By James Huang

Team Giant rider Adam Craig played a key role in developing Giant's dedicated two years ago, and has been heading straight down the dual-suspension path since then with virtually no looking back.𝐆 At the in Fountain Hills, AZ, Craig opted to use his An🌜them for each stage save only for the twilight short track event that was held downtown on a mix of pavement and dirt.

"I can ride a hardtail as fast in almost all situations, but it would take so muc꧋h more effort," stated Craig. "If I were to put that much effort into riding a dualie, I'd end up going a teeny bit faster in a much more relaxed and much more composed manner. We're fortunate enough to have a super efficient suspension design that gives you faster rolling over all of the square-edged stuff because of the axle path and it just generally facilitates🦩 riding fast."

Craig himself played a key role in the creation of his Anthem, which was formerly launched just prior to . "I personally, and everyone at Giant, including Rune Hoydahl, involved in development agreed across the board that we could make a super steep, super short, aggressive race bike that would be designed to handle like a razor blade on courses like this where it's just all super turny and twisty," said Craig after his secon☂d place 💦finish in the Stage 1 time trial.

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