In recent years, the brand has got behind transport cycling and, as you’ll see below, produced some nice ones.įX are fast, fun, comfortable and agile enough for a multitude of uses. Trek backed 29er wheels for mountain bikes long before they became standard. Women-Specific Design bikes were launched in 2000.
In 1992, Trek’s 5500 road bike was the world’s lightest production carbon fibre frame (1.11kg). Yet it has a history of innovation that rubbishes the bike-snob claim that big brands are somehow ‘boring’. It’s well known for its mainstream road and mountain bikes. Since then Trek has become a huge bicycle business. In the first year, Trek produced 904 steel touring frames in a barn in Wisconsin, close to today’s headquarters. Founders Dick Burke and Bevil Hogg had closed their Stella Bicycle Shop chain the year before. The company was set up 1976 to offer a domestic alternative to the then dominant high-performance European bikes. Trek is unusual among American bike brands in offering not just spartan sports hybrids but fully equipped city bikes that would look at home on the streets of Amsterdam or Berlin. Trek’s hybrids are its most popular bike type, which indicates that they’re doing something right with their design.
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