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A classic in Trek’s lineup, the Top Fuel is for the rider looking to shred local trails and dip their toes in racing. It’s more relaxed than the Supercaliber, and more XC-oriented than the Fuel EX. Does today's ride get a little sketchier than yesterdays? Flip the mino-link to tip the head and seat tube back and lower the BB for a more all-mountain feel. Its lightweight carbon frame will have you smiling the whole ride.

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• Light scratches on the top tube & down tube.
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• Moderate scratch on the drive side fork stanchion.
• Moderate scratches on spokes & rims.
• Moderate scuffing on handlebars.

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Trek Top Fuel 9.8 review

Super-capable ripper on the racetrack or singletrack

Laurence Crossman-Emms

Ed Thomsett

Makes the climbs fun and rips on the way down; an elegant package with a choice of colours; the six frame sizes span a massive range

A higher front end would give more descending confidence; thin tyres don’t offer much grip or protection; carbon wheels and bar bump up the price without a big impact on performance

Trek’s ambition with the Top Fuel is to combine the best qualities of both cross-country and trail bikes. This genre-bending, 115mm-travel 29er is burlier than its XC thoroughbred, the Supercaliber , but lighter and more agile than the Fuel EX . It promises lightning-fast speeds, whether gravity is on your side or not.

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Trek Top Fuel 9.8 frame

The Top Fuel’s full-carbon frame is obviously a Trek design, with that familiar twin-triangle shape and ABP (Active Braking Pivot) suspension design, where the rearmost pivot is concentric with the rear axle.

As on the rest of Trek’s full-sussers, the ‘Full Floater’ shock mounting of the old Top Fuel is gone. Instead, the Fox DPS air-can mounts directly to the frame at one end and to a magnesium rocker link at the other. Travel has been extended by 15mm for 2020.

In terms of geometry, the Top Fuel is now longer and slacker. Depending on which way you position the Mino Link flip-chip, the head angle can be set at either 67.5 or 68 degrees and the reach varied by 5mm, from 470 to 475mm on the large.

The effective seat-tube angle has been steepened to 75/75.5 degrees. With six sizes, it should be easy to achieve a perfect fit. The details of the frame have been well considered too, from its sleek, flowing lines to the fully-internal cable routing and integrated rubber protection finish.

Plus, Trek’s Knock Block steering-lock stops the fork crown fouling on the down tube.

Trek Top Fuel 9.8 kit

That 115mm-travel, air-sprung rear end is matched to a 120mm Fox 34 Performance fork. A bar-mounted RockShox TwistLoc remote lets you lock out both ends simultaneously, providing a firm pedal platform that’s easy to toggle on or off.

Combine that with a Bontrager Line Elite dropper post, and the Top Fuel switches easily into downhill mode, although a 10mm-shorter stem and slightly wider bar would help the handling.

Shimano’s SLX brakes are good, but it doesn’t take much to find the limits of the 160mm rear rotor and the lever return was a little sluggish.

I found the Bontrager XR3 tyres slightly flimsy too. They’re efficient uphill but the low-profile tread isn’t great on unsurfaced trails and I sliced a hole in the thin casing on a fairly mellow descent.

The bike’s price tag isn’t insignificant either and, while the spec is solid, I’d happily lose the carbon wheelset and bar to save some money.

Trek Top Fuel 9.8 ride impressions

You have to bite your tongue before criticising a bike like this because by its versatile nature it’s never going to be the best of the best in any scenario. With this in mind, there’s very little to fault in the way the Top Fuel rides.

With a poised feeling on the pedals even in the lower/slacker setting, the bike blasts up hills with minimal effort and I rarely found I needed to use the lockout apart from on long fireroads.

As a trail bike, the Top Fuel puts on an impressive show and never faltered, even when hammered into turns or launched off drops. The suspension gives you a solid base to push into and I was surprised after the first ride to discover that it only has 115mm of travel.

The main limiting factor to this downhill prowess is the low front end. When things get steeper, you do notice you’re on a bike that’s also built for going fast up hills. The short head tube and low stack height are clear indicators of this, and while for general trail riding I found them a little low, this does allow the bar to be fully slammed for all-out XC attacks.

