2015 VeloNews Buyer's Guide: 2015 Trek Silque SLX

2015 Endurance Bike for Women that are Occasional Racers, Century Riders, and Serious Weekend Warriors

 Endurance bikes are designed to be the comfortable cousin of traditional road bikes. The bike will still be light, efficient, and powerful, but with a little more emphasis on comfort. These bikes have a slightly relaxed geometry and frames designed to be smooth and light, instead of just light. For example, compared to traditional road bikes, the handlebars on endurance bikes are closer to the level of the seat height instead of below, allowing for a more upright position, and the wheelbase is a bit longer to create a more stable ride.

The Silque's new geometry is built around a taller head tube, shorter top tube, shorter chain stays and a racier fork than the Domane, yet they still share the IsoSpeed decoupler technology and all the comfort that brings. There is no doubt the Silque firmly treads the ground between and also overlaps both race machine and comfy endurance bike genres.

The frame is beautifully made from Trek's high end OCLV 6 Series carbon and comes ready prepped for electronic gears, with ports for cable routing and internal battery position in the seat mast, perfect should you wish to upgrade later. The high-tech carbon composition gives the Silque a very different ride feel from the Domane.

Check out our video on the Trek Silque SL



Roadcc.com's Verdict:

Compliant, versatile and light; could easily hold its own in a race or head out for a full day in the hills

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All-New Womens Bike From Trek: Slique (Endurance)

2014 Brings An All New Women's Bike With Re-designed Women's Specific Geometry

Borrowing the IsoSpeed decoupler and other vibration reducing technology from the Domane, the Silque uses size-specific carbon layups to provide an equally smooth ride across all frame sizes. Since they weren't borrowing an existing frame and slapping WSD components on it, the clean slate allowed them to design the geometry from the ground up for women wanting both performance and comfort. A sloping top tube and shorter seat tube provide good standover (and a lower center of gravity), while increased stack height puts them in a slightly more upright position.

Trek are offering four models: Silque, Silque SL, Silque SLX, and Silque SSL (Project One). Each are made from OCLV carbon fiber with size specific carbon fiber layups. Sizes 44-56cm.

Each model shares familiar Trek features such as the E2 tapered head tube, BB90 pressfit bottom bracket, internal cable routing compatible with electronic groupsets, Duotrap compatibility and on the two cheaper models: hidden mudguard mounts. All have the 3S integrated chain guard mounted just above the bottom bracket to prevent dropped chains.

The Silque offers a Shimano Tiagra 10-speed built bike with Bontrager tubeless ready wheels and 25mm tires and Bontrager race bars and stem and Affinity 1 WSD Saddle.

The Silque SLX features an Ultegra 11-speed groupset with Bontrager Race wheels, 23mm tires and Bontrager Race X Lite finishing kit. And you can customize your own bike through Trek's Project One bike builder.

For the handling, they put it smack in between the racy Madone and the all-day Domane. The chainstay length splits the difference, so it's more stable at speed or on gravel than the Madone, but a little snappier than the Domane. It shares the Madone's BB drop, which keeps everything a bit lower to the ground for quicker turning response.

Come to Bumstead's Bicycles for all your cycling needs.

We are located at 1038 W. 4th St in Ontario, CA.
You can reach us by phone at (909) 984-9067

www.bumsteadbikes.com