Trek has boosted the suspension travel by 10mm at each end – it now serves up 160mm in the rear and 170mm up front. With the cheapest Slash coming in at £2,650, Trek’s internal storage is available at a lower price point. In the case of the Slash, both the carbon and alloy frames have the handy compartment for snacks, pumps, tools and the like, while Specialized only offers down tube storage on its pricier carbon frames. We first saw Trek do it with the Fuel EX trail bike and Domane road bike. While Trek certainly wasn’t the first to think of turning the down tube into a handy storage area, it’s brought the idea (which we’re big fans of) to more people. The bike comes with a tool roll to make it easier to get things in and out of the frame. Internal storage in alloy frames as well as carbon To complement the longer reach numbers, Trek is speccing very short 35mm stems across all sizes, along with (now almost ubiquitous) short offset forks. This is still a bit slacker than some of its rivals, but definitely a step in the right direction. Well, it’s now 2 degrees steeper, measuring 75.6 degrees in low and 76.1 degrees in high. And while the travel-adjustable fork on some models helped a little, it was almost an admission of the problem. One particular criticism of the old Slash was the slack seat tube angle, which made it tricky to tackle steep climbs. That’s quite low for a bike with this much travel. Meanwhile, the bottom bracket drop has increased by 8mm, and now sits at 345mm in the low setting. Pretty much all of this growth comes from the front-centre because the rear-centre has only increased by 2mm, to 437mm. The head angle is now 1-degree slacker, at 64.1 degrees in the low setting the reach has increased by 15mm to 40mm size-by-size (the largest frame now has a whopping 515mm reach) the wheelbase has grown by 25mm to 50mm depending on size. The Mino Link allows the bottom bracket height and frame angles to be adjusted.
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