All we need now is for the racing to start so we can see if Trek has maintained that winning pedigree. Park runs or World Cup circuit, Session finds the fast on the rowdiest trails with a new high-pivot frame design, 200mm of travel, and the world’s best suspension tech. The bike also appears to be every bit as customisable as it is capable and even though it looks very different to the previous Session it’s evident that it builds on the foundations laid down by over a decade of racing at the very highest level. home Looks like a Session or does it The benchmark of downhill mountain bikes is back with a whole new lookand a whole lot of new speed to go with it. If you want to go down the custom build route there’s also a frame only option for £2,750. So the new Trek Session is packed with innovative features and the alloy frame certainly keeps the pricing competitive with the top end Session 9 at £6,300 and the entry-level Session 8 at £4,500. ![]() Flip the shock Mino Link to the rearward setting and the total progression increases to 25% to better resist bottoming when used with a coil sprung shock. In the forward position the Session has 20% total progression making it ideal for air-sprung shocks. Rather than striking a compromise between the most effective progression rate for either air or coil shocks, the new Trek Session has a second Mino Link in the lower shock mount that offers two distinct progression settings. And unlike some idler designs, the main pivot piston on the new Session is not so high as to give a completely rearward axle path. Why introduce the additional complexity of an idler? Well, the science behind the more rearward axle path clearly shows that it reduces the peak vertical velocity of the rear wheel, or to put it another way, it gives the wheel more time to climb the bump. In fact, the new Session is a hybrid of old and new, combining the current ABP suspension layout with the higher pivot and idler of old to produce a 200mm travel 29er downhill race bike that can also be adapted for events like Red Bull Rampage with a few tweaks that we’ll get to in just a minute. Backwards to the rearward axle path and idler design of the original Session 10 and the Diesel before that. ![]() But at the performance end of downhill racing time rests for no one, so instead of polishing the brass in its sizeable trophy cabinet Trek is going after more titles.Īnd to do that it’s actually looking backwards. With such an impressive list of palmares, Trek could easily be forgiven for taking the “if it ain’t broken, why fix it?” approach. Leverage curve changes via lower flipchip
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