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Trek Superfly 100 AL

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Size / 15.5", 17.5", 19", 21", 23"

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• Frame Alpha Platinum Aluminum w/ABP Convert, E2 tapered head tube, magnesium swing link, G2 Geometry, 110mm travel
• Wheels Formula DC51 15mm alloy axle, alloy front hub; Bontrager sealed cartridge bearing alloy rear hub w/ Bontrager Mustang Disc 32-hole Tubeless Ready rims
• Wheel Size 29"
• Tires Bontrager 29-1 Expert, 29x2.20"
• Crank SRAM , SRAM S1000, 44/33/22
• Front Derailleur SRAM X7, SRAM X7
• Rear Derailleur SRAM X7, SRAM X7
• Shifters SRAM X7, SRAM X7, 10 speed
• Brakeset Avid, Avid Elixir 1 hydraulic disc brakes
• Handlebar Bontrager Low Riser, 31.8mm, 5mm rise, 9 degree sweep
• Saddle Bontrager Evoke 1
• Seatpost Bontrager SSR, 31.6mm, 12mm offset
• Stem Bontrager Race Lite, 31.8mm, 7 degree
• Headset FSA NO.57SC, E2, semi-cartridge bearings

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Trek superfly 100 al elite review.

Superb performance, decent value and build kit, and impressive speed, the entry-level Trek Superfly 100 packs a punch. It’s fast everywhere, the lively suspension tames rough trails and the handling is precise and predictable.

The Superfly 100 has a balanced and composed ride with extremely good handling that is easy to live with. The suspension provides speed, comfort and efficiency on the trails, with a playfulness that many cross-country bikes (and, dare I say it, some 29ers) fall short on. Not so with the Superfly 100 though.

The geometry has been honed over many years, Fisher have been doing big wheels a very long time, and the G2 geometry produces handling that is well-mannered and lacking the ‘wagon wheel’ complaints often levelled at 29ers. It’s also a playful bike, for one that is aimed clearly at cross-country, it’s easy to loft the front wheel and launch it into the air, place the tyres precisely where you want them, and makes light work of the most technical trails.

It’s clearly a cross-country bike and covers terrain with a ferocious appetite. Just point it where you want to go, stamp on the pedals and it launches forward. It climbs, descends and traverses rocks, roots and dirt with startling ability. The plush suspension copes with any situation you can put it in. It’s very active and copes with everything from small ripples to large drops.

The Superfly 100 gives you the confidence to rip up any trail at warp speed. It’s stable at high speeds and in the air, it’s precise and nimble at slower speeds through fiddly techy trails. The big wheels eat up the miles and give buckets of traction, and the 28lb weight, which some may see as a tad porky, wasn’t noticeable during riding.

You really can leap on the Superfly 100 and forget you’re on a 29er. So you can concentrate on enjoying the ride. The Superfly 100 rides extremely well. Can you tell I like it?

The Alpha Platinum Aluminium tubeset is manipulated into a smart looking frame with oversized profiles where it needs beefing up. The curved chunky downtube forms the basis for the frame, with a straight top tube under which the suspension linkage and Fox shock are mounted. There’s plenty of standover clearance on this 19in size.

So much centres on chainstay length with 29ers and the Superfly’s 452mm chainstays are a little on the stretched side, but certainly not by very much. The Specialized Camber I recently tested has only slightly shorter 447mm chainstays, but the Superfly boasts a shorter wheelbase, 1139mm compared to 1147mm.

The only hallmark of the Gary Fisher heritage in the Superfly, aside from the small signature on the top tube, is the G2 geometry. Fisher was an early advocate of larger wheels, and his approach to the geometry was a fork with an offset crown. This gives the fork a steeper angle without upsetting the head angle or wheelbase of the bike, and the head angle is 71.0°. It works too, producing precise handling with none of the vagueness and ‘slowness’ of some 29ers.

