New Gravel e-Bikes From Trek: SL 5, SL 6 AXS, SL 7 AXS
All right, jumping into this week’s news. Let’s take a closer look at that new gravel bike from Trek. So, there’s the SL5, the SL6 AXS, and the SL7 AXS. And, uh, there’s a lot in common between them. Just some spec differences here. So, all feature the TQ HPR60 mid drive, and that has been recently upgraded to uh, 350 watts of peak power and 60 N me of torque. There’s also an internal 360 battery with an estimated 50 m of range. The bikes have carbon frames and they come with bond trigger uh Garona or herona. I’m not sure the pronunciation of that. Uh pro I believe it’s my Shirona. My Shirona Pro 700c by 42mm tires. Uh thank you Griffin. Anytime. Uh they do have capacity for up to 50mm wide tires though for those who want a little bit of extra traction and cushion. And uh the weights here are going to vary by spec and size, but if we’re looking at the u medium large frames that have tubless setups, we’re looking at between 30 and 31 lbs regardless. Uh so diving into the SL5 here. This one has a 12speed Shimano GRX drivetrain. There’s alloy wheels, a carbon fork, and then it has class 3 speeds. The SL6 AXS has the 12-speed Stram Rival or GX Eagle AXS drivetrain, as well as alloy wheels, a carbon fork and class 3 speeds. And then the SL7 AXS has a 13-speed Stram Force AXS drivetrain along with carbon wheels, a Rock Shocks Rudy XPLR fork with 40 mm of travel, and that one is a class 2 going by the website there. So, yeah, a lot of pretty promising stuff. Uh, pretty excited out there. Looks like a nice range of differences and it’s pretty interesting to see the Rock Shock Rock Shocks Rudy suspension fork there as well. Absolutely. This was one of those things, you know, our buddy Mike over at Electric Bike Review, we showed this to him. He’s kind of the road gravel person and took him all of like half second to be like, “Oh, I want that.” So, it’s a really good looking bike. Really good looking setup, too, especially up on that SL 7 axis. Trek checkpoint’s going to be a little bit hard for me to say. I’m just going to call it the Trek point moving forward. Yeah, I already messed up one take saying the checkpoint. We’re on take two of the news section, folks. Hopefully, we don’t go to three.
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