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Speed Concept

Speed Concept is a lot of things, but above all, it’s fast. Our most aerodynamic bike makes an ideal triathlon machine and a great choice for TT enthusiasts, who know every second matters. Plus, it’s an exceptional value: adjustability, integration, customization options, carbon aero wheels, and a 12-speed drivetrain—all in a super aero bike built for flat-out speed.

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You’re out to win, and you’re looking for the aero advantage other triathlon bikes simply can’t provide. You understand fit is a crucial part of going fast, and you want a bike that’s infinitely customizable to your perfect aero position.

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• Top of the line lightweight 500 Series OCLV Carbon frame with drag-reducing Kammtail Virtual Foil (KVF) tube shaping
• Full SRAM Red eTap AXS group with power meter
• Fully integrated handlebar extension and stem
• Bontrager Hilo Pro triathlon-specific saddle for an aggressive and aero position
• Aerodynamic Bontrager XXX Aeolus 6 wheels

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When you ride Speed Concept, you’re gonna go fast. A lightweight carbon frame, aero tube shaping, carbon wheels, and an 12-speed SRAM Red AXS drivetrain mean speed and efficiency where it counts.

Triathletes, time trialists, general speed demons—this one’s for you.

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Trek Speed Concept 2.5 tri bike review

Sharp and comfy entry-level tri bike, but let down by its wheels

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Since 1976, there’s been no disputing the racing record of Trek. In both cycling and tri, their podium list is very impressive.

Their top-of-the-range Speed Concept 9 is a known flyer , but how much of that speed informs their entry-level tri bike?

The first impression of the Trek’s frame is that it looks fast. The deep-profiled truncated tubing is right on the money with current aero thinking and carries right on up through the carbon seatpost (although, if you look a bit closer, some very ugly welding does make you question how much love has gone into building this frame).

Compatibility with the SC Speed Box on the top tube is a trickle-down bonus and the carbon fork will also accept a SpeedTrap sensor. Even on top-end bikes, we’re often left a bit cold by wheels and these ones are no exception. We’re not sure what ‘Bontrager Approved’ means exactly and, although they’re probably robust trainers, they’ve no place on a race-day-ready speedster.

The groupset is SRAM Apex and sits somewhere between Shimano 105 and Tiagra price-wise. A full compact 50/34t chainset and 11-28t cassette is novice- and hill-friendly, while the SRAM 500 TT bar-end shifters won’t disappoint. The Bontrager cockpit offers plenty of adjustability and a fairly neat front end.

The front brake is a standard non-branded road caliper, but the out-of-the-wind, chainstay-mounted rear brake is an appreciated aero touch. A long Vision Aeromax tri saddle tops off the build and should provide a comfortable aero position.

The Bontrager cockpit and variable offset seatpost make dialling in your ideal ride position easy and the Trek just about accommodated our leggy 190cm frame.

Spinning out of the village and over a couple of rises, the Trek immediately feels sharp and race-ready. Through initial tight corners up on the bullhorns, its handling immediately impresses and, rather than having to be manhandled off a straight line, it wants to corner and does so extremely well.

Settling down on the aerobars for some straight-line cruising, the rough roads mean a bit of bucking from the rear end but, for an alloy TT bike, the front-end buzz is remarkably low.

The ride position feels aero and powerful, while the Vision saddle is amazingly comfortable when perched on its nose. You genuinely get a sense of the frame slicing through the air, encouraging you to ride hard knowing that little of your effort is going to waste.

Shifting from the SRAM groupset is precise and predictable, but the shifters are a little on the stiff side. Hitting some power climbs, its nimbleness comes to the fore again. Jumping from aerobars to bullhorns, it leaps forward with impressive stiffness and power transfer. It climbs far lighter than its 9.72kg weight and performs especially well on shorter out-of-the-saddle efforts.

On longer-seated drags, there’s a dullness and lack of fizz. The finger of blame for that has to be pointed at the far-from-inspiring wheelset. Fortunately, you’ve got the spinning-friendly 34/38 bottom gear that, even with square wheels, should at least get you up any hill, even if not especially quickly.

When descending, the Trek is an absolute joy, with the speed-scrubbing power of the brakes a rather pleasant surprise. Combine that with its sharp handling and stiff acceleration out of the bends and you’ve got a bike well suited to technically challenging courses.

Handling: 87%

Sharp, nimble and remarkably road bike-like in feel.

