Giant Glory Review: Versatile Or Conflicted? | 2024 Downhill Bike Field Test
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- The new Glory, on paper, is a pragmatic yet ambitious bike; either wheel size, integrated reach adjustment headsets, chainstay adjustment... plus a slew of other great smaller features but what did our testers think? And how did it ride out on the trail of the Whistler Bike Park?
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I can't remember Pinkbike trashing a bike this much.
They also trashed the cube two 2 years ago
Really weird
Why would you set fork height the same on all bikes in the test? It's an adjustment that you should be changing to get comfortable on a bike, just like clickers, sag, etc. Would have been interesting to hear where you ended up with the fork height on each bike to get an idea of what might work best on that model.
It would be great if PB did a review of the new GT Fury. It's one of the downhill bikes that almost no one is talking about.
no doubt, When I ride Windrock and other Southeast US parks, this is almost the only bike I see!
@a7000x I saw a ton of them at the Whistler bike park the other week. Great looking bike.
They snap but are sick
Seems like Giant have over engineered their bike without knowing what the sum of its parts would be.
To go so deep into adjustable linkages flip chips, reach adjust, etc. without offering an angle adjust headset screams that the consumer is not the target audience of this bike. I have to imagine the added complexity of the adjustable components added significantly to the cost of the bike, and why they felt the need to skimp on items like the rotors.
Its quite a shame in my mind, because the Glory was the definitive privateer bike of the late '00s and '10s, and Giant has built their brand on offering good value for privateer atheletes and enthusiasts across nearly every discipline. It feels like this update is major departure from that philosophy.
The Glory advanced is something most fitting riders that know how to setup the bike. It took me two days to get my baseline and just been loving the bike. I ride mainly steep tech. Never used the oem wheels but managed to kill a Ethirteen carbon rear wheel. Still running carbon now but with lower Spoke tension.
Jesus Christ that rig is looking good!
The single most ridiculously priced downhill bike on the market. And it's a giant.
I can not, under any circumstances, come up with an idea what they were thinking when this bike and its price tag were approved.
Pinkbike is never getting another Giant to review ever again 😂😂😂
I also have a feeling that Maestro hasn't kept up with with the updates that other VPP bikes have done... i.e. Santa Cruz, DW 6, ABP
Feeling or experience?
@@maciej_ma Saying Giant hasn't done that much to their kinematics... the first Trance X was like a long legged Trance 29, just adding 25MM to 140MM and wasn't great.
@@vrwgq3q if you are talking about 2021 model, it really depends on the level of the build. Trance X 1 with Fox Performance suspension is the best trail bike for riding downhill...
It sounds like Giant said "we have to do something" but they did not really care what they did. For the intermediate rider getting into DH is not going to or should not be buying an 8k+ DH bike.
@@dhrracer I feel like Giant should make spoons. Much simpler
interesting... I guess "stack" height is hard to adjust other than bars themselves being that crown to fork is going to be pretty much max with a 40 or Boxxer and a direct mount stem.
Thanks for another DH bike review. Now please test Saracen MYST 2024
Ah man I'd absolutely love to see this tested it looks like one of the best made bikes out there this year.
Review Knolly Delirium!
Honestly we need to see progression curves , anti squat and rise, then compare these with other bikes there is good software that PB should be using. This would strengthen their comments
I have one and it works. I ride it as full 29. The only thing that needs time is the suspension setup. The wheels i have changed stright out of the box 11 months ago.
Why didn’t you test it with a 29” back wheel as well, rather than just speculating.
Got one seems a lot better than what they are saying it is. Is it my favourite no but definitely up there. Way better than the slander pb gave it
The flaw w maestro is the lower link , it wants to snap back to its original position during travel cycle, zero square edge absorption.
Geo aside, would be interesting to see if a change in shock (even to another of the same type) would have altered the rear suspension behaviour. Given the evolution rather than revolution, seems strange the performance would be so inconsistent. Almost sounds like shock issue rather than frame issue. Maybe????
Sounds like the Giant IS actually good at one thing...being too expensive!
