Trek Fuel EX 5 Review
While this Trek Fuel EX 5 may look like a roller skate on wheels, complete with disco-tastic 'anthracite' metallic grey finish and chunky platform shoes reminiscent of the Spice Girls’ heyday, it does cover a particular niche between ‘trail’ and ‘cross-country’, and it does it very well on a respectable budget.
Although it shares the same namesake as the hard-hitting and highly-rated Trek Fuel EX trail bike, the Fuel EX Plus is a slightly different beast. Plus-sized wheels and shorter travel suspension aside, this particular Fuel features Trek’s 'high geometry', which means a more upright riding position to favour the aspiring amateur mountain bikers among us.
Though I did not feel like it was as capable as it’s enduro-smashing older brother on the technical descents, the Fuel EX Plus was certainly more inclined to, er, incline, and it made light work of long miles.
