3.5/5
Weight 10.44kg inc frame bag Frame 300 Series Alpha aluminium Fork Carbon Gears Shimano GRX RX800 11-speed Brakes Shimano RX810 hydraulic disc Wheels Bontrager Paradigm SL Finishing kit Bontrager Elite stem, Bontrager Elite Gravel handlebar, Easton EA70 AX, 27.2 mm seatpost, Bontrager Verse Comp saddle, Bontrager GR2 Team Issue tyres
THIS IS A BIKEPACKING-FLAVOURED offshoot of the US brand's venerable gravel bike range. It features a 1x drivetrain, dropper post and even comes with a frame bag. It sits below the carbon Checkpoint SL and SLR so that means no down-tube storage or compliance-boosting IsoSpeed. Neither do you get cable integration, but this does make maintenance easier.
It's made from Trek's lightest 300 Series Alpha Aluminium, producing a 1,490g painted frame weight (claimed) in a size 56cm, and 580g fork. Seatstays aren't dropped and the thin, round seat tube is fairly traditional. But there's a dropped driveside chainstay so you can fit 700x45mm gravel bike tyres. The carbon fibre fork is like the Checkpoint SL's.
Bossing it
You get five bosses on the downtube so you can run either two bottle cages or a cage and a frame bag. Three bosses bedeck the seattube and there's space for a bottle cage under the down-tube. There's also provision for a top-tube bag, mudguards and pannier. The fork has triple cage mounts but no routing for a dynamo.
この記事は Cycling Plus UK の February 2024 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、8,500 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
すでに購読者です ? サインイン
この記事は Cycling Plus UK の February 2024 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、8,500 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
すでに購読者です? サインイン
Objectives of desire
Ned ponders his affection for cycling on a ride from London to Minehead
ONE OF A KIND
Project One combines premium-quality customised bikes with an endless palette of colours and designs from the creative experts at Trek. It's a winning formula. Here's why...
Trek Checkpoint ALR 5 Driftless
£2,700 Aluminium bike-packing-friendly gravel bike
Gower Peninsula, Wales
A rider powers up the Cefn Bryn ridge on south Wales' Gower Peninsula.
Slow commotion
Downing Street targeting 20mph zones is attacking popular policy
Black Series Multistrada
£5,629 British designed, all-road speedster
Helmetcam militia
Hey, bad drivers! Want to be in the movies? Then smile as you close-pass us while on the phone
Rolling horizons
2018 Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas tells us about the joy of discovering new routes
ENTER THE DRAGON
It's one of the toughest sportives in the UK, but did climb-loving cycling author Simon Warren have the legs to slay the beast of a sportive route in 2023?
LOFTY GOALS
Higher, harder, longer... the road-sportive calendar gets ever more extreme. Here are 10 of the toughest single day rides to enter for 2024