The mud – or mud this 12 months – is slowly settling after a weekend of implausible racing at Unbound Gravel 2024.
The racing there offers heaps of recent and attention-grabbing gravel tech, merchandise and hacks to cope with the difficult route. We have a premium Unbound mega tech gallery so that you can take pleasure in, together with a pair of custom-painted Factor Ostros, a brace of canary yellow Colnago G4-Xs and three Felt gravel race bikes.
One bike that we practically missed is what seems to be a brand new Trek Checkpoint gravel rig, teased on-line by the model itself, and proven up in a number of sneaky pictures.
We do not know if this bike will probably be a Checkpoint or a brand-new mannequin. Many manufacturers have a number of gravel bikes of their lineup, with racy fashions alongside extra adventure-friendly fashions. Trek nonetheless solely has the Checkpoint as a devoted gravel bike, alongside the Boone cyclocross bike and the Domane all-road bike.
Trek additionally has a brand new street bike within the works and we aren’t positive of the title of that bike but both, with the rumours suggesting it is going to be an amalgamation of the Madone and the Emonda. With that in thoughts, let’s not assume something right here.
Details of the brand new gravel bike are even scarcer than the street bike, however we predict it is protected to say a brand new bike is on the best way, together with maybe a brand new built-in carbon fibre handlebar and stem, and Bontrager gravel tyres from what we will make out from our on-line snooping.
The @trekbikes Instagram account made the under publish. Blanking out the brand new bike and pretending it isn’t there’s a technique of making a little bit of constructive chat forward of a brand new bike launch.
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We did, nevertheless, handle to search out a number of sneaky pictures, courtesy of the official Unbound press pictures, and the MAAP.CC Instagram account, displaying of the brand new bike below racers Russell Finsterwald and Hayley Hunter Smith, each of whom race for the Trek Driftless gravel race crew.
The bike raced by Finsterwald (and sure a number of different athletes) has an everyday seatpost as an alternative of the built-in unit with topper mast discovered on the prevailing top-level Checkpoint SLR.
It seems as if the Isospeed has been redesigned, with a single pivot level sitting simply in entrance of the seatpost, and a seat tube that is an excellent quantity deeper than the seatpost that sits inside it. Interestingly, the down tube storage field appears to have disappeared. Will this be a race-focused, pared-back mannequin?
There additionally seems to be prime tube mounts for luggage which the prevailing bike has, and a carbon built-in handlebar we assume from the Bontrager part household.
We’ll maintain our eyes peeled for extra particulars and see if Trek will give us any particulars within the meantime, and we’ll you should definitely replace this story once we know extra.