Electric Dreams

IN A VERY SHORT TIME, E-BIKES have gone from a fringe product to mainstream. On the mountain bike side of things, I see a few in every race I enter—I’ll admit to a bit of envy when I see one easily ride up a slope steep enough where all of us on standard bikes are pushing to the start line at the summit. But I haven’t had much interaction at all with a proper drop bar road e-bike. When the Editor offered me a chance to spend a few weeks with the new Trek, I was really curious to see what it had to offer.

I don’t think I am in the