Australian Mountain Bike

TREK SUPERCALIBER 9.8

The 2021 Trek Supercaliber 9.8 is a very neat bike, aesthetically and practically. There is an untold level of excitement and satisfaction on picking up a new bike like this at your local shop. And despite the move to contactless transactions and direct to consumer purchases, I don’t think the feeling of collecting a new bike from the shop, where the staff are as stoked as you, will ever be replaced.

The Trek Supercaliber has very clean lines no matter which way you look at it, from the straight downtube to the somewhat hidden shock underneath and inside the top tube. The bike has a classically shaped frame we can all recognise from some point in our own lives, two opposing triangles situated between a set of wheels with a seat in the middle. Yet the Supercaliber is far from a classic, with its flexible rear seat stays, the bike looks like a hardtail from years ago but behaves

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