Plenty of drip-down aero features on the tunnel-proven frame, but poor wheels.

There are better on-paper deals, but would they ride as well?

Comfort: 81%

Surprisingly good for an alloy TT bike.

OVERALL: 79%

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First look: Trek Speed Concept time trial bike

Out-of-the-box thinking for Trek's new Speed Concept time trial bike

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Trek Bicycles has borrowed a page from automotive aerodynamic design for its latest Speed Concept time trial machine, first seen under Alberto Contador (Astana) at last month's Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and used by teammates Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer at the 2009 Tour de France.

Contador finished second in Monaco , as Astana teammate Andreas Klöden took fourth, Leipheimer fifth, and Armstrong tenth.

Just as the sharply squared-off trailing edges reduce drag on high-performance vehicles – and high-mileage ones like the Toyota Prius – Trek says the unconventional shape will make its new Speed Concept the most slipperiest machine on the road.

The Speed Concept's Kamm tail 'virtual airfoil' design features what is essentially an 8:1 airfoil but with an abruptly chopped trailing edge.

According to Trek, air passing over the Kamm airfoil surface simply doesn't realise the rear section is missing and still cleanly reconvenes afterwards as if it was still there.

It's a decidedly unintuitive idea but it's very well proven in motorsports and Trek says it has also validated the concept with its own wind tunnel testing.

According to Trek, the Kamm tail truncated airfoil (second from right) behaves identically to a full 8:1 cross-section (far right) and markedly better than a 3:1 section (second from left), especially at higher yaw angles. And in spite of appearances, there is no additional stub mounted to the end of the Kamm section; the airflow just makes it look like there is.

Quite conveniently, the truncated Kamm airfoil thus yields the lower drag figures of an 8:1 section but still neatly fits within the UCI's now-infamous 3:1 airfoil 'box'.

According to Trek, the blunter shape's aero advantage only continues to increase at greater yaw angles up to about 15 degrees, too – exactly what time trial bikes typically see in real world conditions.

Time trial bikes are all about stiffness and aerodynamics so the Speed Concept is fitted with giant chain stays to help put the power down.

Moreover, Trek claims the squared-off shape also makes for a lighter and stiffer structure. Even with its lower drag numbers, the Speed Concept prototype framesets are said to be a significant 200g lighter than the current Equinox TTX SSL and yet 17 percent more rigid for better handling and more efficient power transfer.

Up front, Trek adopts the increasingly popular external steerer tube design, which maintains a deeper and more aerodynamic total section depth but in an especially narrow package that still maintains good front-end stiffness by clamping both ends of the head tube.

The smooth fork crown leaves a lot of room around the wheel and tire for air to pass through.

However, unlike the inline stems used by Giant, Scott and now Specialized, Trek sticks to a low top tube design paired with a neatly integrated aero stem plus a conventional cylindrical-clamp aero bar for greater positioning flexibility. The fork crown is decidedly roomy, too – an idea already incorporated on the TTX that supposedly eases airflow around the spinning wheel and tyre.

The Speed Concept boasts an impressive level of system integration as well, all in an effort to decrease drag. The BB90 bottom bracket design is borrowed from the road-going Madone but the Speed Concept goes far further with brakes that are fully incorporated into the frame structure with only a smidgeon of caliper arm and brake pad peeking out from the otherwise-smooth aero skin.

Integrating the rear brake into the chain stays makes for a much cleaner seat stay and seat tube junction.

The caliper arms themselves are neatly contoured to match to the surrounding area – just below the head tube up front and down in the chain stays behind the bottom bracket down below. As a result, the Speed Concept's brakes aren't just hidden within the frame – they're <i>part</i> of the frame.

The non-driveside chain stay is an especially busy area. In addition to the rear brake, that frame member also houses Trek's new DuoTrap wireless speed and cadence sensor, which picks up information from the rear wheel and crank magnets while barely interrupting airflow.

If the idea of integrated electronics in bicycles still seems foreign to you, you'd better get used to it – the idea is here to stay and is only bound to grow from here.

Of course, cables are fully internally routed, starting from the controls and running inside the bar, then taking a turn through the stem and then right into the top of the top tube – and all of it is fully hidden from the exterior.

Since the brakes themselves are internal, too, those lines never see the light of day save for installation and maintenance while the front and rear derailleur cables only exit just before they're needed.

Cables exit only right where they're needed.