There’s loads of clearance around the rear triangle for mud to fall through, and it happily takes 2.3in tyres with space to spare. Trek employs the excellent ABP (Active Braking Point), which provides very active suspension even under braking.

Up front there’s a tapered head tube to stiffen the front end, and there’s a press fit bottom bracket, allowing the downtube to be very wide for a large weld junction, all ensuring the frame offers a decent level of stiffness. It isn’t the stiffest frame though, and compared to the Santa Cruz Tallboy it doesn’t feel as tight when the going gets fast and erratic. It’s not enough to deter from the ride performance though.

The Float Evolution CTD rear shock provides 110mm of travel and has a very active feel. The shock provides a wide range of damping options at the flick of a lever, from nearly locked out to fully open. For general riding the trail mode offered the best balance for 90% of situations, saving the descend mode for the longer descents. The suspension feels very active with a slight linear characteristic. Support in the mid-stroke is good, preventing wallow when loading up through bermed corners.

Setting the suspension is also straightforward with the clip-on sag clip, but Specialized’s Autosag is hard to beat for sheer simplicity.

The Fox 32 Float Evolution fork has 100mm of travel and shares the new CTD low-speed compression dial, I found the trail setting offered the best damping compromise for most riding. In descend mode it would blow through the travel too easily on rougher faster descents. The 15mm bolt-thru axle combines with the Convert quick-release rear axle, which can be switched to a 142x12mm setup.

The suspension really impressed. It’s controlled with good damping, the rear never kicks back under high loads, and it’s very efficient. There is stacks of grip on offer, particularly at the rear wheel, which makes even the loosest rockiest steep climbs scale-able. The fork was controlled and provided good support and paired well with the rear suspension.

At around £2,000 the AL Elite represents the entry point into the Superfly 100 range and is built up with hard-working kit that has sailed through the test period. Shimano SLX shifters, XT Shadow rear mech and a M552 triple chainset all worked brilliantly with no attention required. With the 11-36 cassette out back the triple provides a huge raft of ratios, but a 2×10 setup would suit this bike better. Shimano don’t do an affordable 2×10 chainset yet, but the next model up in the Superfly 100 range makes the switch. Triple chainsets just feel a bit dated in this day and age.

Shimano’s SLX brakes are excellent stoppers, really some of the best on the market for this bracket of bike right now in my opinion. The brake levers are a bit on the stubby side but there’s enough power for easy one-finger braking. The knurled dial makes easy lever reach adjustment on the fly. The brakes bedded in quickly and the pads are still showing good life in them yet, and never made a noise.

Bontrager’s Mustang 32-hole wheels are good rollers but I had to switch the Bontrager 29-1 Expert 2.2in tyres after the first ride. I replaced them with a pair of Continental Mountain King 2.2in tyres to provide the sort of traction that the stock tyres just can’t offer on anything but bone-dry trails, and those are rare in this country.

The fact this is a bike aimed at cross country shows in the speccing of a 105mm stem and 690mm bars. I switched them both out for a 60mm stem and 740mm bars, as much for personal preference as anything, but the shorter/wider cockpit really opened up the Superfly 100 on the more exciting trails, and livened up the handling as well.

Super quick and adept at tackling trails at blistering speed, the Superfly 100 lives up to the bill of being a rapid cross country bike. It belies its 28lb weight with decent speed on the climbs and the excellent suspension helps to cover ground fast. Gary Fisher has been designing 29ers longer than most and that shows in the Superfly 100, it’s a very accomplished bike. But it is its playfulness and handling that makes it a very adept and entertaining trail bike for those who just like to enjoy a weekend blast and want to have fun. It’s very similar in nature to the Specialized Camber, but the Superfly 100 just edges ahead.

Price: £2,200 More information: Trek Superfly 100 AL Elite

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Trek Superfly review

Proven and well-natured performer

justin loretz

Trek, or more specifically Gary Fisher, were the first big name to really ‘get’ 29ers. This understanding of the big-wheel phenomenon is clear from their design philosophy. Their bikes look different and ride differently to other 29ers.