Even with the 13-degree-rise stem positioned as high as possible on the steerer, I wouldn’t have minded a little more height. But then, upping the fork travel would blur the lines between the Top Fuel and the longer-travel Fuel EX.

On a bike like this, there are always going to be trade-offs, and opinion is always going to be biased by riding style, but for rapid mile-munching that doesn’t get in the way of enjoyment on the descents, the Top Fuel is hard to beat.

Trek Top Fuel 9.8 geometry (based on high setting for size L)

• Seat angle: 68.5 degrees
• Head angle: 68 degrees
• Chainstay: 43.3cm / 17.05in
• Seat tube: 47cm / 18.5in
• Top tube: 63cm / 24.8in
• Head tube: 10cm / 3.94in
• Fork offset: 4.4cm / 1.73in
• Trail: 10.3cm / 4.06in
• Bottom bracket drop: 2.9cm / 1.14in
• Wheelbase: 1,185mm / 46.65in
• Stack: 59.9cm / 23.58in
• Reach: 47.5cm / 18.7in

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Trek Fuel EX 8 29

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Colour / Matte Trek Black

Size / 15.5, 17.5, 18.5, 19.5, 21.5, 23"

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• Frame Alpha Platinum Aluminum, ABP, Boost148, Knock Block steerer stop, Full Floater, EVO link, E2 tapered head tube, Mino Link, Control Freak internal routing, down tube guard, PF92, ISCG 05, G2 Geometry, 130mm
• Wheels Bontrager Duster Elite, Tubeless Ready, Boost110 front, Boost148 rear
• Wheel Size 29"
• Tires Bontrager XR3 Expert, Tubeless Ready, Inner Strength sidewalls, aramid bead, 29x2.40"
• Crank Shimano Deore XT, 36/26
• Front Derailleur Shimano Deore, high direct mount
• Rear Derailleur Shimano Deore XT, Shadow Plus
• Shifters Shimano Deore XT M8000, 11 speed
• Brakeset Shimano Deore hydraulic disc
• Handlebar Bontrager Line, 35mm, 15mm rise, 750mm width
• Saddle Bontrager Evoke 2, chromoly rails
• Seatpost KS eThirty Integra, remote lever, 2-bolt head, 31.6mm, zero offset, internal routing
• Stem Bontrager Line, Knock Block, 35mm, 0 degree
• Headset Knock Block Integrated, cartridge bearing, sealed, 1-1/8" top, 1.5" bottom

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2017 Trek Top Fuel 9.8 SL

A 27.5″ / 29″ carbon frame full suspension crosscountry bike with ultra high-end components. Compare the full range

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May 2017 · James Bracey

Swing a leg over the Trek Top Fuel 9 and the first thing you notice is the suspension is keen to get working. It’s a seriously rapid bike on the trails.

Rewarding ride provided by the Re:aktiv suspension.

SRAM X1 groupset performed flawlessly.

Handling is marred by the miniscule bar width.

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Apr 2016 · Emily Schaldach

Trek's carbon fiber Top Fuel ruled in mountain biking’s mid-naughties heyday, and now it’s back and better than ever.

Mar 2016 · Christoph Bayer

Trek gave their Top Fuel a revamp for 2016. We've put the Trek Top Fuel 9.8 SL through its paces to see if the performance can match the looks.

Who wouldn’t have expected the updated Trek Top Fuel’s shining point to be climbing? Its predecessor was a World Cup-winning XC race bike and the Top Fuel has now replaced the company’s other race bike, the Superfly. With larger wheels, improved suspension and other updates, the Top Fuel is poised to carry on Trek’s XC race heritage.

The Trek Top Fuel 9.8 SL is a Greyhound designed to cover long distances fast and is tailor-made for über-fit marathon racers.

The reincarnated version of this World Cup-winning XC racer gets modern updates and a hella-fast ride

Turning its focus on its cross-country racing bikes, Trek made some significant changes to its XC line. Most notable is the introduction of the Isospeed coupler in to the Procaliber hardtail line. - Mtbr.com

Jun 2015 · Josh Patterson

For 2016, the Top Fuel returns to Trek’s line as a thoroughly modern cross-country racer, incorporating a lightweight carbon frame, wider axle spacing, adjustable geometry and Trek’s size-specific wheelsize strategy. . .

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