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As another summer winds down, here are a few products that made their way into heavy rotation in my cycling life over the past three months.Trek Fuel EX 9.9 I’ve been riding this bike all over Colorado since we had itin for testing for our spring bike Replica Breitling watches special and have only grown more impressed.Granted, bike fit can be a very personal thing, but there’s something about thegeometry of this fiveinchtravel trail bike that truly lets me settle into theframe. This is now my goto bike for almost any nonrace ride, from quickmorning singletrack loops to allday epics.I’m not the world’s most technical trail rider. As such, Iprefer more neutral handling, which Trek seems to have dialed, here and on itsroad bikes (I’m also a big fan of the Madone).
The 69 degree head tube andmidlength wheel base provide a Replica IWC watches centered position for aggressive singletrackcarving while allowing me to pitch forward for steep climbs and settle back abit for drops and descents.As we noted in our review of this bike earlier this year,the suspension design also works great. I’ve taken the EX on several rideswith 5,000plus feet of climbing, routes where before I would always reach fora shortertravel XC bike. In nontechnical terms, the EX is so much fun toride,
