{"id":211,"date":"2021-12-16T15:29:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.220triathlon.com\/?p=89872"},"modified":"2021-12-16T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:40:16","slug":"introducing-the-fastest-bike-trek-has-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/220triathlon\/rss_feed\/introducing-the-fastest-bike-trek-has-ever-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the fastest bike Trek has ever made"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Rob Slade\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 16 December 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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After seven years of development Trek\u2019s new Speed Concept triathlon bike is finally here, and it comes with some big claims.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThis is the fastest bike we\u2019ve ever tested, of any brand,\u201d says the brand\u2019s Director of Road Bikes Jordan Roessingh. How fast is it? Well, Trek says it\u2019s an impressive 16 watts faster (at 45kph) around Kona than the last iteration, which represents a saving of six minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ll take a look at that in more detail shortly, but first let\u2019s hear what else Roessingh had to say about the new bike. \u201c[The Speed Concept] is a complete triathlon package for half-Iron and full-Ironman distances.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[We\u2019re] not just looking at aerodynamics, but fit, comfort and all the storage solutions that the riders need to make sure it\u2019s a fully encapsulated product for the rider for those long-distance races, to make them go as fast as possible and save as much energy as possible for the run leg at the end of the race.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So how exactly can the new Speed Concept make you faster? And what makes it a \u2018complete triathlon solution\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Improved aerodynamics save you serious time<\/b><\/h2>\n
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In designing the new Speed Concept, the team at Trek looked at the whole system (the rider and the bike), rather than the bike on its own. Throughout the process, they paid close attention to the topology of the airflow around the rider and used that as a basis for the designs. That\u2019s because they know that most of the drag reduction comes from the rider, not from the bike.<\/span><\/p>\n

The result was aerodynamic improvements across the whole design. John Davis, the brand\u2019s aerodynamicist, said: \u201cEvery little part of the bike has been touched. We saw really marginal gains on each of these [elements] in CFD (computational fluid dynamics), but then you go into the wind tunnel and you\u2019re able to see these gains in the wind tunnel, too. Then you can combine them all for a final product that really has a big improvement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n