New Bike Info From Trek, Gary Fisher and Bianchi

VeloNews reports that Trek is producing road bikes using the Gary Fisher name.  The Kelly Benefit Strategies road team debuted the new Cronus carbon models at the Philadelphia International Cycling Championship earlier this month. The 900 gram frame uses a large head tube coupled with the most massive down tube ever manufactured by Trek or Fisher to increase front-end stiffness by 27 percent over Fisher’s previous internal benchmark for frame rigidity.

In other Trek news, BikeRadar has some insight into the new aero frame that Alberto Contador rode in the opening individual time trial of this year’s Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. As Felt, Look and Giant have done, the new Trek features an external steerer tube (or possibly some sort of ‘structural’ extension) that combines with the head tube to effectively create an aero section deeper than 3:1. Also, the brakes appear to be wholly internal. In the front, just the pads peek out beneath the fork crown, and the rear brake is tucked within the chain stays.

BikeRadar also had an article about Bianchi’s new C2C Infinito, which replaces the C2C 928 Carbon. At 1,080 grams, it is 200 grams lighter than the 928 Carbon, yet it is more rigid, due to its use of the same carbon found in Bianchi’s 2009 top model, the 928 Carbon Superleggera. The slightly curved fork comes in at 365 grams. The bike was ridden by Barloworld’s Robert Hunter to second place finishes in stages 7 and 13 at this year’s Giro d’Italia.

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