Eurobike 2009 at Freidrichshafen Germany in Birmingham, United Kingdom - photo by si-paton

Giant Maestro

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Album: eurobike
Category: DH Racing
Date Posted: Sep 3, 2009 at 13:30
Sep 3, 2009
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Trail: Freidrichshafen Germany
Riders: Eurobike 2009
Articles: Euro Bike Part 4 and Final.

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andrewko (Sep 5, 2009 at 20:33)

makes me think of sesh 88 a tiny bit

brule (Sep 10, 2009 at 12:03)

I personally really like the looks of this new Glory and am looking forward to trying one out.

SthFRider (Sep 12, 2009 at 10:19)

looks like a trek session if you ask me

muddywaters7 (Sep 12, 2009 at 12:34)

As in it has 2 wheels and fox shocks? yeah looks just like one then...

tackytraks (Sep 12, 2009 at 10:40)

i wonder if they went back to using the blue 729s laced to the sunringle hubs. it was a terrible combo.

RM396 (Sep 12, 2009 at 16:16)

rims are hideous... would have been nicer with white rims and white lowers on the fork

cazneaux (Sep 10, 2009 at 21:05)

WTF? I thought they switched their suspension tech. to DW link?

mkirk05 (Sep 12, 2009 at 0:30)

nnnnnno. why would they do that, their Giant, they own their own patent that works just as well if not better...and they run the fricken show. without them 70% of bikes wouldnt exist

pwngemn (Oct 17, 2009 at 20:38)

no its still maestro but maestro has always looked identical to dw

hypo1 (Sep 12, 2009 at 1:49)

when it's on sale .hurry up!!

the-dadavist (Sep 12, 2009 at 20:11)

what do you know.. simple may just be better

bnt123 (Sep 13, 2009 at 8:23)

not quite the same as a faith, slightly different geometry

aabider (Sep 3, 2009 at 13:59)

COOOOOL.......

jordilunn101 (Sep 12, 2009 at 0:50) (Below Threshold)

is it me or this is just a faith????

Kornowski (Sep 12, 2009 at 5:38) (Below Threshold)

Yeah, they look almost identical. The older Faiths were so much better looking than the new ones... now they look like every other bike.

Thrillride (Sep 12, 2009 at 7:46)

this is the Glory guys....

the-k-man (Sep 12, 2009 at 9:19)

how could you possibly say the old faiths looked better, and it's normal for a frame manufacturers frames to look similar because usually they all use the same technology. i think the new giants look sick especially the faith, much cleaner looking than the old ones

Kornowski (Sep 12, 2009 at 9:35) (Below Threshold)

I'm not stupid, I know it's a Glory. I was saying it looks a lot like the new Faith, not the old one. 'how could you possibly say the old faiths looked better'. If you read a few comments up, you'll be able to see my say it again. Then if you read it again, I'll say it again.

morewhitenoise (Sep 12, 2009 at 14:53) (Below Threshold)

i really hope thats not the stock colour scheme, its so boring!

Rideslots (Sep 12, 2009 at 15:07)

I like.

pwngemn (Oct 17, 2009 at 20:39) (Below Threshold)

just to clear things up, this is the 2010 faith, not the glory... look it up

jordilunn101 (Oct 17, 2009 at 22:29)

how come it says glory on the frame then??

jordilunn101 (Oct 18, 2009 at 12:55)

Thank you, some sense ...or vision

pwngemn (Oct 23, 2009 at 9:46)

ok nvm the frames are like the same for faith and glory, i didn't know they changed the frame of the 2010 glory, my bad ur right

crankhog (Sep 3, 2009 at 14:01)

I want the frame.

melonhead1145 (Sep 5, 2009 at 15:01)

i should be getting the frame for Xmas, partly paid for by myself. cant wait

crankhog (Sep 5, 2009 at 15:09)

It's £1750 this year so I'll have to save hard for a while and sell my old one

crankhog (Sep 5, 2009 at 15:10)

I've ridden one aswell there nice

melonhead1145 (Sep 6, 2009 at 12:51)

sweet, i know about the price, i know there super light and fast, really stoked on getting mine (hopefully)

mustbike (Sep 12, 2009 at 0:11)

dude the old ones look cooler and are pretty much the same.

mkirk05 (Sep 12, 2009 at 0:31)

other then the 4 pounds dropped off the frame haha

melonhead1145 (Sep 12, 2009 at 1:20)

the old ones do look cooler, but this one is so much lighter

dhzac (Sep 12, 2009 at 0:35)

treck wana b :Lol

dhzac (Sep 12, 2009 at 16:00)

yh but it does look a bit like a treck tbf

KonaStinkyKid100 (Sep 12, 2009 at 10:43)

looks exactly like a session but thats because trek and giant share alot of their designs there also the only two brands that have bontrager components

betterthansx (Sep 12, 2009 at 10:58)

where do you see bontrager parts on a giant? giant actually uses name brand parts to cut costs whereas Trek uses their own house company to cut costs. Giant would use a Mavic 729 rather than a 823 to cut costs, and Trek will put a Big Earl or something rim that must just be spanish for tacho

KonaStinkyKid100 (Sep 14, 2009 at 16:03)

sorry i got mixed up garry fisher and trek use bontrager the session is a 4 bar linkage too only the swingarm is longer and there is a reinforcement where the toptube and seat tube meet the top tube also dips near the seatube junctoin and it looks like the giant has a tapered head tube and they both have alot of saint stuff

lexx (Oct 7, 2009 at 0:15)

if u guys didn't know giant has been doing tapered headtubes for YEARS there were just never forks made for them. Then all of a sudden when trek does it everyone's like "wow".

nicolai-helius-freerider (Sep 12, 2009 at 16:14)

dunno if i like :S

gromhit (Sep 13, 2009 at 9:14)

i like!

mctwist (Sep 13, 2009 at 22:16)

*zzzzzzzzzz

dtl-hartail-rider (Sep 16, 2009 at 4:11)

looks like a trek 88

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chazdog (Sep 12, 2009 at 0:57)

and the old glory looked soo gooood. but i suppose you wont see much of it when your riding it. the people at giant who made this are clearly following the 'how ugly can we make our new products range' and seein if people still buy them.

Mazekwon (Sep 12, 2009 at 9:33)

or how can we shave 4lbs off the frame??? i think it looks nice, not a HUGE DH RIG, but still fully capable so why not,

chazdog (Sep 12, 2009 at 15:26)

woop woop neg props for pointing out the bikes an uggo. i just hate the way the rear triangle is almost bigger then the front, lapieere, mondraker, rage etc all make light bikes that still look pretty, and are smaller companies. tho specialized are huge too and the new big hit is also an uggo

mkirk05 (Sep 12, 2009 at 23:04)

Mazekwon, did you not notice the face the shock doesnt have that massive chunk of metal in the middle where the shock used to go through, and they just took off a bunch of excess material that made the bike overdone and overweight.

Mazekwon (Sep 13, 2009 at 7:11)

yeha i saw taht, i didn't like that on the old ones, something about your shock pertruding by your BB makes me seem uneasy for some reason