2012 Trek Remedy 9.9 Review
We’re just back from Trek’s 2012 launch in Mayrhofen, Austria. While the rest of the world’s media were drooling over the all new carbon Session 9.9, as ridden by Aaron Gwin and Tracey Mosely on the World Cup this season, we were more taken with the revised 150mm Remedy.
For 2012 Trek has managed to squeeze its DRCV shock tech into a Fox Float fork. That means that rather than one air chamber, it has two, with the second, supplementary chamber being activated as the fork (and indeed the shock) moves through its travel.
What that means on the trail is a more linear feel than a standard air fork, and one that mates better to the DRCV shock Trek has been using at the back for the last three seasons.
Most excitingly for us, most of the gripes we’ve had with 150mm bikes across the board — too steep headangles, and missing ISCG tabs — have been addressed.
For 2012 Trek has taken a degree off the headangle (slackening it to a confidence inspiring 67deg) and added ISCG tabs, so if you want to run a two rings and a chain device, you can. The market demanded it, and Trek stepped up, even on its (incredibly) lightweight carbon Remedies such as the 9.9 we got to ride in Austria.
If that slacker geometry sounds too much for your tastes, don’t worry: thanks to the new Mino link on the rear of the rocker link, you can raise the BB and steepen the headangle by half a degree.
Check out the Full Review at - http://www.mbr.co.uk/news/bike_news/trek-remedy-9-9-2012-first-ride-review/