Through that summer, the two bounced ideas off each other.
TREK STACHE 7 29 PRO
Travis is a former pro racer, key product tester, mountain bike hall-of-fame inductee and now helps run Trek’s testing program. Regardless, Ted had a few valuable lessons and moved the project forward. The V1 was exciting, but not perfect - and nobody at Trek was really quite sure what to do with that kind of bike. Though you’ll find that at most bike companies. Trek understands the importance of having engineers and designers who are also skilled riders. Internal test riding started with mostly engineers (led by Ted) and product people. Trek Photo (note the 10-speed cassette, chainguide, and normal tires) Jarod completed the V1 prototype in the spring of 2012. According to Ted, he’s one of the best alloy welders around. Jarod Brown started at Trek on the manufacturing floor in the mid 90’s welding Y-Bike rear triangles and is now Trek’s go-to guy for aluminum fabrication. Trek (like all manufacturers) has an in-house proto shop dedicated to fabricating new stuff. Working a little on paper and natively in 3D CAD (Solidworks, if you care), Ted created created something with 420mm chainstays and a steep seat tube which he thought “worked." He sent those initial plans over to Jarod Brown for internal prototype. Short chainstays hadn’t yet become the fashion, and many 29ers still suffered from a tractor-y, disconnected feel and XC tunnel vision. Ted’s initial goal for project weird was to craft an ultra-short chainstay 29er trail bike. (If you want to jump right to the ride report, go ahead, but this is wicked interesting) Ted Alsop, Trek’s lead engineer on the Stache, was kind enough to lay out the bike's development cycle for TGR. The Stache began as Trek’s ‘Project Weird’ R&D test-bed in early 2012 and evolved, via confluence of design, process, fortuitous events and serendipity, into the category-killing winner it is today.
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