By using Giant's unique Meta Composite to guarantee the perfect balance between rigidity, weight and ride quality, this race bred range is all about fast handling and finish line sprints. Ask Oli Beckingsale how his shiny silver Commonwealth medal is.

FRAME TECHNOLOGY

Straight out of Giant's C-tech factory you can rest assured that your hand made carbon XtC frame has the essentials to provide you with lightning fast cross-country responsiveness.

FRAME XTC formulaOne Composite
SIZES S/17"
COLOR White / Black

With headset

In a world flooded with composite technology, Giant's legendary fO Composite process stands alone. Born over eighteen years ago in Giant's own Taiwan-based "Techno Centre" engineering lab, Meta Composite continues to improve through Giant's exhaustive materials research, state-of-the-art manufacturing development and world-class field testing.

fO Composite is Giant's proprietary composite technology, developed to achieve a superior balance between the three things serious riders hold in the highest regard: stiffness, light weight and ride quality. It's a difficult juggling act to keep these three elements in perfect harmony. Get it wrong and you'll end up with a bike that's too flexy, too harsh, or too heavy. Get it right, and you'll have a bike that accelerates like a rocket, efficiently transfers energy and soaks up performance-robbing vibration for all-day comfort.

What makes fO Composite stand out from the other "me-too" composite technologies currently on the market is that Giant - and Giant alone - controls the entire process start to finish, from the countless field-testing hours, to the meticulous engineering conducted by Giant's own engineering staff, to the hand lay-up of composite frames at the Giant C-Tech factory. Giant is proud that it can pass fO Composite on to the rider who demands a lighter, laterally stiffer and more vertically compliant ride from their bicycle.

It's these improvements that enable Giant to craft the best-performing composite bicycles on and off the road. fO Composite's superior performance begins with bare carbon thread and ends in an entirely handmade frame constructed of strategically layered, Uni-Directional (UD) carbon. At Giant, this combination of painstaking process and a proprietary material selection is more than just materials and technology - it's a promise of superior quality and performance that no other major brand can make. That's the fO Composite promise.

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