As some of you know, I work for Dragons Sports, importers of Giant Bicycles and some of you might have seen a discussion on my FB status a couple weeks back about Giant cutting the bmx team and yep, it's true. I found out just over a week ago but couldn't talk till it was official.
Basically Giant doesn't make any money from their BMX programme but never intended too either. Giant makes BMX bikes because they are passionate about covering all the bases of all types of bikes and that's what makes Giant such a great company. They make top end, high quality BMX bikes and parts even though they don't make any money from it.
With that said, they were spending large amounts of money on a team that wasn't really getting any exposure. Not making any money from a BMX programme is one thing, needlessly pouring money down the drain, is another story all together.
The only rider who is going out of his way to promote his sponsor is Tony Cherry , who will be staying on and he will be joined by a new team of hungry riders.
Giant has some great parts dropping soon and they'll be in South Africa early Jan 2010. Quality high end parts at really good prices. Parts include: PC pedals, slim sealed alloy pedals, 11butted 8x27 bars, light butted full cromo forks w/built in race, Piv Saddles, Frontload stems, coloured grips and more. I've got photos but can't release them yet (stay tuned).
Change is good and with Chris Arriaga at the helm I think things are just going to get better. Check Chris's interview at EXPN.com
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