2011 Giant Factory Off-road Team presented in Santa Barbara

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The 2011 Giant Factory Off-Road Team (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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Duncan Riffle (Giant Factory Off-Road Team) on a descent — Duncan Riffle (Giant Factory Off-Roa♊d ꦿTeam) on a descent (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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Andrew Neethling (Giant Factory Off-Road Team) (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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Andrew Neethling rides downhill (Giant Factory Off-Road Team) — Andrew Neethꦓling rides downhill (🌳Giant Factory Off-Road Team) (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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British Olympian Liam Killeen is new to the Giant Factory Off-Road Team — British Olympian Liam Killeen is new to the 💝Giant Factory Off-Road Team (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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Giant Anthem, Giant XtC and Giant Glory bikes will be used by the Giant Factory Off-Road Team — Giant Anthem, Giant XtC and Giant Glory bike𒁃s will be used by th♏e Giant Factory Off-Road Team (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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Andrew Juskaitis introduces veteran team member Carl Decker (Giant Factory Off-Road Team) — Andrew Juskaitis introduces veteran team member Carl Decker (Giant Factory Off-R🍬oad Team) (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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Carl Decker's salmon-colored footware was admired by the attendees — Carl Decker's salmon-color🍷ed footware was admired💖 by the attendees (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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Giant racers and staff talk to the media at the team presentation — Giant racers and staff talk to the media at the team p🦄resentation (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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British Downhiller Danny Hart (Giant Factory Off-Road Team) — British Downhiller Danny Hart (Giant Factory Off-Road🌜 T🐻eam) (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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Danny Hart (Giant Factory Off-Road Team) is looking forward to the World Cup season. — Danny Hart (♑Giant Factory Off-Road Team) is looking forwardꦆ to the World Cup season. (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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Kelli Emmett (Giant Factory Off-Road Team) (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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Kelli Emmett (Giant Factory Off-Road Team) can ride singletrack fast. — Kelli Emmett (Giant Fꦰactory Off-𝓡Road Team) can ride singletrack fast. (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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Carl Decker (Giant Factory Off-Road Team) (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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Carl Decker speeds through some California singletrack at the Giant Factory Off-Road Team camp — Carl Decker speeds through some California singꦦletrack at the Giant F𝓰actory Off-Road Team camp (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

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Duncan Riffle (Giant Factory Off-Road Team) got to attend the team's presentation in his hometown of Santa Barbara, California — Duncan Riffle (Giant Factory Off-Road Team) got to attend the 🐈team's presentation in♐ his hometown of Santa Barbara, California (Image credit: Jake Orness (Giant Bicycle))

The 2011 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giant Factory Off-Road Team was presented poolside in Santa Barbara, California, on Thursday night. With the addition of two new riders, including top World Cup contenders in downhill and cross country, the team will field i🐽ts strongest line-up to date. South African downhill Andrew Neethlin🌜g and British cross country racer Liam Killeen join British downhiller Danny Hart and three Americans: downhiller Duncan Riffle and veteran cross country stars Carl Decker and Kelli Emmett. All the riders, except for Killeen, who is training for the first World Cup in South Africa, attended the launch.

"We value the professional riders' feedback to do product development. We can't just do that with cross country riders, we can't just do that with a downhill team. So we bring those✅ athletes together on one team. This the first time we have an all encompassing team - cross country racers, downhillers, four crossers. It will drive product development, and we didn't want to sell any category short."

"For the first time, we allowed them to generate their dream schedule. In other years, we threw the schedule at them and said 'go get 'em tiger'. We didn't do that this year. We said to them: 'you've been on the team a long time, you've done all the traditional 🥃races, what do you want to do differently this year? ' They picked the events and told us what they wanted to do and what the෴y could win - maybe they did them before, maybe not."

New addition and British Olympian Killeen will be a regular at cross country World Cups as he strives toward a 2012 London Olympics goal - it would be his third Olympic Games. Giant also sponsors a full UCI elite-registered cross country team based out of Europe, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Rabobank G🦹iant Off-Road Team, presented last week in the Net𓆏herlands. The team includes former Giant Factory team racer Adam Crai൲g and new signing Katie Compton.

Sue George is an editor at Cyclingnews.ꦆ She coordinates all of the site's mountain bike race coverage and assists with the road, 'cross and track coverage.