Bike Shock
Trek Slash 9 review (Bike Radar)
Trek’s Slash all-round enduro bike is a replacement for the short-lived
Scratch Air and uses most of the company’s latest tech tricks. The control
delivered by the rear end, plus a host of neat features and the beautifully
balanced, tight but light-enough frame, make it one of the bikes to beat in
2012.
**Ride & handling: Trek’s fresh all-mountain bike sets new total control
standards**
The most striking thing about the Slash is how balanced it feels in terms of
handling. The angles are certainly at the slack end of the spectrum, but
there’s no super-short chainstays flicking you around or barge-like length
forcing you to take the long line round slow-speed corners.
You just feel really well centred between the wheels and ready and poised for
anything. Whether that’s turning a high-speed slide at one end or the other
into a controlled drift, or calmly launching off a desert crag into a narrow
landing slot on the edge of some serious singletrack exposure it just feels
totally nonchalant.
In fact, when riding solo, it could almost be described as underwhelming,
precisely because it’s so controlled and capable. Get onto the front of a fast
group or follow …
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