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A new era in hardtail performance

By Cycling News

published 28 September 2005

One notable absence from this year's Interbike exhibition is Trek. The company took the opportunity...

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Trek's new hardtail,(Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

A head-on look(Image credit: Steve Medcroft)

The stock 9.9 will come with all XTR and Bontrager components.(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

A head-on look at the Madone-style sinle top-tube/down-tube.(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

The production model will come with an 80mm Rock Shox SID. The team bikes Chris Eatough and Sue Haywood were riding in Mammoth were equipped with 100mm Rock Shox Reba's.(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

Trek's new hardtail, with frame construction using OCLV tubing and features modeling the Madone, weighs 300 grams less than the 9.8.(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

Asymmetrical seat stays help reduce weight and improve tyre clearence. All the production bikes will come disc-specific. Trek will offer a frame-only version with mounts for side-pull v-brakes and tabs for mounting disc-brake calipers.(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

Using Trek's OCLV 110 Carbon (instead of the OCLV Honeybcomb used in the 9.8) to construct the new 9.9 frame, Trek engineer Scott Nielson says they can make much finer refinements in geometry, shape and tubing contruction(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

A side look at the integrated headset and the knuckle in the combined top tube/down tube.(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)

A naked frame reveals the detail in the one-piece lugs that make up the connection points for the tubing. The lugs, like the headset lug shown here, are made as one piece.(Image credit: Steve Medcroft/Cyclingnews.com)