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CyclingTips Podcast

The TCRcast: Chatting with the engineers behind the Giant TCR

CyclingTips Podcast

CyclingTips

Sports, Technology

4.4931 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Giant’s ninth-generation TCR family follows in the footsteps of other major players in the industry in that it now adds a generous dose of aerodynamic shaping to its previously light-and-stiff formula. We sat down with two of the engineers behind the bike for a deep dive on its creation. This episode is brought to you by Giant.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Cyclment Tips Podcast,

0:03.0

everybody. I am Kayle Fretz and we have a very special

0:16.7

episode for you today. We're doing a deep dive on the brand new giant

0:23.4

TCR. We got some special folks with us today.

0:26.5

You first.

0:28.0

Oh, hi, I'm Sophia.

0:31.0

I am the engineer of China Roting.

0:35.0

And I'm Eric Klem and I'm the design manager for our cycling innovation group here in Tainchaun.

0:41.0

And of course, James Wong. Not quite as special as the others, but that's okay. James, where do we begin here?

0:50.0

I think we can begin just with the very basics, I think so I mean this is of course the the latest and

0:55.0

so I mean this is of course the the latest and greatest

0:58.7

to t.c.

0:59.7

you know in giants history of road bikes.

1:03.0

TCR is I think without any argument the most important model that

1:08.0

Giant has ever had and it has a long history of being light and stiff.

1:14.7

And with this latest iteration,

1:16.2

you obviously had a mandate to add some arrow elements,

1:19.3

too, which it really hasn't had in the past.

1:21.6

So how do you do that sort of thing without breaking the

1:24.8

formula? Yeah, it's a tough thing. I think like you guys are pretty familiar with

1:29.6

the TCR and you've been to some of our launches in the past and I think when it started with

1:34.0

the Mike Burroughs design many many years ago with compact road geometry, light stiff

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