Trek Remedy 29 Carbon Frameset

Much more than a trail bike

Maybe the frame only option now available in the UK is the best way to go. Get that Fox 36 up front with a slick Sram X1 groupset and Guide Ultimate brakes. And let’s not forget how silly the Sram Boost 148 wheel with 24 spokes was last season, that was surely never going to last in the most inhospitable places on earth. Too right, the Trek World team bolted on custom Hope hubs laced with six more spokes. But you know what that skinny Boost wheel held up to a full season here in the UK and was it not for a failed ditch gap would still be going strong.

Ah yes, much more than a trail bike. And no doubt Trek were quick to bung it into both their ‘Trail” and “Enduro” classifications so capable was this bike with a sublime carbon a weave and speed across the ground. But more than this the ReActiv damper worked on by Penske and delivering quite outstanding performance quite different to anything else on the market. Yes it lacks ‘fizz and pop’ like some but grip?….. it has no peers.

“this bike actually does feel like it delivers much more than 140mm”

Of all the talk world wide of bikes that “feels like it has more travel” this bike actually does feel like it delivers much more than 140mm. And that’s just part of the reason you should quickly – before they run out or do something stupid like stop making them – go out and buy that frame. Bolt on that big 36 fork, drop the bottom bracket a shade and go and ride what is still our favourite but flawed (as are so many bikes) trail bike. While stocks last. Crazy business.

YOU DIDN’T KNOW THIS BUT…

Dylan Howes, Trek MTB Engineering Supervisor

So the Remedy is a bike we were dreaming of for years. It actually started as a Fisher Roscoe, and even then took a while for tyres and forks to catch up. We actually showed the bike in the catalogue one year with a completely different layout to what we know today. But the pre-production bikes simply weren’t performing as we wanted, and we killed the bike at the 11th hour and went back to the drawing board.

Somewhere in the complete redesign, we re-named it the Remedy.

Before the alloy Remedy went on sale, we were already working on a carbon one and planning for a “Boosted” version knowing that is what would take the bike to a proper level performance wise and eliminate any nagging qualms people had on 29er wheel performance.

“The Remedy is a bike that within Trek earned itself the nickname of the ‘Crack bike’”

The Remedy is a bike that within Trek earned itself the nickname of the ‘Crack bike’ because one ride was all it took to be hooked. The bike didn’t feel like a 29er, but simply felt like a great trail bike, regardless of wheel size. This was the bike that converted more people than any other within Trek to finally admit and accept that they were now 29er fans!