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After 4 months of hassling Giant, I finally have my TCX SLR 2! It will be used mainly for my 30mile daily commute all year round, with a few weekenders chucked in. First impressions are that it is awesome, especially coming from my Super-Franken-Sirrus. Mostly 105 and Spyres for under a grand is quite impressive and they don't seem to have obviously skimped elsewhere.
One of my main worries was the D-fuse seatpost, but apparently this is moving to the Defy range next year as well, so there may be more choice available in the future.
The "tank slap" you get from the internal cables surprised me, although I guess that's just something that happens with internals. Pulling them back out the front a bit seems to have quietened them down though.
The guy in the shop tried to give me the seatpost rack adapter without any spacers, and told me to just piggy-back it on the current one. My brain said that would be stupid, so made him find the original one in the packaging, lo and behold, there were two little spacers in there.
Anyway, will report back when I've put more than 20 miles into it, though seems like a winner at the moment!