Kicking the Top Fuel off the podium as Trek’s purebred XC race bike, the Supercaliber is designed to be super light, super efficient and super fast. WHOOOOOOSH! We’ve been gassing it on Trek’s go-fast XC bike to see what makes it stand out from the pack. Watch our video review of the Trek Supercaliber here! Thankfully it isn’t just this bike’s looks that make it stand out so much.
But somehow, amongst a sea of lookalikes, the Trek Supercaliber manages to do exactly that. This has made it harder to do something different, which is especially the case in the world of XC bikes, where there’s less material and less travel to play with in the first place. Decades of refinement and learning from past mistakes have seen the more whacky ideas fade away though, and most brands seem to have converged on a handful of commonly-shared designs. Nevertheless, innovation was rife and very few bikes looked the same. Granted, a lot of those designs also looked like they were doodled by a three year old. You can run out of travel on really rough trailsīack in the 90s, every mountain bike designer was doing their level best to produce a full suspension bike that was as wildly different as possible from everything else.
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