![]() ![]() It’s equally tyre pressure dependent and potentially puncture prone as other plus rides too, although the ‘Stranglehold’ dropouts make it compatible with conventional 29er or 27.5in plus wheels too. With the frame-only option costing £700, single ring component spec is okay rather than outstanding. The carbon rigid fork keeps weight down to an effervescent 12.18kg that’s easy to pop and hop over potential trouble and amplifies its feeling of float even further. As long as you get the tyre pressure right they’ve got the same traction levels as a slug on a wet window too.īy using a radical curved tube, asymmetric raised chainstay frame, Trek has managed to keep the Stache 5 feeling genuinely agile in terms of steering. Internal derailleur and dropper post routing. The bike is part of Trek s Stache range of mountain bikes. It sports 29' wheels, is priced at 3,800 USD, comes in a range of sizes, including 15.5 in., 17.5 in., 19.5 in., 21.5 in., has RockShox suspension and a SRAM drivetrain. You’ll only miss not having any suspension when you start hitting bigger blocks and drops and the tyres start bottoming out and bouncing. The 2019 Trek Stache 9.7 is an Cross Country Carbon mountain bike. Once you’ve got these rubber dinghies rotating, the smoothing effect on rolling, rocky or rooty trails is genuinely amazing. Trek has managed to keep the Stache 5 feeling genuinely agile in terms of steering The result is a similar ground smoothing low pressure footprint to a 27.5in plus-tyre, but amplified in terms of bump shrinking speed sustained by the shallower contact angle of the 29in diameter. ![]() 3in wide Bontrager Chupacabra 29er plus tyres sit on windowed, 50mm wide Mulefüt rims. It’s immediately obvious that the Stache 5 is far from conventional, even in today’s broad reaching MTB landscape. Highlights from the 2017 Trek mountain bike range.We’d heard consistently great things about this monster wheel machine all year though, so we were keen to find out if this radical head turner was a genuine opinion changer on the trail. When it came to supplying a bike for testing, the Trek demo cupboard was almost bare apart from the uniquely freaky Stache 5. ![]() The unconventional Trek Stache 5 - Russell Burton ![]()
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