Stack and reach
How high and how far forward the top of the head tube is, from the bottom bracket. They are the two numbers that decide whether a frame can be set up like yours.
BB, or bottom bracket
The axle your cranks turn on, in the middle of the frame. Every number on this site is measured from it, because it is the one point that sits in the same place on every bike.
Headset cover
The little cap on top of the head tube, under your spacers. Most makers do not publish it, so I assume 10 mm and add 6 mm to the band beside every answer.
Stem clamp, and its centre
The collar on the steerer that your stem bolts to. I need the middle of it. Where a maker gives only the height, I assume halfway up and say so on the answer.
Steerer
The tube coming up out of the fork. The cover, the spacers and the stem all sit on it, and it is the thing a mechanic cuts to length.
Bar reach
How far forward the hoods sit from the middle of the bar. Two bars on the same stem can put your hands 20 mm apart, which is why I ask.
Setback
How far your saddle sits behind the bottom bracket.
Drop
How much lower your hands sit than your saddle. On a riser bar I count the bar's rise, so the drop is that much less than it is to the clamp.
Rails, and the rail centre
The two rods under your saddle, and the middle of the straight part of them. That midpoint is the point I use, because it is the one you can find with a tape.
The band
How far out I could be, in millimetres, and why. It is a straight sum of everything I had to assume rather than a clever average, so it errs wide on purpose.
wb, stand, trail
Wheelbase, standover and trail: how long the bike is, how high the top tube is where you straddle it, and how steady the steering feels. I show them against your bike, and I leave them out when the maker does not publish them.
est.
Estimated: a number I worked out rather than read off the maker's table. Anything marked this way can move if the maker publishes the real one.
Close Escape closes it. The measuring guide has the pictures. Open the measuring guide
Giant Contend SL
Endurance road · 6 sizes
The Contend SL on giant-bicycles.com
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- Bike
- Giant Contend SL · Endurance road · 6 sizes
- Versions
- 2027 · 2025 · 2018, this table
- Geometry
- giant-bicycles.com, fetched 21 Oct 2026, re-checked, no differences
- Seat angle convention
- Calculated from Giant's table
- Cockpit
- Generic stem and bar, assumed
- Solved with
- cover 10 mm (assumed), max spacers 40 mm (assumed), stem clamp centre 20 mm (assumed), so every verdict carries ±10 mm at the bar
- Sheet
- 22 October 2026 · 879 bikes, 79 makes, 4,979 sizes in the catalogue
Geometry, every size, from the maker's table
The tinted row is the size drawn beside it. Press a size to draw it.| Size | Stack (mm) | Reach (mm) | Head angle (deg) | Seat angle (deg) | Head tube (mm) | Chainstay (mm) | Wheelbase (mm) | Standover (mm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XS | 523 | 365 | 71 | 74.5 | 125 | 410 | 973 | 687 |
| S | 546 | 373 | 72 | 74 | 145 | 410 | 979 | 717 |
| M | 567 | 377 | 72.5 | 73.5 | 165 | 410 | 985 | 745 |
| M/L | 586 | 381 | 72.5 | 73 | 190 | 410 | 997 | 779 |
| L | 605 | 390 | 72.5 | 73 | 210 | 410 | 1012 | 797 |
| XL | 624 | 398 | 72.5 | 72.5 | 230 | 410 | 1027 | 822 |
The table runs on to the right: 6 more columns after Reach. Scroll it sideways to read them.
The M/L drawn to scale from the table, with no build on it. Stack and reach run from the bottom bracket to the top of the head tube; every size is solved from those two. One square is 100 mm.
The maker's cockpit
No stock cockpit I can name, so every size is solved on a generic stem and bar unless you choose one on the sheet.Generic stem and barAssumedNo bar is listed for this frame.
Stock stem and bar per sizeXS 80 x 400, S 90 x 400, M 100 x 420, M/L 100 x 420, L 110 x 440, XL 110 x 440 (stem length x bar width, mm)
Frame facts
not read off the maker's page yet: giant-bicycles.com- Tyre clearance
- not recorded yet
- Bottom bracket
- not recorded yet
- Axles and brakes
- not recorded yet
- UDH
- not recorded yet
- Seatpost
- not recorded yet
- Frame weight
- not recorded yet
In the maker's words
Kept whole, as I read it off giant-bicycles.com.Contend SL 1 (2018), Giant UK spec: Handlebar "Giant Connect"; Stem "Giant Sport" (no widths, lengths or angle on the spec lines; the geometry table's Handlebar Width row prints 400/400/420/420/440/440 and Stem Length 80/90/100/100/110/110).
Cockpit and seatpost, in the maker's words · 43 words
Contend SL 1 (2018), Giant UK spec: Handlebar "Giant Connect"; Stem "Giant Sport" (no widths, lengths or angle on the spec lines; the geometry table's Handlebar Width row prints 400/400/420/420/440/440 and Stem Length 80/90/100/100/110/110). Seatpost "Giant D-Fuse Composite". Fork "Hybrid Composite, OverDrive Steerer".
OFFICIAL SOURCE: Giant UK archive page for the Contend SL 1 (2018), title "Contend SL 1 (2018) | All-Rounder bike | Giant Bicycles UK", frame "ALUXX SL-Grade Aluminum". Source: html table (official Giant UK archive bike page, section "Sizing Guide and Geometry", the HTML <table class="geometry"> with mm and inch spans; fetched 2026-10-21
How I read the maker's table
Six sizes XS, S, M, M/L, L, XL in the table; the spec Sizes line reads "S, M, ML, L, XL". The Contend SL before the one in giant-contend-sl-2025.json. Its stack, reach, angles, top tube, head tube, seat tube, rake, trail and BB drop are the Defy Advanced 2018's (giant-defy-2018.json), with a 410 mm chainstay (420 on the Defy), wheelbases 10 to 11 mm shorter, lower standovers and shorter stock stems on M/L and XL. Stock tyre "Giant P-SL1, 700x25, Folding". Angles printed to one decimal (74.0 is recorded as 74).
Source: html table (official Giant UK archive bike page, section "Sizing Guide and Geometry", the HTML <table class="geometry"> with mm and inch spans; fetched 2026-10-21, HTTP 200)