When you're climbing high alpine roads or competing in grueling classics races, your go-to bike is ultralight weight with super-stiff pedaling transmission and aero efficiency. This is where the TCR Advanced SL comes in, re-engineered to climb, corner and descend with uncompromising all-rounder speed.
Whatever your race situation, the legendary TCR Advanced SL gives you an advantage. It’s built on the lightest road frameset ever produced by Giant and features new aero tube shaping in the headtube, downtube and fork for pure speed and efficiency. The Variant integrated seatpost design saves weight while also adding compliance for a smoother ride on rough roads. Proven Compact Road Design gives the TCR Advanced SL the perfect blend of razor-sharp handling and confident control, and a new aero-efficient Giant Contact SL composite handlebar and stem complete this race-winning package.
Class-leading efficiency
New cutting-edge composite materials, reengineered tubing shapes and advanced robotic layup techniques result is a livelier ride quality, explosive acceleration and improved climbing efficiency with outstanding torsional frame stiffness.
Advanced aerodynamics
This is where the TCR’s most quantifiable gains can be found compared to previous generation models. Every tube shape was analysed, engineered and tested to create an overall structure with significantly lower drag at a wider range of yaw angles. The result is a TCR that’s faster than ever in sprints and solo situations.
Total control
From composite WheelSystems with greater crosswind stability to user-friendly tubeless tire setups, this new TCR delivers greater control in a wide variety of road conditions. An all-new composite fork boasts impressive torsional stiffness.
This performance race bicycle is the result of a collaboration between Giant engineers, product developers, leading aerodynamics experts and some of today's top professional racers. Whilst the TCR has constantly pushed the limits of performance as a controversial race bike with a compact geometry and radically different look to other race bikes, and has been a staple in the pro peleton since 1998, earning wins at major races around the world for more than 20 years, the team took on the challenge to make it more efficient. The new TCR has been proven to be significantly more aerodynamic than its previous iteration, and maintains its best-in-class stiffness-to-weight ratio. Every tube shape has been modified to reduce drag without adding weight or compromising the qualities that have made it a leading pro-level race bike.