton[/url] wrote:

So, I've just weighed it as below...







That's the bike with cages, Garmin mount, chain catcher and oodles of spare cable poking out the top tube!

I'm not sure these are the best scales ever, but for reference I weighed the back wheel on it's own quickly and it came out bang on 1700g which is what Giant claim... except mine was done with a cassette, tube, tyre and skewer. I thought manufacturers claimed weights would be optimistic and without anything on the wheels?

But then 8.4kg doesn't seem unrealistic for the bike, does it?

for a aero one yes it is OK with stock gears!

bukowski102

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19776691#p19776691]Dan Walton[/url] wrote:

So, I've just weighed it as below...







That's the bike with cages, Garmin mount, chain catcher and oodles of spare cable poking out the top tube!

I'm not sure these are the best scales ever, but for reference I weighed the back wheel on it's own quickly and it came out bang on 1700g which is what Giant claim... except mine was done with a cassette, tube, tyre and skewer. I thought manufacturers claimed weights would be optimistic and without anything on the wheels?

But then 8.4kg doesn't seem unrealistic for the bike, does it?

Hi I'm looking at the 2015 version and interested in how it rides??
How are the aero benefits? And how does it climb? Responsiveness?
I'm interested in using this in crits
Many thanks

Crozza

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19776691#p19776691]Dan Walton[/url] wrote:

I'm not sure these are the best scales ever, but for reference I weighed the back wheel on it's own quickly and it came out bang on 1700g which is what Giant claim... except mine was done with a cassette, tube, tyre and skewer. I thought manufacturers claimed weights would be optimistic and without anything on the wheels?

Giant are quoting for the wheelset - front and rear wheels with everything stripped off them (right down to rim tape). you have weighed a single wheel with all the trimmings

Dan Walton

bukowski102 wrote:

Hi I'm looking at the 2015 version and interested in how it rides??
How are the aero benefits? And how does it climb? Responsiveness?
I'm interested in using this in crits
Many thanks

Hi, good luck finding a 2015 one, I couldn't back in August!

To be honest I can't really comment on the aero benefits, I'm not a particularly aero build myself and had been off the bikes for a while before getting this so couldn't really make a comparison against a traditional bike.

I haven't managed to ride it much yet as I've got a dodgy knee, but what I have experienced on it has been good. It's a little less compliant over rougher roads than my old aluminium Defy but then I can also feel an improvement in response to pedalling input than I was previously used to. A lot of this could be placebo effect of having a new bike and rationalising/justifying the purchase to myself!

Crozza wrote:

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19776691#p19776691]Dan Walton[/url] wrote:

I'm not sure these are the best scales ever, but for reference I weighed the back wheel on it's own quickly and it came out bang on 1700g which is what Giant claim... except mine was done with a cassette, tube, tyre and skewer. I thought manufacturers claimed weights would be optimistic and without anything on the wheels?

Giant are quoting for the wheelset - front and rear wheels with everything stripped off them (right down to rim tape). you have weighed a single wheel with all the trimmings

Ah, ok cool. So it's just coincidental then this the rear built up as it is matches one of the two weights the mention (1700g and 1840g, not sure what they are referring to with each?).

The secret rider

Nice bike