Trek Factory Racing's Anton Cooper hails from New Zealand. He's the 2015 Under 23 and 2012 Junior XC World Champion, and the 23-year-old may be the one who will shake up the pro ranks this year, as he already made the podium last year in his first partial season as an Elite.
Cooper's Procaliber hardtail, with its stem slammed as low as it could possibly be, is a testament to his skills, as most of the peloton here in South Africa have opted for dual-suspension models to answer the course designers' three-headed technical challenge: lots of rocks, lots of logs and a variety of jumps that range from sculpted doubles to awkward hucks to flat.
SRAM TwistLoc shifter to lock out the RockShox SID fork. Enduro racer Jerome Clementz is credited with this trick, used on the rear suspension of his Cannondales.
What this is not an mtbmoped
"26in" measure 22in/559mm
"27.5in" measure 23in/584mm
and "29ers" which measure 24.5in/622mm
OK... so it is for a Go Cart. you didn't specify.
22+2+2=26 works huh...
thats also why we do road wheels in "c' not inches not that i know what ac is but....
e.g.
26x2.5 Muddy Mary = 27.4in diameter
26x3.0 Duro = 27.7in
27.5x2.35 Dirty Dan = 28.0 in
29x2.6 Nobby Nic = 29.5in
As for road wheels I suggest you get out a tape measure and see what the diameter of a 700cx23 wheel is...I bet it doesn't come anywhere near 700mm...
Mountainbiking should stick to reality even though apparently we now live in a world with "alternative" facts...
Not a trick. That's a dedicated twisting remote, not a repurposed shifter.
Trek does this thing where they don't put 29er wheels on small size frames. I bet he sized up frames to 17.5 so he could get the big wheels, then ran a 30 deg stem to get the bars where he needed the. What's he, 5'4"?
Could probably get it lower with a proper flat headset cap (or none at all). Can he even read the garmin at that angle?
Utterly ridiculous. You do not know better than him or the team.
Cooper and Trek know his best chance is on a 29 wheel bike, so that puts him on a bike that ends up on the very edge of adjustment for him. 17.5" is what my 5'8" wife rides and she's got 300mm+ seatpost showing.
Trek XC bikes are really oddly sized compared to the competition. I went through a few iterations but I'm happy on my 21.5" Top Fuel even though I'm barely 6'1" after a hot shower and a good stretch. Right in the middle of adjustment. You'll notice many Trek factory riders running with saddles slammed forward versus Specialized riders with setback posts.
Treks XC bikes are just a bit odd. Have you ridden the current Top Fuel and procal? I've got about 1000 miles on a procal and 5000 on a Top Fuel in the last 2 seasons so I'm becoming familiar.
Too bad they ruined it all by putting an athlete on a bike that clearly doesn't fit, as evidenced by the idiotic cockpit set up. When asking your Trek teammates for set up advice you're best off ignoring Emily Batty and her batsh*t crazy advice on stems and bike fit.
His headtube is too high because his headangle is too steep. Slacken that bike up a few degrees and you will be able to place the downtube lower without risk of the tire bottoming out on it. It will also allow the headtube to be shorter (all though slackening the headangle will already lower the height of the stem).
This would also make the bike handle better too. Steep headangles have no place on a mountainbike not even in XC. Long front ends enable you to run a slacker headangle without the front end wandering on the climbs.
However I am going to assume that Trek actually put some thought into the geometry, and came up with a competitive world cup race bike worthy of the Trek name.
Full disclosure.
StemCaps.com is a sponsor of the Trek Factory Racing Team. I also ride a Trek Top Fuel and It's the best XC bike I have ever ridden, so my opinion may be a little biased
Don't assume Trek knows what they are doing when it comes to geometry. This is the same company that continues to put out super bikes with stupid slack seat angles. And it like most companies keep going slacker and longer every year...so I guess they haved figured out the best geometry AT ALL!
Steep head angles are for going slow because as soon as you have some speed you lean the bike over to turn. Steep headangles make no sense for mountainbiking period. Thankfully some companies are finally putting out XC bikes with slacker geometry.
XC shouldn't just be about low weight they should also handle well. Road bikes suffer from this same problem but at least XC bikes aren't limited in geometry by the UCI!!!
"Oh, those bars are so low, I'm outraged!"
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