![]() Trek claim that when they back-to-back tested the 29er and 650b versions of the new Session, the 29er was considerably faster Trek You can read more about that in the interview at the bottom of this article. But, it says, modern shocks have less need of this, and so the fixed shock mount works just as well. It says it was needed to give the bike extra “plushness” off the top. We pressed Trek as to why it bothered with the Full Floater design in the first place. Trek says this allows it to make the frame stiffer, lighter, and still allows it to get the kinematics as it wants them. The Full Floater suspension is goneĪs with the Slash enduro bike, Trek decided to do away with its Full Floater suspension design – in which the shock was attached to an extension of the swingarm, and so moved with the suspension – in favour of a fixed lower shock mount. Despite the increase in length up front, Trek decided to keep the chainstays the same length, at 446mm. We think Trek could’ve gone longer still. The size XL has a reach of 470mm, which puts it at the longer end of the spectrum for downhill bikes, but it’s still shorter than the Canyon Sender – one of the longest – which measures 480mm. A large now measures 445mm in the low setting, up from 425mm. Combined with the Mino Link, this gives a total head angle range of 62.1 to 64.4 degrees – enough range to race the steepest tracks one day, and play in the bike park the next.Īs for the longer part, reach numbers have gone up by around 20mm in each size. As standard, that number now sits at 63.0 degrees in the low setting (down from 63.6 degrees on the outgoing bike), while offset cups can steepen it or lower it by one degree. In addition to the Mino Link, Trek will ship the bikes with offset headset cups to further tweak the head angle. The Session 9.9 will retail for $7,999.99, with the first bikes landing in September Trek For context, a Specialized Demo (one of the lowest) measures up at 342mm (12mm drop), while a Canyon Sender is a little taller, at around 350mm (6mm drop). That’s moderately low for a downhill bike, but not the lowest. The new Trek Session comes up at 356mm in the highest setting, and 349mm in the lowest. That’s not exactly slammed low, and as a result few riders (racers in particular) ever used the high position. The old Session’s bottom bracket height was 356mm (2mm BB drop) in the low setting. Trek’s Mino Link system allows the bottom bracket height to be adjusted by 8mm, along with a head angle change of around half a degree. The new Session’s lower, longer, and slacker Using LITPro on-board telemetry, Trek reckons the big-wheeled bike wasn’t just faster overall, but that there was no point on the test track where the 29er was appreciably slower.Įven so, Trek anticipates 90 percent of its Session sales will be made up by the Session 27.5, with the 29er remaining the choice of serious racers only. Apparently, Atherton went four seconds faster over a two-minute course. Trek claims that when it back-to-back tested the 29er and 650b versions of the new Session, the 29er was considerably faster. ![]() Trek anticipates just 10% of riders will opt for the 29in Session Trek
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