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Having spent a while concentrating on Time Trials I am looking to get back into some off road stuff. Being a diesel engine the longer races where the sprint off the start is less critical appeal the most. For most of the riding around my local area in SE England a hardtail is probably sufficient. I do have a 120mm front & Rear fs bike on order for trips to trail centres etc which I could use if a race course was particularly gnarly, but have been looking for a more race focused bike for less challenging terrain. With a slightly crock back the Trek Procaliber sl frameset is appealing particularly as it reminds me of the old Trek STP I once owned. Though the Supercaliber also seems an interesting proposition sitting between the hardtails and bigger travel XC rigs. Any reviews on either bike welcome or alternatives options.
A little bit of rear bounce is always a good thing on long distance stuff, more comfort, less fatigue, more forgiving when knackered = faster overall.
Mate has a Supercaliber now - upgraded from a Procaliber. It has almost completely supplanted his 5010, with the latter only used on trail centre days. He also claims it is his "gravel" bike 😀
Mate has a Supercaliber now – upgraded from a Procaliber. It has almost completely supplanted his 5010, with the latter only used on trail centre days. He also claims it is his “gravel” bike
Well after that last gravel thread and me grudgingly accepting that perhaps my Superfly is a better gravel bike than my gravel bike, I would LOVE to upgrade to a Supercaliber. Great paint schemes as well.
Having sold my Procaliber two years ago and brought a supercaliber the supercaliber is great bike should never work as well as it does very fast will go down a lot more than you think you need to try one know someone had procaliber first never used it since he got the supercaliber .
Supercaliber surely cant be 12.5 kg 's.? I had a Trek superfly full suss which was just over 10.2 kg's . Wish I hadnt sold it to be honest . Would have been a great wee bike packing rig.
I'd have thought the Supercaliber would be way less than a fuel.
Supercaliber 9.7 is 11.5kg
I have a supercaliber on order, placed in September, initial estimate was Feb, now June,
On the weight point, the "cheap" ones aren't that well specced, forks and wheels could be lighter. The expensive ones are light. but when the 9.6 costs less than the frame ???? why buy the frame only???
Yep that's a strange one! Unless they planned to use a different lay-up but current supply issues etc stopped that it doesn't make much sense to be selling a complete bike for less than the frameset especially as the frameset doesn't come with say a higher spec fork or even a seatpost or bars.
Thanks, I noticed the Trek team still use the Procaliber on a few courses on the WC XCO calendar so did wonder if a hardtail was maybe a better option for most UK events. Though from all the feedback on here and the reviews online the Supercaliber is ultra efficient even on the kind of gravel drags a low weight hardtail excels on.
Thanks, I noticed the Trek team still use the Procaliber on a few courses on the WC XCO calendar so did wonder if a hardtail was maybe a better option for most UK events.
They wouldn’t be able to sell procalibers to rich middle aged men to race their local XC series on if they didn’t! If you wanted a race hardtail and trek only used their full-sussers you might go for the BMC two stroke that you had seen on red bull tv!