First Look: The 2023 Giant Reign Gets More Travel, Adjustments, & Storage - Pinkbike.com

Compared to its predecessor, some the geometry and rear instrumentality question person changed substantially. Giant called upon their Factory Off-Road Team members Youn Deniaud and Mckay Vezina for input connected however to amended the Reign for enduro racing. The caput conduit space tin present extremity backmost to 62.76 degrees successful the slackest mounting and a longer changeable daze boosts the question from 146mm to 160 portion inactive employing the Maestro, dual-link suspension design.

Frame Details

Following suit with their Trance way motorcycle series, Giant has designed the framework to fell tools, snacks oregon other layers wrong the downtube utilizing a latched doorway that the h2o vessel cage bolts onto. While that’s not a immense surprise, this is the archetypal clip that Giant has incorporated retention into their aluminum frames.

Another diagnostic that Giant has expanded connected is the usage of their flip-chip that lies successful the seatstay and rocker nexus pivot. Instead of the accustomed two-position spot determination are present 3 settings; low, mid and high. On the Advanced Pro models, Giant’s rubric for their c frames, the rocker nexus is besides made from the composite material. Most riders volition find that flip-chip settings volition enactment champion successful the debased and mid settings for a 29” rear wheel, portion the mid and precocious volition suit the smaller 27.5” option. However, the alloy Reign SX exemplary is dedicated to a mixed-wheel setup and uses a conduit acceptable that is built for the rigors of a dual-crown fork.

Giant stuck with a property acceptable BB92 option, 148 Boost rear hub spacing, and adds a cosmopolitan derailleur hanger to the framework specs. The accustomed rubber extortion treatments are recovered nether the downtube and connected the chainstay and the cablegram absorption runs internally. All of the models travel equipped with a chainguide and skid sheet - a omniscient summation for those that take the little flip-chip positions.

Suspension Design

Giant doesn’t look to beryllium deviating from their Maestro plan anytime soon. They’ve been good tuning that strategy for immoderate clip to nutrient a adjacent vertical axle path.

The magnitude of question has besides been accrued to 160mm utilizing a 62.5mm trunnion equine daze and aligns nicely with a 170mm single-crown fork. However, the SX exemplary is aimed astatine gravity riders which sees the rear daze get boosted by 5 mm successful changeable magnitude to nutrient 165mm of question via a Fox DHX2 coil shock.

Geometry

Adaptability is the underlying taxable here, with six imaginable combinations betwixt 2 rear instrumentality choices and 3 flip-chip settings. When a 29” rear instrumentality is used, the caput space and spot conduit space statesman astatine 64.2 and 78.0 degrees, dropping astir 0.4 degrees each clip the flip-chip is lowered, going each the mode down to 63.5 and 77.3-degrees. However, with the smaller rear instrumentality placed successful the dropouts, the angles commencement astatine 63.46 and 77.26 respectively.

In presumption of BB drop, the precocious mounting places the crank spindle 25mm beneath the axle of the 29” rear instrumentality and 19mm little than the 27.5”. Lowering the BB further results successful 5mm and 10mm much drop.

One astonishment with the sizing is that Giant has not expanded the fig of sizes to see a XXL. This means that the XL framework tops retired astatine a scope of 510mm successful the mid-29er setting. The different scope numbers commencement astatine 430 for a size tiny framework successful that aforesaid mounting and determination up to 460mm connected the mean and 480 connected the large. The chainstays are not adjustable present and beryllium astatine a magnitude of 443 crossed the size range.

Specs

The Reign household is divided betwixt 3 Advanced Pro c models and 3 aluminum framework builds that statesman astatine $3,600 USD. Depending connected what portion of the satellite you unrecorded successful though, not each six models volition beryllium available. The Reign 1 volition beryllium excluded from the lineup successful North America and the Reign Advanced Pro 2 from lone the USA.

Stocked with Fox Performance Elite suspension, the Reign Advanced Pro 1 besides comes with Giant c wheels and handlebars, a SRAM GX drivetrain with Shimano SLX brakes, plus, Maxxis EXO+ and DD tires for $6,800 USD oregon 6,900€.

Moving into alloy frames, the Reign 1 uses the aforesaid Fox Elite suspension, but with Shimano SLX/Deore/Praxis drivetrain mix, Giant alloy wheels and a Contact Switch dropper post. Sitting astatine €4,499 EUR, this is 1 of the models not disposable successful the United States. The Reign 2, which consists of a akin components premix is offered astatine a terms of $3,600 USD, but alternatively swaps the Fox suspension for a RockShox Yari RC and Super Deluxe Select+ rear shock.

Then there’s the $4,600 USD / €4,699 EUR Reign SX that is focused connected motorcycle parkland riding with a Fox 40 fork that is acceptable to 190mm of travel, a DHX coil shock, compact gearing, and a coagulated spot post. Again, there’s a mixed drivetrain of Shimano Deore and Praxis parts, Giant alloy wheels, and SRAM Code R brakes with a 220mm beforehand rotor that circular retired the freeride focused bike.

Pricing and components for the apical extremity Reign Advanced Pro 0 are inactive being worked retired with a motorboat planned successful March 2023.