Used exclusively throughout our 2009 full-composite bicycles, Advanced Composite Technology helps produce the lightest, stiffest and most ride-tuned bicycles on and off the road.

Advanced Composite Technology was developed to achieve the ultimate balance between the three things performance-minded riders hold in the highest regard: stiffness, light weight and ride quality. It's a difficult task 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 the balance right, and you'll have a bike that accelerates like a missile, efficiently transfers energy and soaks up performance-robbing vibration for all-day comfort.

What makes Advanced Composite Technology 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 Advanced Composite Technology 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 bestperforming road and mountain composite bicycles.

Advanced Composite Technology'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.

A. The highest-performance carbon raw material
B. Breakthrough construction techniques

A. Performance-level carbon raw material
B. State-of-the-art construction techniques