Giant Bowery?
 

My LBS today said that Giant's contribution to the ss/fixie craze will be coming out in two weeks.
I believe it's called the Bowery, and is set up similar to the Langster - freewheel, 2 brakes - but that is also comes with fixed cog and lockring on the flip side of the hub.

Anyone have any specs?
Pictures?

giant does and has for some time made a track frame, they just don't do a lot of marketing for it.

here's a link http://www.giant-bicycles.com/us/035....asp?range=250

check out the omnium

Yep, they have TCR level track frames in the UK: http://www.giant-bicycle.com/uk/030....sp?model=10322

They are supposed to bring out a carbon track frame this year also..though not in the US.

EDIT: Beat me to the punch!!!

It says "first ever track frame set."

that doesn't look too terribly bad. i wouldn't ride it around town, though. hell no.

That seems pretty high-end.
My LBS made it out to be an entry level bike, a la the Langster.
And he called it the Bowery.

probably something new, then. probably not out yet, no pics...hmm. giant's decent. but i'm not a fan of the langster...i mean...2 brakes? freewheel? what?

I'm not a fan of the Langster either, but am always curious to new frame options.

yeah, no doubt. i'll say that i'm interested to see how it turns out as well.

yea, gokiburi saw the Giant Track frameset when he was in Japan.
It was all decked out in suberbe stuff.
It looks a lot cooler in Yellow.
If only it was avalible in america.

http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment...achmentid=3618
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http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.p...postcount=6336

i've never understood the sloping top tubes.

less material- less weight...

... stiffer frame as well. Stiffer out of the saddle, I dunno if the long post can flex when you're seated. It's still ugly on a road/track bike.

that looks road bike to me...locked next to a track bike.
Giant track bike's been available in UK for a while, lots of trackies use them, and know a courier who rides it as well.

Here's a link to the Bowery on Giant's site...probably came up in the last couple of days:

http://www.giantbicycles.com/us/030....sp?model=11345

Looks kinda meh (and I'm a fan of Giant)...

huh...the sloping TT looks weird, but i guess if it's lighter and stiffer..but i wonder by how much?

huh, well at least i know now. someday maybe i'll want a kickass racing bike and won't care about aesthetics, but for now they're both things i take into consideration. sort of. i mean, my bike's not purty, but some paint and new tape and tires....yeah.

"Built for the professional messenger, the Bowery is Giant's ultra-refined, single speed city bike."


Suuuuuuure. How many messengers did it take for Giant to roll production on a courier-specific line? A few thousand? They're all buying Giants. Definitely.

well, they did say "the professional messenger". singular.

I know that messenger too...

http://www.messenger.com.pl/rico_giant.jpg
I don't like big aluminium tubes, but that bike is nice... and light (i think less than 6kg)

What do you get when you cross a Pista and a Langster?
http://www.giantbicycles.com/images/...ver%20copy.jpg

the geometry on that...

anyhow, in the first pic, the bike actually looked sort of nice. doesn't look at all like the one in the second pic, though.

ow!

Those two bikes aren't nearly the same, are they? The one the guy is holding up doesn't have a dramatically sloping top tube and has a weird angled seattube. That one looks nice, but the chrome... Ouch.

i think the first picture is the track bike, not the bowery