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2021 Trek Supercaliber 9.8 GX Bike
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XC Speed Demon: Trek Supercaliber Review (Product Review)

Overall Review
In 2019, Trek showed up to the World Cup with a mysterious XC bike that was under wraps for most of the racing season, with what was sure to be a unique suspension layout and some fancy tech hiding under the hood. Eventually, after every cycling forum overflowed with bad photoshopped images of the new bike, the real deal was unleashed unto the market. The frame designers had taken a different approach to making a fast race bike, and in parallel with a new Top Fuel being released with revised geometry and more travel, Trek opened a space in their line-up for a “not a hard-tail and not a full...
Posted by yonatan.yatom on 5/28/2021 3:14am
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2019 Trek Remedy 8 Bike

Versatile bike (Product Review)

The Good

-Stiffness -Durability -Design -Looks -Not too long

The Bad

-Maybe too stiff? -Re:Aktiv shock -Knock block -Provided dropper is a bit short -Main pivot bearing should be bigger

Overall Review
Been riding this for 2 years. It is a good trail bike out of the box. However, I feel that the stiff chassis begs rowdier riding. The steering is super precise and it never feels like the bike would not handle the abuse. I have been jumping all the biggest stuff there is around where I live. For the majority of time I have had a 180 mm air spring in the fork I have fitted a 230x65 Super Deluxe coil and put the flipchip in the low position. This gives good bb hight ~165-170mm in the rear and a slacker hieadangle. Now the bike is fit for enduro. The leverage ratio is a bit too linear for a coil...
Posted by sokantoivo on 11/4/2020 12:32am
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