According to the cyclingnews.com article, there will be an aluminum version, retailing for <US$2000, for sale in September.
Anybody heard anything more about this?
It’s definitely coming out in the fall. Looks like its going to have the new SRAM Apex gruppo.
Any ideas what features will be omitted to keep the cost down?
And/or what features aren’t feasible on an alu version?
Here’s a link that has some more information http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/trek-speed-concept-launches-in-los-angeles.
Also:
Speed Concept 2 Series: Trek is applying their Kammtail tube shapes to their new entry-level aluminum bike, the Speed Concept 2 Series. This version will not be available until the early fall and will cost less than $2,000.
Read more: http://triathlon.competitor.com/2010/05/news/trek-speed-concept-unveiled_9702#ixzz0ox6pTY00
Al looks good!
Meet the iPhone of the tri bike world. Prepare for Trek to capture about 50% of the North American tri bike market. Everyone else will be begging for scraps. Hooray for the US, we can still do a few things right I guess. The SC family is the new P2/P3.
Cervelo, it was nice knowing ya.
+1
Trek really knocked it out of the park with this bike. Just FYI, the alu version still has Kamm tail tubing, the same basic geometry, and is compatible with the rear storage box and top tube storage box or bottle. It’s basically an alu version of the 7 series. It doesn’t have the integrated bar/stem/brakes as the 9 series.
There is some good pics of it on bikeradar.com
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/trek-speed-concept-now-available-for-sale-26291
It’s really impressive that Trek has made their aluminum bikes reflect the technology of their carbon bikes. I’ve always been bummed that Cervelo didn’t do the same with their P1 in the least. Maybe take the chainstays from the old P3 aluminum over and redo the seattube to match the rest of the P line.
There are only a couple of reasons that it might not be my next bike: I wish it would go steeper than 78 degrees, and I’m not sure I can get that front end as low as I’d like. The new Felt design looks like it can do both so I might have to go that way but I really prefer the integration on the Trek, as well as the fact that the 9 series are USA-made.
This might be good or bad news for you depending on your perspective, but the Speed Concept has 2 different seatpost offsets that give it a range of seat angle well into the 82s. Trek really did work very hard to find a maximum range of adjustability for Speed Concept. Thanks.
The fully hidden cables and brakes are what put the Speed Concept 9 ahead of the other Superbikes for me. But when you take those away from the SC 7 and 2 series, they become comparable to everyone else’s “for the masses” models.
The fully hidden cables and brakes are what put the Speed Concept 9 ahead of the other Superbikes for me. But when you take those away from the SC 7 and 2 series, they become comparable to everyone else’s “for the masses” models.
About how many minutes per 40k would you say those fully hidden cables are worth?
Oh sorry, I meant to write that in pink…so anyway, how many minutes per 40k would you say those fully hidden cables are worth?
Yeah, here ya go dude. This should ease your fears. The stack and reach numbers should be easy enough, and take a look at the saddles as pictured. They’re all sitting ahead of the bottom bracket, and not even all the way forward on the rails.
http://www.trekbikes.com/pdf/2010/triathlon/speedconcept_fit_v3.pdf
Rebecca,
You can use a little tool I like to call Google
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/trek-speed-concept-now-available-for-sale-26291
http://triathlon.competitor.com/2010/05/news/trek-speed-concept-unveiled_9702
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/photos/trek-speed-concept-launches-in-los-angeles
This Google thing is super cool, give it a try
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i just have one thing to say in relation to a quote from a trek rep off of a cyclingnews article:
“One of the tools that we have at Trek that most other bike companies don’t have is something called Computational Fluid Dynamics,” said Cusack. “That’s a virtual wind tunnel inside a computer. We can take shapes, put them in run them and find out what’s the best shape.” (emphasis added)
a company that’s trying to sell high-end bikes shouldn’t try to lie to consumers so blatantly.
The fully hidden cables and brakes are what put the Speed Concept 9 ahead of the other Superbikes for me. But when you take those away from the SC 7 and 2 series, they become comparable to everyone else’s “for the masses” models.
About how many minutes per 40k would you say those fully hidden cables are worth?
Oh sorry, I meant to write that in pink…so anyway, how many minutes per 40k would you say those fully hidden cables are worth?
That’s the million dollar question… Everything else being equal, all these $5000 - $10,000 super bikes are probably less than 30 seconds per 40K faster than their little sisters.
Your continued intentional misunderstanding of my screen name, as well as your patronizing and sarcastic tone, is really cute.
Thanks for making my day, and letting me know that you still care.
XoXo