In a similar position looking at getting my first TT bike. Any tips on finding the Ultegra di2 TT groupset? Seem to only come up with road setup and then would have to pull the base + aero shifters.

The giant trinity is a complete piece of shit.

This is your opinion and not in any way shape or form based on fact.

Though since were on you and pieces of shit -
What about this line of bikes makes them so?

Since you asked...I'll start with the front end and work my way back.

1) The front brake: horrible. Why bicycle manufacturers continue to use that TRP trash is beyond me. Just put the damn thing in front of the fork. We've already seen from the latest ERO data that the Omega X in front of the IAx fork is faster than no brake at all. Think about that, and then try to tell me I should have that awful thing behind the fork.

2) The BTA aero bottle: shit. The thing doesn't stay on the bike. Since it doesn't stay on the bike, you can just go with another BTA setup, right? Wrong. The way that dumb, unpolished curved stem sticks its neck up into the extension area makes it impossible to configure a bottle properly if you run a low stack. Could they have added two properly spaced M4 threads so that I can just use my own cage in between the extensions? Of course they could have, but they are exceptionally stupid, so they didn't.

3) The cable routing: awful. Even with electrical tape and heat shrink enforcement, the act of steering the front end is tearing up e-tube cables. (Of course, if you're some type of peasant and don't use electronic shifting, this isn't an issue for you -- though you have larger issues).

4) The rest of the front end also sucks. If I haven't mentioned it, it's still terrible. The stock extensions, the pads, the shitty exposed bolts...it's all a failure.

5) The bento box: useless. The thing doesn't have the capacity to hold two gus, it's so small. It does a fairly good job of hiding the 5 port junction, but it doesn't matter because I can't shift since the front end already chewed through all my e tubes. If you can't figure out how to do this right, just put some M4 threads on the top tube!

6) The aero frame bottle: abysmal. What's the problem? You guessed it: the thing doesn't stay on the bike.

I'm getting tired...but I also hate the rear brake and pretty much everything else. The color schemes on the men's models are all awful, except the black one, which is of course the UCI legal model. The Liv color schemes are quite attractive, but of course nothing is truly becoming on such a shitty bike.

So this is a triathlon bike in the works for years from the world's largest (by far) bicycle company, and we are told that the thing has been engineered with CFD analysis and all the works--but yet there is no white paper, no aero data, and not even a fit guide or coordinates to the pad to facilitate sizing...I am spending $7200 and I can't figure out what size I need without backing into the pad stack and reach I can hit using the world's worst superbike front end (edit: Giant has just recently added the pad coordinates, but it wasn't there for launch). Hell, even Diamondback got most of these pieces right, and they sell product at Dick's. Ventum seems downright analytical in comparison.

In general, it continues to piss me off that some arrogant asshole living in the suburbs of Denver can product high end bicycle components that not only blow the doors off the products delivered by the largest companies in the industry, but further that we as customers are forced to line his pockets because of everyone else's failure. Except that Giant managed to produce a product so shitty that I can't even make it work properly with Tririg's obscenely overpriced parts.

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/?post=6019969#p6019969


And yes, I'll be your tri friend if you don't do away with one of the best TT bikes on the market for one of the worst, simply because you don't know how to purchase large fans and drape a towel over your bike on the trainer. That is a ridiculously dumb reason to eschew a Speed Concept.

The others do not even belong in the same conversation. I think the edge goes to the IA for ease of travel / maintenance, substitution potential for components, and paint job. Of course, I can't understand why you would go with mechanical if you had $4k to spend on a new bike. Just by the IAx frameset ($2500), add Ultegra di2 w/ base bar shifters ($1000), a fast after market front end ($200), and an Omega X brakeset ($300). Done.