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You make me laugh!
Would a Giant Bikes verified frame number, letter of authenticity and other paperwork and boxes from Giant stating TCR-100 go any way to proving its not a fake? As someone who owns a number of other 'actual' ONCE team issue/used bikes...I am very picky.

This bike was ordered from Giant and owned by a member of Beacon Wheelers cycling team for many years. He sold it to the person I bought it from. I have email evidence confirming all of this.

I'll give you 1 point for the fact that the Planet X Pro does look similar. From memory, I think they used to buy and re-brand a lot of Prorace frames from Belgium, as did Dolan. I would say it is quite sad that Planet X are basically selling Giant's 19-year old frame design (thank you Mike Burrows et al.) bar a few tweaks in 2020. That is not progress or evolution.

If you care to take a look in Giant's back catalogue of composite frames including the gold plated 2002 edition and the subsequent 2003 editions, the frame design is the same across all of them. Same DNA.

Back Page (https://issuu.com/giant_italia/docs/catalogo_giant_2002_ita)
(https://issuu.com/giant_italia/docs/catalogo_giant_2004_ita)

I'll humor you for 1-minute.
How easy is it to find a set of 19-year old un-used Campagnolo Bora carbon wheelset with correct period & specification tubular tyres?
How easy is it to find a mint un-used AX Lightness saddle correct for the period
How easy is it to find a NOS 19-year old Campagnolo Record Groupset
How easy is it to reproduce 2 water bottles with appropriate graphics
How easy is it to source a Giant TCR composite frame, strip it back to nude carbon, remove all blemishes, re-produce a large number of tiny stickers on all parts of the bike from a scant amount of archive photos, then heavily lacquer to produce the finished article