2024 Trek Fuel EXe 9.7 Credit: Adam Hughes My bike of the year is an odd choice, given how badly it scored in our latest review. The Trek Fuel EXe 9.7 managed to get just 6/10 in the lightweight e-bike of the year test , largely because it’s underpowered compared with the competition… and overpriced too.
And yet when I cast my mind back over the past 12 months of riding, it’s the Fuel EXe I keep coming back to, it sits right up there as the most enjoyable bike I pedalled in 2024. For me that’s the single most important element of mountain biking, not how fast, far, high or consistently you ride… but how you feel when you do. Sorry, but in spite of the motor flaws I love the Trek Fuel EXe for its pure pace and peppy ride feel OK, the best things about the Fuel EXe first. Trek has fitted the Fox Float X to the 8.9 bike and that’s unleashed it as one of the quickest bikes I’ve ridden for raw speed. That’s testament to the killer suspension. There’s only 140mm travel to play with so this is very much a trail bike, but that’s exactly what I want for Surrey Hills riding.
This is no noodle though, the full carbon frame is as stiff and solid as an enduro bike, proving once again that Trek really knows its business when it comes to building frames. I’ve piled into some big old berms at high […]
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