Giant Glory

[Bike Whore]

A pic found on Farkin, mine should be built up and had it's 1st ride this time tomorrow.

I will post up a few more pics

Cheers

[shiny_car]

we want YOUR pic. let us know how it goes.

[theg1ant]

nice if i had a job and lived near a lift acess mountain i would totaly get one of those.but now i have my reign 3 and thats perfect for what i do

[[bEn]]

So far that is my dream DH bike, followed by the Kona Stab Supreme. The Glory is such a nice looking bike... God i want one!!

I want to get a really high quality picture of it, like a 500kb-1mb picture, so i can print it off big and put on my wall like what I have done with some of the Kona's. Their pictures on their site are really big.

This is the biggest i've found so far, and its from the US Giant site...

[frango]

bike whore, it's a quite unusual color of the glory... US version is team blue and european is black with silver stripes... but the one you found looks like navy?
mine glory will come in may... I still have to sell my F2

[gruczniak]

Looks like black. Its question of light and quality of the photo i guess.

[frango]

guys, tell me pls
if you take a look at clamps of the fox40 you will see that on the "black" bike they are lower than on the blue one... I also noticed that distance between lower clamp and the o-rings on the top of the lower legs is much bigger than the travel of the fork... it's about 230mm I think... what for? can I lower clamps to change geometry?

[gruczniak]

U can change placement of lower crown, still u are restricted by the limits (on marzocchi there are stickers informing about the limits, bet that on Fox too). Yes changing the crown position will change the geo.

[Pinky]

Japanese spec Glory COMP !
It had to happen I guess.

[[bEn]]

I dig the blue one. Very nice colour. The white japanese version aint so bad, but if the decals were red, it would have looked much better.

[frango]

U can change placement of lower crown, still u are restricted by the limits (on marzocchi there are stickers informing about the limits, bet that on Fox too). Yes changing the crown position will change the geo.

nie, na foxie nie ma, kolego
but, thx anyway

gosh, but japanese glory team is actually the bike I dream about... boxxer WC, sram XO, hayes el camino... why can't I have it?!

[gruczniak]

np.
siema

[Bike Whore]

bike whore, it's a quite unusual color of the glory... US version is team blue and european is black with silver stripes... but the one you found looks like navy?
mine glory will come in may... I still have to sell my F2

this Glory is a New Zealand / Australian spec, it's matt black

[Bike Whore]

finally it arrives, very nice in the flesh




and somne close up's here.

http://forums.freeriden.co.nz/viewto...=1774&start=90

[[bEn]]

looking reeeeeeaaaal good bikewhore!

[frango]

bikewhore, which size did you take? M short or long? what's the weight?

[beauster]

nice ride whore. the only thing i recomend doing is taking some of them spacers off the steerer tube and cut it down maybe. or just put some spacers on top of the stem

[Bike Whore]

bikewhore, which size did you take? M short or long? what's the weight?

it's medium, not alot in it between small and medium, i have always ridden a small
but this feels a nice fit.

Rides well and although it's a 8 inch fork it rides along the flats and up hill real sweet.

[Bike Whore]

nice ride whore. the only thing i recomend doing is taking some of them spacers off the steerer tube and cut it down maybe. or just put some spacers on top of the stem

definitely, the pics are taken as soon as i built it up so hadn't touched the sterrer or spacers.

[frango]

it's medium, not alot in it between small and medium, i have always ridden a small
but this feels a nice fit.

Rides well and although it's a 8 inch fork it rides along the flats and up hill real sweet.

ok, but pls tell me what's the weight? it's quite important for me

[Bike Whore]

ok, but pls tell me what's the weight? it's quite important for me

it weighs 42 pounds, give or take 1 pound on my fish scales.

the standard tyres are super heavy and thick.

[frango]

ok, thank you
i'd prefere take 1lb
you say Michelin tires are thick? (I checked it - 1250g each ) US version of glory has very thin (cause a lot of snake bites) Kenda Blue Groove and Nevegal tires... ever wire version wights 880g size 2,5"
I hope someone will have US glory, soon

[en are es]

Just FYI to whoever said the bike was navy color, the first bike posted is black. Second is in fact team blue. That is how team blue looks on all Giant's bikes.

I dont think you could ever get me on a dowhill bike... or at least not to purchase one. Not very practical if you ask me, I take my NRS-3 on the road all the time no problem. Good luck doing that on a Glory or Faith,..

[KonaStinky05]

I dont think you could ever get me on a dowhill bike... or at least not to purchase one. Not very practical if you ask me, I take my NRS-3 on the road all the time no problem. Good luck doing that on a Glory or Faith,..

That doesnt help this thread very much. It has nothing to do with how how well it will ride on the road .

I would love to have that bike.

[H2o-Bar]

Well, I've been reading about the Glory for months and I finally picked mine up today (US version).
The fish scale at the bike shop showed 42.5 lbs (16.5" frame and No pedals).
At home my digital bathroom scale showed 43.4 ibs. The bike came with really light Kenda 2.5 tires and Maxxis H-D tubes. Not bad but not what has been posted on some of the other Giant sites.