This gives extra strength and more clearance around the hefty 29x3.0 Bontrager Chupacabra tires that come stock on the bike. The pressfit-style BB92 bottom bracket shell and the first 4 inches of the left stay are forged as one piece. Even there, Trek has a trick up its sleeve. But only on the drive side-the left stay attaches in the traditional position. Yes, you read that right: an elevated chainstay. To get a rear center as short as was wanted, and to stay with a normally sized bottom bracket shell, Trek anchored the drive side chainstay above the bottom bracket. They hold the rear wheel solidly in place with a 12mm thru-axle. It also features a remarkably tight wheelbase, which is adjustable thanks to sliding dropouts that Trek calls Stranglehold. New from the ground up, the Stache frame takes full advantage of Boost 148, the wider spacing of the rear dropouts and realigning of the chainline that Trek and SRAM brought into play last summer. We were able to put it through its paces and the result is a gas. We got our mitts on the top-of-the-line Stache 9 a week ago. With the ability to accommodate a range of wheel and tire sizes, from 27.5+ to standard 29er and on through to 29+, the Stache is poised to possibly be a do-it-all one bike solution. According to Trek, this new Stache is for the rider looking for the simplicity of a hardtail and the capability of a full suspension bike. It’s equally tyre pressure dependent and potentially puncture prone as other plus rides too, although the ‘Stranglehold’ dropouts make it compatible with conventional 29er or 27.5in plus wheels too.For 2016, Trek has reimagined the Stache line of bikes to fit plus-sized wheels. With the frame-only option costing £700, single ring component spec is okay rather than outstanding. The carbon rigid fork keeps weight down to an effervescent 12.18kg that’s easy to pop and hop over potential trouble and amplifies its feeling of float even further. As long as you get the tyre pressure right they’ve got the same traction levels as a slug on a wet window too.īy using a radical curved tube, asymmetric raised chainstay frame, Trek has managed to keep the Stache 5 feeling genuinely agile in terms of steering. You’ll only miss not having any suspension when you start hitting bigger blocks and drops and the tyres start bottoming out and bouncing. Once you’ve got these rubber dinghies rotating, the smoothing effect on rolling, rocky or rooty trails is genuinely amazing. ![]() ![]() Trek has managed to keep the Stache 5 feeling genuinely agile in terms of steering The result is a similar ground smoothing low pressure footprint to a 27.5in plus-tyre, but amplified in terms of bump shrinking speed sustained by the shallower contact angle of the 29in diameter. 3in wide Bontrager Chupacabra 29er plus tyres sit on windowed, 50mm wide Mulefüt rims. It’s immediately obvious that the Stache 5 is far from conventional, even in today’s broad reaching MTB landscape. Highlights from the 2017 Trek mountain bike range.We’d heard consistently great things about this monster wheel machine all year though, so we were keen to find out if this radical head turner was a genuine opinion changer on the trail. When it came to supplying a bike for testing, the Trek demo cupboard was almost bare apart from the uniquely freaky Stache 5. The unconventional Trek Stache 5 - Russell Burton
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