£ 11,750 • 29 in and 27.5 in (XS/S) • trekbikes.com
In the August issue we showed you the Fuel EXe, a mid-powered e-bike that looks (and even sounds) just like a regular pedal-powered bike. This time, Trek has flipped it the other way with the new Fuel EX, an analogue bike that looks like the EXe in almost every way, right down to the suspension travel, components, frame profile, and custard-yellow paint job. Honestly, unless you put them together, you’d never know.
So put them together I did. This is more than just wanting more time to bomb around on two ridiculously expensive bikes. Although there is a bit of that in it. No, Trek has made the two bikes deliberately close in both looks and performance because it wants riders to make a choice between them on how much assistance they want. None or 50Nm. Not on how the bikes look, how much travel they bring or the ride