• Highs: The Superfly is easy to ride fast and easy to ride slow
• Lows: It needs a bigger front tyre
• Buy if... You want a go-anywhere, do-anything racer with upgrade potential

Trek’s commitment to carbon is one of the longest-standing in the industry. Their Optimum Compaction Low Void (OCLV) monocoques have 20 years of iterative tweaks to offer frames that are stiff, light and blessed with a comfort factor that makes many other bikes feel like church pews.

Gary Fisher’s G2 geometry reduces trail (the distance between a line to the floor through the centreline of the steerer and a line falling vertically to the ground), which Trek use to increase steering stability. Many mountain bikers like this characteristic, as it enhances performance and confidence on steep or loose surfaces. Add in a tapered head tube for a stiffer front end and a wide, strong, press-fit BB90 bottom bracket, and the Superfly frame is ready for your power.

The Shimano transmission and brakes mix eye-catching XT rear and SLX front derailleurs, a non-series triple chainset, SLX brakes and that solid workhorse, a RockShox Reba fork. The rest of the bike is a trip through the Bontrager catalogue, with everything from grips to tyres from the Trek component arm. No one liked the overuse of blue anodising, which cheapens an otherwise tidy bike. We’d like a slightly more aggressive front tyre too.

All of our testers commented upon the Superfly's easy-riding nature. It goes exactly where it’s pointed, exploiting whatever grip the fast-rolling 2.2in Bontrager 29-1 tyres can find. The Trek gets you doing the basics right – climbing in the saddle without having to over reach, carving turns, railing around uphill switchbacks and letting you take liberties on line choice. Not having to jig about in the saddle to bring both wheels into play is refreshing.

This bike has a proven track record for performance, with the same frame being ridden to numerous World Cup podium spots. That the Trek was also popular with less experienced riders speaks volumes – it has a true pedigree not just as a speed machine, but for riding on dirt. There are more glamorous bikes, but few that ride as well as the Superfly.

This article was originally published in What Mountain Bike magazine, available on Apple Newsstand and Zinio .

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Review: 2013 Trek Superfly 100

• A full pound lighter than last year's frame
• It's a full-on race bike with slightly less travel and a little higher bb than the previous generation
• The spec is excellent from the components to the bars and saddle
• It's purpose-built for speed with no compromises
• Dropper post compatible with internal top tube routing
• Stiffness is excellent and better than previous generation
• Delivers a good value for the level of frame and components in the XT package
• The wheels are plenty stiff with one of the best tubeless systems available
• The frame is a work of art and it is finished well with internal cable routing and down tube protection system
• 23.85 lb actual weight for medium without pedals is very impressive

• The bike does not have great range as an all-around bike
• The Bontrager XR-1 tire in the front is quite limiting
• Bottom bracket is a bit high and rear shock ramps up quickly for trail/fun use
• $9k for the Pro SL model?

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In which ways is it more refined than the Tallboy?  

im riding a 25.5 lbs 5 inch travel 29er full xt for4000 how is 6000 good value??  

2013 is made in Taiwan. 2012 1 pound heavier is made in USA. Trek continues to lay off workers without giving them a chance while raising the price of their bikes. Now that is a good deal!  

Does the Superfly still have issues with cracked carbon frames? This was a real problem right during the Fisher buyout, when the only 29er carbon frames available were the Superfly and Santa Cruz Tallboy. Fortunately I went with the Tallboy at the time, but did love the speed of the Superfly.  

There's nothing wrong with your current bike setup. It's the rider that's need to loose the weight! Why is this bike made in Taiwan at pennies on the dollar cost more than my car again?  

Don't forget that it has less travel and a higher BB so basically there is nothing revolutionary about it... just less frame.  

pmiddlebrook1

For that cash I can buy two bikes and produce different values and exceed the one goal of trek. Lost and confused and sales will validate that effort. A good re-buy on ebay. Trek maybe light but uncomfortable in xc racing and long trail riding which makes up 50% percent of the market.  

Cayenne_Pepa

Look at the tiny head tube gusseting and thinner down tube. They turned what was one of Trek's stiffest, carbon platforms into an understated, ugly noodle now. I'll keep my flashy, uber-stiff, 110mm rear travel 2012 SF100 Pro that weighs a pound heavier any day. Note to Trek: Brace yourself for future warranty claims....  

I purchased my 1st superfly 100 in 2010. Warranty claim for another in 2011 and now again warranty claim in 2013. Just short of 2 years before the same problem broke the bike. Bootom swing arm pivot point carbon wears away enouph for back wheel to move 1cm either way left or right. Now I am told I am too heavy for the frame! BUT Trek advertises that there is no weight restriction on their frames. Can anyone suggest another manufacturer. My mates all have SCOTT bikes and they have different issues!!! any suggestions??  

Which brand are you riding. I'm in the market for a new bike and feel $5900 (with tax) is expensive too. Any recommendations?  

Would you buy the new Tallboy (2013) over this if you were making a decision today?  

luckymuddog

D&2001 EPX Terra shark made in Austrailia. Mine has 7-8 k mi.and 8 years of slow to lean crashing'into trees and rock filled creeks, broken bones & torn muscles no carbon probs XTR BUILD $3k 23.5 lb.  

I have a Superfly 100, 2010. I read the Bike Rumor complaint about the lateral slop on the swing arm, echoed by Jan here. I checked it and confirmed the same problem - it's kind of amazing. Mine hasn't broken yet, but now I notice the rear end sloppiness if/when I ride it. Last year I got a Specialized carbon s-works epic 29er, and I only ride it now; it's a great ride.  

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Bike summary

Bike components.

Alpha Platinum Aluminum w/ABP Convert, E2 tapered head tube, magnesium swing link, G2 Geometry, 110mm travel

Rear Derailleur

Front derailleur, shift levers.

SRAM X7, 10 speed

Shimano HG62 11-36, 10 speed

SRAM S1000, 44/33/22

Formula DC51 15mm alloy axle, alloy front hub; Bontrager sealed cartridge bearing alloy rear hub w/Bontrager Mustang Disc 32-hole Tubeless Ready rims

Bontrager 29-1 Expert, 29x2.20"

Avid Elixir 1 hydraulic disc brakes

Bontrager Race Lite, 31.8mm, 7 degree

Bontrager Low Riser, 31.8mm, 5mm rise, 9 degree sweep

FSA NO.57SC, E2, semi-cartridge bearings

Bontrager Evoke 1

Bontrager SSR, 31.6mm, 12mm offset

Bike geometry

Model overview.

Superfly 100 AL completes the Trek Superfly model. Trek launched 123 bikes of this model so far. Check out the entire range from 2013 of this model, by clicking this link .

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Overview of components

Rear shocks give you increased comfort, control, and traction, which is important when cornering or braking. This allows you to ride faster on bumpy roads. To sum up, always consider getting a bike that has a rear shock as well.

The wheels on Superfly 100 AL are the 29″ aluminum type. With 29″ wheels, bumps will feel lighter and you’ll gain more speed on descends, compared to smaller wheel-sized bikes. However, these wheels are not ideal for smaller people.

For your safety, it is important to have quality breaks on your bike. Trek Superfly 100 AL has Hydraulic Disc brakes installed. With Hydraulic Disc brakes, you’ll be able to stop on a dime, even in wet or icy conditions. To sum up, you can ride your bike with confidence.

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On a long ride or during the wee small hours out on track at a 24hr race, it’s not unusual to get a song stuck in your head. Traditionally it’s something dire, like Peter Allen’s ‘Rio’. But on board this bike, the groove is strong; feel the soul, channel the year 1972. It’s Superfly. We …

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