They were trying to revive the Old Amazing ATX ONE AND TWO DH TEAM I still have one!
I think a lot of people lose sight of what's important. I ride a 2017 Glory, I didn't buy it because it has race wins, or perfect specs. I bought it because its tough, its fun, it asks very little, and gives back so much. When I screw up it saves my ass, its not a razors edge bike, its a park bike for a weekend warrior. Unless you are a top tier rider, you are wasting time on the semantics. Watch any whistler bike check and see guys running ancient 27, 26, inch bikes who are totally in love with their smaller, nimble, bomb proof bikes and you start to realize that we are all just splitting hairs here.
I went with the Demo and love it, the Glory seemed pretty basic in terms of suspension design plus who on earth wants a head angle that slack? Bike geometry has gone too far.
Giant says that, in their own testing, deore rt-66 rotors dissipate heat better than xt rt-86. I have no idea if true, obviously not what Shimano says about ice-tech…
Giant has always been too low in the front end in my opinion. I always felt like i was going over the bars but if you unweight the front it feels like they want to wash out
agreed
Can you please do the santa cruz v10.8?
I would suggest increasing the fork offset
Giant went for the Donut glory with this one but overshot the slack HA a bit
I really want a glory. Bliss👌👌❤️❤️jean and Ross 🇬🇧
Thank you for your honesty. Sounds like garbage, who designs these
Honesty has left the pinkbike chat awhile ago 😂😂😂
They hit the targets they want to but don't say a word about obvious trash their preferred brands put out.
While maybe not the stellar review Giant was hoping for but damn it’s sexy as hell.
The Review sounds like Giant is paying to less advertising at Pinkbike. Or all review on PB are sponsored by Trek.
I have a giant reign and haven't used it properly yet no where to to use it. The woods have a concrete pavement in the middle of it
Giants wheels have always been soft as 💩. I brought my nephew a 2020 reign and he put 2 dents in the rear and 1 in the front on his first ride out, and it wasn't even a rough track. For £8k+ that bike needs DT swiss FR at the minimum.
I don't trust pinkbike but I don't trust Giant either as a previous owner.
Lose lose type of situation...
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Spent a day at Snoqualmie bike park on this bike because I’m looking to buy a new gravity sled. Granted I’m not all that fast but I’ve ridden quite a few DH bikes over the years. It was very harsh and not all that predictable. I think they hit this review on the head. It’s a great price for the spec except the rims but I’ll be buying a different bike for sure. Not impressed at all.
read between the lines: THIS BIKE IS FOR NO ONE
All those flip chips and they still got it wrong.
Too slack. Front/Rear center ratio would be way off. BB not low enough even in low mode. Kinematics that would be ok on a trail bike.
Are we going to see the GT Fury in this test?
@@KoenGriess no
Giant: the company that tries to make it look like they are California based. It’s one confused company that I wish would go away.
Looks good 😢
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Sounds like giant put modern geo on a 10 year old suspension design like how transition did
This is the WORST downhill bike on the market, it took 2 rides for the rocket link to snap, and they take months for warranties. I broke 2 frames and then they blacklisted me from their warranty process. 3/10.
They use super low grade carbon, it’s a xc bike that has 200mm of travel.
Why does giant make bikes
Cant tell tbh
Because they can. Stupid question, stupid answer 😂
Because that's their entire business?
@@comeridewithmeAE if I suck at fucking, would I make fucking my entire business?
Because their previous beanstalk business wasn't growing?
Does anyone actually swap their wheel sizes about? Choose your wheelsize and get a decent bike that goes with it and ride the fucker….otherwise you have a bike that isn’t actually either!!!!
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As someone who worked in a shop that sold Giants. Don’t buy one past 2012.
Why?
I have one. Works ok.
Hi I’m first 😂😂😂
Hi,nobody cares.
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@@Nozes.. ok idc
@@pip163pix next time I will be or I will quit utube and move back to Mexico
Hi,im second
Nope the guy who replied who cares to the guy who said I'm first was second and also who cares