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Part 1 - Giant's 2007 line-up

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Published 11 October 2006

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Europe's media hang on to (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

How did that get up there? (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

ace Giant wrencher William Hebing (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

The Trance and its Maestro rear-suspension (Image credit: Ben Atkins)

The 2007 Glory Zero (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

Welcome to Madrid - Lolita meets and greets us at the Airport. (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

Rune Hoydhal checks over one of the new Trances (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

Europe's media hang on to Giant Training Manager David Ward's every word! (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

David Ward takes us through the new TCR Composite Advanced (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

David Ward explains the principles behind the new shaped tubes on the 2007 TCRs (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

ace Giant wrencher William Hebing puts my TCR Alliance together (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

How did that get up there? The 2007 TCR Composite Advanced in its T-Mobile livery (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

The 2007 TCR Composite admiring a nice old Spanish Castle (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

The Giant stand at Festibike 2007 (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

The Glory Zero's massive half inch headset allows a single crown fork to be used (Image credit: Bastiaan Heus)

A brace of Trinity Zeros. Built for speed! (Image credit: Ben Atkins/Cyclingnews)

A nice line of off-road Giants - Trances in the foreground, Anthems behind (Image credit: Ben Atkins/Cyclingnews)

The 2007 T-Mobile TCR Composite Advanced (Image credit: Ben Atkins/Cyclingnews)

New Giant graphics on the new shaped downtube (Image credit: Ben Atkins/Cyclingnews)

The new TCR Alliance, Carbon on the top, Aluminium on the bottom. (Image credit: Ben Atkins/Cyclingnews)

My Alliance, waiting for a longer stem and some pedals... (Image credit: Ben Atkins/Cyclingnews)

The Trance and its Maestro rear-suspension system. 4.2 inches of plush-ness (Image credit: Ben Atkins/Cyclingnews)

A lightly dusted Trance (after I've fallen off it a couple of times!) (Image credit: Ben Atkins/Cyclingnews)

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