Giant's integrated seatpost is designed for a little flex for comfort, as are the seatstays(Image credit: Courtesy Giant Bicycles)
28mm Vittoria Corsa tubulars(Image credit: Courtesy Giant Bicycles)
Giant has a range of saddles. Teunissen goes with the Contact SL Forward(Image credit: Courtesy Giant Bicycles)
Bar tape? Yep, that would be a Giant product, too. For Roubaix, Teunissen uses Giant Contact cork tape (Image credit: Courtesy Giant Bicycles)
Giant provides everything for the bike except the group, the computer and the tires. Here, Teunissen uses a 120mm Giant Contact SL stem and 42cm handlebar(Image credit: Courtesy Giant Bicycles)
While some teams use grip tape to keep bottles secure over the cobbles, Teunissen and his team rely on Giant Airway Composite cages(Image credit: Courtesy Giant Bicycles)
Team Sunweb rider Mike Teunissen has already won Paris-Roubaix once — in the under-23 category in 2014. This year, the 25-year-old Dutchman is gunning for victory in the elite men's race aboard a Giant Defy Advanced SL disc bike.
Teunissen recently took second at Dwars door Vlaanderen, one of the lead-up races to the cobbled classic Monuments of the Ronde van Vlaanderen and Paris-Roubaix.
Teunissen also won the 2013 U23 cyclocross world championship, on a Giant no less, as a member of the Rabobank Development team.
For Paris-Roubaix, Teunissen and several of his Team Sunweb teammates will ride special team issue (read: shorter head-tube version) Defy Advanced SL bikes.
Just like the consumer option, the Defy bike is made with Giant's Advanced SL-grade composite, disc brakes, a D-shaped seatmast for compliance and plenty of clearance for high-volume tires.
