The Remedy has been a mainstay of Trek’s mountain bike range for many years now, but 2016 — or 2017 in bike industry years — has seen it get a serious overhaul, including the fact it's only available with 27.5" wheels. It’s now stiffer, burlier and much more aggressively shaped than ever before, finally giving it enough bite to match the marketing bark.
This is the absolute tippy-top spec Remedy, with a full carbon fibre frame that uses all of Trek’s composite know-how to minimise mass. While that obviously makes it much lighter than the aluminium models found lower down the range, they all share some pretty neat technology.
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Swing a leg over the bike and one of these will become apparent as soon as you try and turn the bars, because you’ll find that they don’t spin all the way round. Instead of kinking the downtube to allow the fork crown to clear it, Trek has simply not bothered. From an engineering point of view this makes a lot of sense; triangles are the strongest structures after all.
The headtube to downtube junction is one of the most highly stressed areas of the bike, so having a more direct connection allows Trek to keep this area strong, and also much lighter, as it doesn’t require a load more material chucking in there to compensate for the flawed design. Of course, that does leave you with the not so inconsequential problem of allowing the fork crown to contact the downtube.
To get around that, Trek uses a steering lock limiter that it calls Knock Block. This uses a special headset and frame insert in conjunction with specially keyed headset spacers, which prevents any contact and potential damage. It’s possible to use a conventional, non-keyed stem too, but you’ll need a special lockring to hold everything in place if you do that.
Solid and synchronised frame
Hitting the trails hard
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