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Trek 6700 Disc review

Impressively light and well equipped, but handling needs sorting

Trek 6700 Disc

Guy Kesteven

Trek’s full-suspension bikes have become some of the best-handling around in the past two years, but it seems the company’s hardtails are still playing catch-up.

There’s some good kit and a clean, lightweight chassis here if you can bargain a stem swap before you leave the shop.

Ride & handling: limited by the stem

With a low overall weight and fast-rolling tyres, the immediate impression of the bike is that it climbs and accelerates with a proper sense of urgency that racers will really appreciate.

By choosing the larger 19.5in size you’re opting for a generous amount of breathing space even with a long top tube. The long stem also helps keep you on line if you’re really grunting up (or barrelling down) a straight-line drag.

Unfortunately, that’s about the only time it does help. We can see why a designer thought a long stem made sense on a big bike, but one this long makes the steering feel distant and slow. Even after several hours on the Trek we were drifting wide or braking and wobbling round every corner, and fighting with constant over-correction or just plain falling off every time we hit a slippery tech section.

Just to check we hadn’t become too used to shorter stems, we gave the Trek to some novice riders. If anything they were even more scathing, with feedback such as, “I’m riding in Yorkshire but it feels like I’m steering in Humberside,” and, “It feels like I’m trying to bend the bike in the middle, not just steer it.” Ouch.

The combination of a long stem and relatively steep angles also made fork set-up critical. This can be avoided by changing the stem to a shorter one in the shop, but we’d rather be bartering for some free extra bits rather than just trying to create a bike that’ll corner.

With a shorter stem fitted, the Trek’s latent enthusiasm for carrying speed into technical terrain was released. The sharpness of steering and overall power response of the stiff frame makes the 6700 a real hard-kicking speed bike, too.

However, despite dropping pressures in the tyres, feel over small bumps was surprisingly harsh and clattery, even for a racer. In fact, the skinny grips actually started to get uncomfortable on longer rides.

Frame: clean & light with plenty of mud room

The frame is certainly a cleanly designed piece, making full use of the latest tube-forming shapes. The externally reinforced head tube is overlapped top to bottom by the blended ends of the down tube and top tube.

Meanwhile, the top tube is sharply triangulated and tapered before flaring out again before the seat tube. In fact, it has such a fluid look that several test riders actually thought the bike was carbon until we pointed out the weld lines.

What British riders will really appreciate is the lack of a bridge between the deep chainstays, and the clearance from the ‘monostay’ wishbone which means huge ‘fall through’ mud room around the big balloon tyres.

Other practical touches include a quick-release seat collar for easy saddle height changes, and two bottle cage mounts inside the frame, although the shaped top tube isn’t a nice place to tuck your shoulder into for traction when the tyres spin out.

The biggest gripe about the frame isn’t structural, though – it’s a size issue. For its full-suspension bikes, Trek this year introduced a new 18.5in size – in between the existing 17.5in and 19.5in sizes – and it has proved the perfect geometry for most of our test team. There’s no new size for the hardtails, though, so we’re still stuck between slightly too small and slightly too large.

Equipment: a curate’s egg

Given that the fork is exactly the same competent if not cushy Recon SL as that on the Kona Kula, it definitely can’t be blamed for the harsh feel. This makes the big front end and bulged Bontrager bars likely suspects, and the ‘basic’ Bontrager saddle doesn’t help either.

The wheels look and feel good, though, and while they gum up quickly in winter, the fat XR rubber will be welcome on baked summer trails. Shimano ‘light touch’ gears worked fine, and the Avid brakes are nice and controlled once bedded in.

Fatter grips would be on our shopping list, though, and toeclip pedals are no spec match for the SPDs on other bikes at this price.

Summary: spec changes urgently needed

There’s a good bike here, but the spec does it no favours. The already rigid and racy frame is made even less comfortable by bruising bar and grips, you’ll need different tyres for at least half the UK year and the stem desperately needs changing if you’ve any interest in singletrack.

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Hi, last weekend I bought last years model Trek 6700 (2004). I tried a few bikes and just found this one suited me best. What I was wondering is since I am quite new is what is the main significant differences between the 2004 Trek 6700 and the 2005 Trek 6500. The guy at the shop couldn't tell me a whole lot. I narrowed it down to decide between these two bikes. The 6500 had disc brakes which was a plus but the frames seemed to be identical. I just felt the 6700 was a much smoother ride for me so I went with that. Is there really that much difference between the two, the prices were identical? I am wondering if they should have been... Thanks  

Better spec on the 6700 Well, they both share the same frame. The forks are of similar quality and performance level. But the 6700 does have a nicer parts spec. You get 9 speed Shimano deore and lx instead of the cheaper 8 speed stuff on the 6500. Also get Shimano clipless pedals and a better Bontrager crankset. Don't worry about the disc brakes, you can always upgrade to them in the future. IMO you got the better bike with the 2004 6700  

jauiek said: Great thanks for the reply, I feel a little silly saying this. The guy at the store told me it was a 2004. I believed him and thought it was because the color scheme is somewhat similiar. I now realized it is a 2003, I'm kind of annoyed at that and would return it for that reason alone except for I have been riding it and it already has some scratches on it. Plus I feel a little stupid.. I read reviews looked at bikes compared prices etc....and it annoys me that I made this mistake. In hindsight I should have paid more attention, like I thought I was but I dunno... one of those stupid mistakes....So let me ask the same question but with a 2003 6700... Click to expand...

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2001 Trek 6700

Type: Mountain 27-speed

Purchased: Fundraising prize from 2001 Trek 100 picked up at On The Route Bicycles

Made: U.S.A.

Frame: Aluminum

Components: Shimano LX and XT drivetrain & brakes RockShox Judy C suspension fork Bontrager wheels, cranks, seat, stem, etc.

Additions: Speedplay Frog pedals, Topeak clamp-on rear rack, bar ends

While looking over the brochure for the 2001 Trek 100, I saw that I could get a "free" mountain bike for raising a certain amount of money for Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer . Since I was too lazy/shy to solicit money from others, I just pledged the full amount to get my bike. It cost more that way, but at least it was tax-deductible. It was a far cry from the heavy research I had done on my Bike Friday and would do in the future for my Co-Motion , but I guess it was similar to the way I bought my Fuji . Listing in the $700-900 range, the 6700 is what I would call a mid-level mountain bike (the silly mountain biking magazines would call it "entry-level"--they completely ignore the huge under-$500 segment of the market). The Trek 6700 has the great Alpha ZX aluminum frame used on more expensive Treks matched with inexpensive but decent components, including a suspension fork.

I really enjoy riding this bike. Every time I do, I keep asking myself why I don't do it more often. That said, I only use it a few times a year. I don't do any of that crazy stuff they show on commercials for SUVs or soft drinks, either--I just ride on dirt trails. But it makes me feel like when I used to ride my Mongoose on the dirt trails around the corn fields when I was 11 years old, and that's worth a lot.

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