Any mountain biker knows that durability is the buzzword for getting a good bike. There’s certainly no sense in spending hundreds or thousands of pounds on a bike that can’t handle tough trails. For anyone other than a very beginner, a mountain bike which appears to be struggling to handle the strain early on in its life is unlikely to be a good choice. For durability, riders should check out Trek mountain bikes.
Trek mountain bikes made full suspension, hard tails, road bikes and women specific (WSD) bikes.Most of their frames are available in a choice of aluminium or carbon fibre frames.As experienced bikers will know, many prefer carbon fibre frames because they are lightweight.Unfortunately, with lightweight often comes the disadvantage of a bike being less durable: not so with Trek mountain bikes.
The reason Trek mountain bikes are so durable is because of the technique used in the production of their carbon fibre bikes. Optimum Compaction Low Void, or OCLV, is a process of production which was invented by Trek mountain bikes. Trek mountain bikes can boast of being the only manufacturer to use this method.
The technique involves applying heat and pressure to compress multidirectional layers of carbon fibre densely. The process may sound complex but it is in reality just a variation on the typical process of heat treating carbon fibre and resin. Trek mountain bikes say that this technique achieves ‘an optimum ratio of fibre to resin’ giving plenty of strength but minimising weight. That means that the technique gives the best durability to weight ratio there is.
The low void part of the name refers to the elimination of voids. Voids being the small or even microscopic gaps which can be found between layers of carbon fibre. There are huge benefits to eliminating these gaps because they are normally the source of fatigue failures.
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