It’s stiff (and it arguably looks a lot better than the swan neck downtubes of before) but it does mean that the fork crown will hit the downtube in a crash.
Let’s not forget that Trek does a huge range of mountain bike hardtails too.Īll of Trek’s chunky full suspension bikes, like the Slash, Remedy and Fuel EX get a stiffer, straighter downtube. If you’re going to be silly – you might as well get really silly, right? The Farley EX 8. Trek’s Farley 24 kid’s fat bike.Īt the other end of the fat spectrum is this Farley EX 8 – which boasts 120mm up front and the same out back, along with 3.8in Bontrager Hodag tyres.
The rest of the Stache line looks pretty good.Īnd this isn’t just far away, it’s Trek’s kid’s fat bike, the Farley 24 which ‘crushes sandcastles and snow forts’ apparently. You like? We like… Trek is among a very small number of companies championing the 29+ platform, but it seems that it’s making a good push of it, given the investment that the carbon Stache must have taken. Stache line now includes carbon Stache! We’ll bring you the full story shortly, but Trek’s 29+ hardtail, with the super short chainstays, now gets a carbon framed version. There was a lot to see in the polished concrete aisles. It’s open to bike shops and media for a couple of days, before allowing the public in for a ticket-only event at the weekend.
Trek World is Trek’s annual house show in Milton Keynes.