He later recruited Duff McKagan to his band, however, he had to disband the group since they couldn’t find a lead singer. Stay tuned to for a longer term review coming in the near future.Tidus Sloan was Slash’s first band which he later left to form his band, Road Crew, along with his friend Steven Adler. Trek appears to have taken an already awesome bike and given it just a little bit more awesome, which translates to a lot of fun on the trail. As of now, it’s safe to say that we’ve been having a blast on this well-rounded machine and can’t wait to keep reaching for PR’s and KOM’s on our local test tracks. While we’d love to have more to share form our time on the bike, we just didn’t have enough time to give the bike a proper thrashing on a wide variety of trails. While there are no enduro races on our calendar this year as of now, you can rest assured this bike will be racing down any trail we can find on it. Trek designed some very smart, sharp and unique features that will hopefully set it apart from the stack of ultra-capable enduro race bikes available today. The new Slash comes to the table with a new forward-thinking geometry and a bump in suspension travel. They also took feedback from real riders who may or may not care about the “raceabiltiy” of the bike, but instead want something that will help them have more fun and tackle trails they want to ride more confidently. Reach gets longer by 20-30mm depending on sizeįor 2021, Trek has leaned heavily on development input from their race team to make this bike as fast and capable as possible.Seat tube angle gets almost 2 degrees steeper (high: 76.1, low: 75.6).Head tube gets 0.6 degrees slacker (high: 64.6, low: 64.1).A full-length downtube guard provides added protection, especially for shuttling. The BSA 73mm threaded bottom bracket is easier to service and less creaky than press fit versions. A new and larger 34.9mm diameter seat tube accommodates more robust dropper posts. Other nice features include internal frame storage for every model, including the alloy ones. Our hack test riders can’t turn that tight so we left ours in and they never complained. When asked why they went this way, Trek simply said that the feature is polarizing on whether the protection is worth limiting steering range. Geometry changes follow the “longer, lower, slacker” line of thinking, but still not so far as to call it “extreme.” The frame has Trek’s updated Knock Block 2.0 headset system to protect the top tube and cables in a crash, but the fork crown does clear the downtube, so Knock Block is removable on this year’s Slash. The new Slash gets a 10-millimeter bump in travel from last year’s version, now sporting 160mm in the rear, and 170mm in the front. It should be efficient enough to handle steep and long climbs, without making so many durability compromises that it falls apart when you drop down the backside. It should be something that feels burly, yet fast. Long before Trek began building a bike called the Slash, riders have been fascinated with the notion of building a bike with the capabilities of a downhill sled and a cross country climber in one. ![]() Soon after that facility was built, Trek began work on developing their Active Braking Pivot suspension design, and a new exciting line of mountain bikes came to the trails. That all changed about a decade ago when Trek got sick of being “Your dad’s bike brand,” and invested in a new R&D facility in the mountains near Santa Clarita, Southern California. They were what you would expect from a brand that was designing their product in the midwest, a place that is completely absent of any mountains with real elevation to speak of. Their mountain bikes were truly lackluster. There was a time when Trek Bicycles was best known for building a ton of family bikes and a few high end roadie machines for the likes of Lance and his crew. The latest Trek Slash throws fuel on the fire of awesome Trek mountain bikes.
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