It's perhaps a headache for the mechanics but that's unfortunately of little consequence when valuable seconds are on the line.

Given how infrequently these bikes are apt to be used, hopefully the process won't have to be repeated often, either.

Before you're tempted to head to your local dealer with a bag full of cash, Trek says the Speed Concept is strictly a team-only item at the moment and is still in the development phase.

However, Trek marketing director Dean Gore admitted that the company absolutely has plans to offer the bike to the public but likely not before the 2011 model year.

This is likely to be little more than a white, yellow and black blur come Saturday's time trial.

Though most of the design work has been completed, there is still more to be done to make the Speed Concept easier to assemble and maintain for non-Pro Tour mechanics.

The UCI didn't force Trek's hand depending on what it says on Saturday, however. According to new technical guidelines, race bikes now must be "marketed" or "marketable" at the time of competition and if need be, Trek will accelerate the development timeline accordingly or perhaps even offer the Speed Concept as some sort of special order item to the public in its current form. Either way, Gore was pleased that Armstrong, Contador and Leipheimer used these innovative machines in Saturday's opening Tour de France time trial and beyond.

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It’s clear Trek spent a lot of time using the Hawaii and Arizona Ironman courses to develop the new Speed Concept. A rider who averaged 20mph on the previous Speed Concept will save 99 seconds on the Hawaii course, and 148 seconds on the latter course by riding the new version, according to Trek.

Also, Trek took Fabian Cancellara to the Valencia Velodrome to validate their claims in the real world. They say that, "T he new Speed Concept saved Fabian the drag  equivalent of 30-40 seconds in a one-hour time trial."  

Obviously, a one-hour time trial takes one hour, no matter how fast you ride it! What Trek are saying is that if it took Cancellara to ride a given distance in an hour on the previous Speed Concept, he'd cover the same distance in 59:20 to 59:30mins on the new one.

Sounds quick, then. Trek have modified the Kammtail Virtual Foil (KVF) tube profiles (with the trailing edge chopped off), updated the shape to improve aerodynamics in a wider range of yaw angles compared to the previous bike. They’ve added ‘fillet’s between the main frame tubes to increase side surface area to reduce drag at higher yaw angles, which also act to stiffen the frame.

There’s a new fork, with an airfoil rather than KVF shape, which Trek say causes only a small weight penalty but results in lower drag design. The design has a 6:1 high-aspect-ratio which makes it UCI-illegal. Trek do appear to have designed this bike for Ironman competitors. We assume they’ll be a 3:1 fork for road events.

Trek have also reduced the frontal area - down 30% they say and 13% in the seat tube and down tube - all without any reduction in stiffness, according to Trek's men in lab coats. Another aero change that is UCI-illegal is the for triathletes only Speed Fin, an aero cover for the rear brake, with a tail to improve aerodynamics. There’s an integrated bridge to stiffen the brake as well, to improve braking performance. The UCI compliant Speed Concept has this tail removed so you can go a bit slower, but be UCI race legal. Thanks UCI!

All cables are routed internally, and the battery for a Shimano Di2 groupset is housed inside the frame.

Trek have managed to reduce the assembly time required of the new bike, with fewer parts. They say the build time is half what it was before. They also cite easier adjustments as a result, so getting the correct fit should be easier. there’s a lot less bolts on the stem, pad holders and extensions. The seatpost now has a simple two-bolt clamp.

Retaining the same stack and reach measurements as the previous bike, they’ve increased the range of reach significantly. They’ve moved the base bar forward to increase knee clearance and the brake levers shift back 30mm to they’re easier to reach. The bar extensions are available in four versions (S-bend, straight, ergo and short ergo) and they each offer 40mm of adjustment.

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David worked on the road.cc tech team from 2012-2020. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds, and you can now find him over on his own YouTube channel David Arthur - Just Ride Bikes . 

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Triathlete magazine senior editor Aaron Hersh studied the Giant Trinity Advanced SL, the Specialized Shiv and the Trek Speed Concept 9 Series to see how they perform not as time trial (TT) bikes, but as triathlon bikes. Read the review by Hersh, and then scroll down to see detailed photos of all three bikes. All photos by Triathlete photo editor Nils Nilsen.

