First look: Trek offers limited-edition Ticket and Session Park
Originally posted on August 16, 2013 at 2:39 amBy Adam Newman
For nearly a decade Trek has been building dirt jump and slopestyle bikes for its sponsored athletes and mostly leaving consumers out of the equation. The Ticket Signature was briefly available as a complete bike, but with most riders preferring to build up their own ride depending on how they would use it, sales were sluggish.
Now, by combining the years of refinement on the Ticket hardtail and full-suspension models with Trek’s own Project One paint shop facilities in its office in Waterloo, Wisconsin, it will be releasing very limited runs onf special bikes under the Race Shop LTD label. Small production runs ("in the triple digits") means you better get to your local Trek shop in a hurry. First up are the three frames we saw today:
The Ticket DJ is the modern evolution of the dirt jump bike Trek has been building for years. Designed with the direct input of riders like Cam McCaul and Brandon Semenuk, it can be configured countless ways with ISCG tabs, sliding 142×12 dropouts and a derailleur hanger. It will be available in the spring, only in this blacked out paint, for $700.
The Ticket S was built to be the ultimate slopestyle bike, with 100mm of travel and 100mm-130mm forks. It matches the geometry of the hardtail so the athletes can switch bikes back and forth without having to adjust. The suspension uses Trek’s ABP linkage with a chip that allows for a small adjustment to the geometry, head angle and shock rate. It too will be available in only black, for $1,500, but will hit stores in late 2013.
The third bike is the Session Park frame. When Semenuk was preparing for the last Red Bull Rampage, he rode a modified Session with a custom swingarm that transformed the World Cup winning race bike into a more playful freeride bike. The rear travel has been shortened to 190mm while the shock rate has been made more progressive, and Semenuk said he runs his RockShox Boxxer fork at 190mm to match. The chainstays are also shorter at 420mm. It uses Trek’s patented OCLV carbon front triangle and will come in two sizes, medium and large. It will retail for $4,500 and be available in the spring.
Not into black? There will also be even more limited-edition versions of the C3 Project athletes’ custom painted bikes. First up is Ryan Howard’s stars and stripes Ticket S. Expect even more limited production runs, likely less than 100 units. When they’re gone, they’re gone, and Trek will decide which one to make next.
The Race Shop LTD program will also include other limited-edition goodies, including a straight up replica of Fabian Cancellara’s Paris-Roubaix-winning Domane road bike and the one-piece carbon fiber bar and stem used by the Trek XC race team.
Want to see the bikes in action? Check out Anthill Films‘ NotBad: