Giant Contend SL1 Disc - Generic - Awesome

Posted on Fri 6th, April 2018

• #1

roadwarrior
So I was looking for a decent winter roadie to replace my comedy cheap China alloy sora thing I have at the moment - I work for a Giant dealer so got hold of one of these in my size on clearance for 400£.

Pretty Generic/promuter so far - but at its heart frame is decent alu, 105 partial groupset, and the reviews are solid. Also endurance headtube means slammage will occur.

1 Attachment
• #2

roadwarrior
Amazing photoshop mock-up of what I think I can achieve

1 Attachment
• #3

roadwarrior
Some black electrical tape and a hairdryer to the wheel stickers later

1 Attachment
• #4

BernardRenault

so slammed it cut your brake cable!
• #5

roadwarrior in reply to @BernardRenault

Mad photoshop skills
• #6

roadwarrior

This is heavy AF at the moment - 9.7 kilos with some borrowed wattbike spd/look keo pedals on that must be 500g on there own.

I think with proper pedals, changing the weird hydro/cable converter to spyres , proper 105 chainset , decent saddle /bars stem I can lose a kilo - eventually new wheels prob another half a kilo
• #7

roadwarrior

Unfortunately no 650b potential as clearance to tight at the back

Post a reply
- Bold
- Italics
- Link
- Image
- List
- Quote
- code
- Preview
Formatting Help

Don't worry about formatting, just type in the text and we'll take care of making sense of it. We will auto-convert links, and if you put asterisks around words we will make them bold.

Tips:

Create headers by underlining text with ==== or ----

To *italicise* text put one asterisk each side of the word

To **bold** text put two asterisks each side of the word

Embed images by entering:
![](https://www.google.co.uk/images/srpr/logo4w.png)
That's the hard one: exclamation, square brackets and then the URL to the image in brackets.

* Create lists by starting lines with asterisks

1. Create numbered lists by starting lines with a number and a dot

> Quote text by starting lines with >

Mention another user by @username

For syntax highlighting, surround the code block with three backticks:

```
Your code goes here
```
Just like Github, a blank line must precede a code block.

If you upload more than 5 files we will display all attachments as thumbnails.

For a full reference visit the Markdown syntax.