Every inch of a bike contributes to its aerodynamic drag, but its leading edge is the most critical because it hits clean, undisturbed air. Engineers have refined nearly every component on the front end of the fastest tri bikes—wheels, fork, headtube, aerobars—in order to minimize drag. The only exception is the system that attaches the aerobar to the frame. These inefficiently shaped tubes, called the steerer tube and the stem, jut out into the wind and create a huge portion of the bike’s aerodynamic resistance. Giant, Specialized and Trek believe that improving this attachment system is the next frontier in bicycle aerodynamics, and all three companies just released show-stopping tri bikes that feature groundbreaking handlebar attachment systems.

Some preexisting tri bikes boast integrated systems such as those on the Shiv, Speed Concept 9 Series and Trinity Advanced SL, but these three rigs have taken aero bike design up a level. Specialized, Giant and Trek are three of the world’s biggest bike brands and they threw their resources behind the development of these bikes that smaller manufacturers cannot match. Each brand asserts its bike is the fastest in the world—the industry’s most experienced aerodynamicists have honed every detail on these machines.

All three are phenomenally aerodynamic, but a bike must have more than a low drag coefficient to be ideal for triathlon. It needs to fit correctly, carry nutrition and function smoothly because, unlike road time trialists, multisport athletes ride long distances then get off and run. We studied the Giant Trinity Advanced SL, the Specialized Shiv and the Trek Speed Concept 9 Series to see how they perform not as time trial (TT) bikes, but as triathlon bikes.

Aero front ends

The Shiv and the Trinity Advanced SL both support the aerobar from beneath with an aerodynamic nose cone and clamp it from above with a flat stem. This system transitions directly from the aerobar to the frame and eliminates the empty space behind the steerer tube that generates a massive amount of aerodynamic drag. The nosecone elongates the airfoil shape at

the front of the bike and, again, reduces resistance. The Trinity Advanced SL and the Shiv boast the most extreme, aerodynamically uncompromising front ends of any aero bike today.

The Trek Speed Concept 9 Series has a radically different leading edge than the Shiv and the Trinity Advanced SL. Rather than adding an aerodynamic nosecone to the front of the bike, Trek replaced the conventional stem with a proprietary line of aerodynamic stems created specifically for the Speed Concept. These pieces, like conventional stems, attach above the headtube and extend out and up from the frame. This system is drastically more aerodynamic than a traditional aerobar attachment system because it replaces the round steerer tube with a highly-tuned airfoil. Trek makes six different versions that can be swapped out to alter the height or reach of the aerobars, just like a conventional stem.

Replacing the stem and steerer tube with a more aerodynamic bar clamp is simple. The hard part is making a streamlined clamp that can accommodate a wide range of cyclists. Both bar attachment styles are dramatically more aerodynamic than a traditional stem and steerer tube and drag characteristics alone are enough to make these three bikes excellent time trial machines. While a pro time trialist is coddled by a staff of glorified caretakers after a race triathletes, however, have more work to do after dismounting the bike. Our race is only just starting at T2 so a triathlon bike needs to fit comfortably to allow the athlete to run fast off the bike. No matter how aerodynamic, a tri bike must fit the rider, and these three machines all fit differently.

Fit and adjustability

Traditional stems come in a variety of lengths and angles, which allow a single bike to accommodate many different fits, but the unique front-ends on the Shiv, Trinity Advanced SL and Speed Concept are not compatible with conventional stems. This means that each bike’s fit characteristics are determined only by the components its manufacturer provides.

The Shiv was designed as a TT bike, not a tri bike, and Specialized makes no apologies for that. It has a slack seat tube angle and a long reach from the saddle to the handlebars. The aerobar extensions and pads can be raised with shims but they cannot be drawn back to the rider. These fit attributes mean that the Shiv is only appropriate for athletes that ride in an old-school position, similar to a road time trialist.

The Trinity Advanced SL suffers from the same lack of reach adjustment as the Shiv but it has a tri-friendly 78-degree seat tube angle that helps compensate for its length. Like the Shiv, the Trinity can accommodate a high aerobar position but cannot shorten the distance between the rider and the aerobar. The front end of the Giant Trinity Advanced SL is not as seamlessly integrated as the Shiv but its seat tube angle allows the Trinity Advanced SL to fit triathletes that prefer to ride steep.

The Trek’s front end does not transition from the aerobar to the frame as elegantly as the Giant or the Specialized, but the Speed Concept can fit nearly any triathlete because of its versatile aerobar attachment system. The frame is built around F.I.S.T. approved, triathlon-specific geometry. Instead of offering only a single-length piece to attach the aerobars, like the Specialized and the Giant, Trek’s six different stems allow it to cover the complete spectrum of fit preference. The highly adjustable Bontrager aerobar that comes with the Speed Concept 9 Series allows the position to be tweaked to perfection. Trek’s system not only matches the adjustability of a typical tri bike, but it exceeds it.

