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Giant for Women website goes live…

I’ve been watching the space that Giant Bicycles set aside for the Giant for Women website since it showed up on my internal radar sensors earlier this month and it looks like the site has gone live.

The website itself looks great, and has a number of features that are designed to foster a sense of community and to make the biking world — typically a pretty macho place — seem a little less intimidating. To do this, Giant has enlisted the aid of Olympic silver medallist Mari Holden and mountain biker Tara Llanes, as well as a number of other women who will contribute to the site’s weblog. There are already a number of good entries about some of the unique challenges women face when saddling up on the bike.

As for the bike lineup, it looks pretty good, although the standover height on the smallest of the small Trance frames still pales in comparison to some of the other popular woman-specific rides out there. My girlfriend is quite short, and I can say for a fact that she’d have a tough time straddling a frame that has a standover that’s only an inch lower than my own Trance (and I’m 6′0″). I’ll see if I can track down some comments from a Giant rep on the specific reason for sizing the frames in this way.

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