SRAM eTap, Blips, Blipbox etc.

Introducing SRAM RED® eTAP®

It’s Time To Shift Forward - At SRAM,

The Hef's Bike of Choice

Read all about it, Thanks Flow Mountain Bike

The Madone 7 Project One Review

BikeRadar's tester James Huang (aka AngryAsian) has reviewed the Trek Madone 7 Project One. Have a read and see what you think, better still sweet-talk Matt and take his for a spin and form your own opinion and then go and build your own.

Trek Madone 7 , the Winningest Bike on the Planet.

The 2014 Trek Madone

Recently, Trek released the new improved 2014 Madone onto the market. It seems subtle changes make a huge difference. Bicycling.com have already got their hands on one of these bikes, which sort of, tells you, there's something special about these bikes; and have reviewed it here...

"A minor upgrade helps Trek’s new Madone 7 transcend to the realm of great race bikes"

10 Out of 10!!

The all New Fuel EX 29 has scored a super 10 out of 10 in the most up to date review in the latest edition of Australian Mountain Biking magazine. Have you been wondering why "Thunder" or "Zulu" are hammering on the Dirty Rats Sunday morning social ride? This is the answer! Search no more, see us in store today to get yours...

...as Wade would say, "Come out." Read the full review on the Trek Fuel EX 29 here...

The RL Mountain WSD Review

Check out the recent review from Flow Mountain Bike here....

or

Get them at M1 Cycles

The 'top performer' for everybody

Trek Domane 4.3 Review ($2499rrp) via Bikeradar

There is little doubt that the Trek Domane 4.3 ('13) is one of the best value road bikes on the market in 2013. Go and see for yourself, and talk up a deal with the crew at M1 Cycles, Gladstone.


Read more....

New stuff around the M1 Cycles website

Thanks to SingleTracks, a review of 2013 Trek Superfly 100 AL Pro.
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Cool, short video of Bradley Wiggins parking a bike like-a-pro.
New platform pedals in store $49.
Dirty Domane - Spartacus' Paris Roubaix winning bike after the race, how they should look....

The Lush

Tracked down these reviews on one of the most capable 'Ladies' specific trail bikes, the Trek Lush.

Lush-ious!

Check out Trek Women on Facebook to trade information and inspiration with other bike-minded women.

Product Review - 2012 Trek Madone 6.9

Now I know 2012 has been and gone, but it was interesting to hear the response from a new local to town,  William Debois; after we let him borrow Matty's Trek Madone 6.9. 

You can usually tell the quality of a bike by the sound it makes when rolling down on a smooth road. The characteristic "buzzing" noise of a modern carbon bike can be as horrid as the sound of a plastic crate being dragged on the road or as soothing as a piece of ambient music by Brian Eno. The Trek Madone 6.9 sounds like the razorblade shaving your legs the night before a race. It is stunningly smooth, yet instantly responsive, thanks to design features such as the massively oversized bottom bracket, integrated headset and innovative seat mast. These characteristics help reduce the overall weight of the frame and increase its stiffness to the point where no power feels lost or wasted, allowing effortless acceleration and incredible efficiency on even the steepest hills. Equipped with the right wheels (the one I tried was fitted with excellent Bontrager RXL Scandium hoops), the dynamic handling and efficiency will inspire the kind of brave moves that can win a criterium.

Although it no longer feels right to mention the number of great tour wins the Madone series has to its name, since most of them have been scrubbed off the history books, it is obvious that this faultless design is the result of countless refinements, drawn from taking part and succeeding in the toughest races in the world. All this is very well, but would a middle aged mere mortal like me not be better off riding a bike half the price and work a little harder? Well, the whole point of such a high cost / high performance bike like this is that it will make you instinctively want to go faster, for longer, up steeper hills than before, and ride much much faster down the very hills that used to make you shiver and slam the brakes on. I fully experienced this last year, when riding up some insane gradients in the English Lake District on a Trek Madone (Hardknott Pass, 30% in places) as part of the brutal 180km Fred Whitton Challenge. The bike behaved like a well trained thoroughbred, correcting my mistakes in the steep descents and converting every last bit of my sub-standard energy into forward motion on the ascents. This is clearly a bike for all day riding, smashing your personal best over a double century and not finishing your rides as dribbling mess, unless that's what you seek, of course. 

William Debois, March 2013

The 4.5 Star Madone

"The very impressive Madone was a tough bike to better but Trek have managed it" - VIA BIKERADAR

"Chapeau Trek"

Updated....The Cobia - Ready to eat dirt.

Updated - 2013 Trek Cobia 29

So far here's our favourite bits:

• The 3x10 close-ratio drivetrain. More gears, more often means it's more reliable of a wider variety of terrain. Makes drivetrain slightly longer lasting. Close ratios like this are appreciated up steeper climbs.
• The G2 geometry solves the dreary steering issue of 29 inch wheels. Because the designers have done their homework on this, the Cobia  handles nimbly in tight, twisty singletrack. And yet high-speed stability; best of both worlds.
•  There's a reason why the Treks 29ers handle better than any others; it's because you can ride them like a 26” bike. Thanks, Gary Fisher, the father of mountain biking.

