2016 Giant Trance 27.5 SX Bike

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I have had this ride for a year now. The wedding rush is gone but my bride still rocks.

Out of the box the bike was great but as I got to know it and pushed more I found some faults.

>The tires just sucked. Unpredictable and the rough, rocky, rooted texas rides destroyed them in no time. Slipped on some Cross-max and it was sorted.

>Then the chain guide broke. Went with a RF Narrow wide and have no issues at all. Why did they not spec it like this?

>The fork took some time to "break in" but once it did and I got the tuning wired...nice.

The rest of the bike, though low end (SLX, Deore) works great still. It climbs, eats miles of trail and loves a good flowie decent. On the other hand it does not like tight turns. The rakish head angle can push pretty easy on tight turns, more-so on climbs. I have found that if I drop the TALAS for to the low end it steepens the head angle and it does turn better in the tight...a little.

Outside of that, after a year and 2500 trail miles, a set of grips, a few sets of tires, a chain ring. Thats it. Don't think I will swap it out any time soon.