Triathlon application

All three of these bikes are aerodynamic marvels, but the Trek is a triathlon bike, and the other two are TT bikes that can be used for triathlon. The Specialized Shiv or Giant Trinity

Advanced SL would make an incredible triathlon bike if either could accommodate your personal fit specifications. They are stable, stiff and insanely aero. Just make sure the bike fits before opening up your wallet. I don’t know which of these bikes is most aerodynamic and I’m not going to guess, but the Trek Speed Concept is built around versatile, triathlon-specific geometry and is decked out in multisport-friendly accessories. The other two cannot accommodate the some common triathlon fit preferences. The Speed Concept 9 Series’ combination of fit, adjustability, aerodynamics, drop-dead good looks and usability make it the best triathlon bike on the road today.

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Ellen van Dijk's time trial bike may be the most stunning we've ever seen

World TT champion and Hour Record holder gets new Trek Speed Concept in bling chrome finish

It's not uncommon for successful riders to receive a custom bike to commemorate their victories. In fact, nowadays, it's almost more uncommon for them not to. It's a great way for sponsors to congratulate the rider and a nice celebration of their victory. 

More importantly, it's also a marketing department's dream. It allows the brand to really draw attention to the fact that its very own bike was ridden to the highest honours in the sport. 

Naturally, whatever the victory being celebrated, the brand wants the custom bike to stand out in a crowd, but when that celebration is in relation to two of the biggest wins available in time trialling - the world championships and the hour record - a brand will want to pull out all the stops. That's exactly what Trek has done for Ellen van Dijk , who took those very honours in 2022. 

There has to be some consideration of the appropriateness of the design, of course. For a world champ, the blue-red-black-yellow-green of the rainbow bands must feature, but exactly how, where, and among which other colours is limited only by the imagination of the designer. 

Credit where credit is due because whoever Trek asked to design this Speed Concept , they've played a blinder; there's no denying it will stand out in a crowd. 

Chrome finish aside, the bike's spec is equally premium, with top tier components dressing the bike from top to bottom. 

The groupset is courtesy of Sram, with the Red eTap AXS groupset. Up front, a 56/43 chainset is paired with what looks to be a 10-33T cassette. This makes for a huge maximum gear, equivalent to a 61 x 11, while maintaining enough range to handle the hillier terrain found near to the team's training camp in Alicante. 

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Wheels come courtesy of Trek's subsidiary, Bontrager... sort of. The front is cut and dry; it's a Bontrager Aeolus RSL 75. The rear is a little more complex: it's marked up with Trek Segafredo branding, as per the team name, however, neither Trek nor Bontrager make a disc rear wheel. It's actually a Zipp wheel with the logos removed. This has been the case for the team for a number of years. If you look closely, you can see the outline of the Zipp wordmark circling the cassette. 

Both wheels are shod with Pirelli P Zero Race tyres, and differences continue here. The front is using a black valve, suggesting the tyre is set up with inner tubes, specifically the Pirelli P Zero Smartube TPU inner tubes. The rear, meanwhile, uses a gold valve, suggesting the rear is a tubular. 

The time trial extensions appear to be custom moulded to Van Dijk's arms, and the upper face has been covered in a foam material to aid comfort. At the end of these, shift buttons are integrated, and a second set of shifters is mounted near to the brake levers on the base bar, meaning Van Dijk can shift from both hand positions. 

Rounding off the build are a set of Time XPro 10 pedals, and a Bontrager Hilo Pro saddle. 

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Josh is Associate Editor of Cyclingnews – leading our content on the best bikes, kit and the latest breaking tech stories from the pro peloton.

Josh has been with us since the summer of 2019 and throughout that time he's covered everything from buyer's guides and deals to the latest tech news and reviews. On the bike, Josh has been riding and racing for over 15 years.

He started out racing cross country in his teens back when 26-inch wheels and triple chainsets were still mainstream, but he found favour in road racing in his early 20s, racing at a local and national level for Somerset-based Team Tor 2000. 

These days he rides indoors for convenience and fitness, and outdoors for fun on road, gravel, 'cross and cross-country bikes, the latter usually with his two dogs in tow.

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