Stay Tuned.... even more soon!!

One of the best value 29ers on the current market. Considering it's heritage, and at $1299 rrp, and specced like it is, it is not hard to see why. So we're gonna ride it and tell you what we think.  In the meantime check it out on Trek's Website.

On the Scales

Cobia - weigh in

Speed Concept

Treks Speed Concept is best in class, not to mention the world fastest time trial bike and its easy to see why, Watch the below video where Linsey Corbin designs her very own project one Speed Concept with her personal touches. It never fails too amaze me with the amount professionalism and attention to detail this beautiful company excels in. There work is clean, accurate and has the most advanced technology, with features within the speed concept like KVF (kamtail virtual foil) a revolutionized tube shape which gives the bike not only a sleek looking design but greater speed and less aerodynamic drag making race day wins easier and effortless.  Trek Bicycles have a range of Time Trial / Triathlon bikes weather it be Tri specific or road trek cover it all too suit your budget check out there site today too learn more about the features speed concept has too offer and why you should consider the Speed Concept as your next dream ride.

The bike does make a difference, anyone who says it doesn't has a mindset of there own, comparing two riders with the same profile (weight, strength, etc.) it is the bike that separates one rider from another.

Check out - http://www.trekbikes.com/au/en/bikes/road

The G(winn)5 Tyres

Bontrager G5 Downhill Tyres

"Soon you can ride what Gwinnies riding." ...on All Things Trek Page...

The Trek Madone 6.9SSL

Trek Madone 6.9SSL Review

"I rank the Madone among the best bikes I’ve ridden in more than 20 years of testing." ...on All Things Trek Page...

The Simple Things

This Torque Wrench from Keith Bontrager and his team could quite possibly be the handiest little bike tool I've ever owned. 

A walk around the  Allen bolts on your bike is a snip with this little beauty. Preloaded to 5Nm and with a comfy grip Keeps is Simple, ie. a no-brainer. 

If you like to 'tinker' and you care about your bike, especially the carbon bits, it's hard to go past one of these; but keep it handy, you'll want to use it.

The Project One -Sneaky Pete cracks a ton on a Project One

Wiktionary definition:

Trek
   A slow or difficult journey.

Hmmm, we'll have to see about that....

Goods Received I took delivery of my Trek Project One merely hours before riding it.
Set up Strapped on a Garmin, dropped a couple of bottles in the cages: that's it:
then rode it 160+ kilometres through the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Never
before had I, or would I have, considered doing somehthing like this; no
preparation, no adjustment, just ride.
Jump in The 2012 Noosa Century Ride has it all, the perfect opportunity to get
acquainted with Trek's Flagship, equipped with SRAM Red and Aeolus 6.5
Wheelset. Hills and flats; rough and smooth; group riding and smashing a
headwind; brain-numbing straights and twisting descents; even a bit of
dirt, some gravel, and a few potholes.
The Ride If I had to sum the experience up in one word I would say, "compliant".
There's a reason why Levi Leipheimer reckons it's the most comfortable bike
he's ridden. And it's the same reason that during the ride and after, there
was no back pain or fatigue associated with dealing with the hammering Queensland road surfaces give you on a bike, despite the front end being 'slammed'.
Looks But this Trek Project One, is more than that...
One thing is, it gets noticed, "Nice Bike," as they pass by.
Leggy It's fast, even standing still. Just rolling along you notice it's speed. The
effort required to keep it at speed is less; it's gotta be - at least it
feels that way. I imagine the wheels and tyres help out here too. But climbing and accelerating is where you really notice it's speed. Power transfer sneaks up on you; pressure on the pedals converts
directly to forward motion almost unnoticed. A glance at the speedo and you know you're hooking along.
Handling is just short of twitchy, and yet it is unnerving at how sure-footed it is. It's got to be because of it's compliance; not only with the road surface, but under high steering loads too. Riding mass rides, with thousands of others, with some, not so experienced riders, calls for attentiveness and sometimes quick changes in direction. I've never experienced a bike that steers like this. Actually in situations like this it won't be the bike that lets you down, it'll be the riders skill and experience and ability to read what's going on. Sweeping descents are like on rails, no loss of speed or feeling of insecurity, and massive grin factor.
Components This bike doesn't feel like the sum of it's components, it feel like one unit. It just feels like you're riding a bike, it simply works. Except for SRAM Red, if you're coming from a Shimano Dura Ace/Di2 past, it takes a bit of swearing and some getting used to. And I don't think I'll ever come to terms with what I call the "Over-Under-shift", especially when climbing. You go to grab an extra gear as the grade increases upwards and if you're already in the smallest gear, it penalises your lack of attention by shiftin up a gear. Ta, thanks for that.

Trek have spent a lot of time and money on refining and producing this bike and it's long palmares shows this. Trek may very well have made the best multi day stage race bike in the world, but it's for this reason it's also a bike for the weekend warrior on a mission. You can cover a lot of k's in a short amount of time, without fuss and fatigue; day after day. A pretty good combination to have under you, I reckon.
Maybe we need to get Wiktionary to change their definition for 'Trek'?