Any mountain biker knows that durability is the buzzword for getting a good bike. Of course, it makes no sense paying hundreds or thousands of pounds for 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.Riders looking for durability need to look at Trek mountain bikes.

Full suspension bikes, hardtails, road bikes and women’s bikes are all offered as part of trek mountain bikes’ range. Consumers have a choice of carbon fibre or aluminium models. Carbon fibre frames are often the preference of experienced riders because of their lightweight. Sadly, with many mountain bikes low weight equals low durability: not so for 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. A process of production known as Optimum Compaction Low Void was invented and patented by Trek mountain bikes.Trek mountain bikes are the only manufacturer to use exactly this process.

The technique means heat and pressure are applied to multidirectional layers of carbon fibre to densely compress them. Whilst this may seem complex it is only a variation on typical methods of heat treating carbon fibre and resin.This technique achieves what Trek mountain bikes call ‘an optimum ratio of fibre to resin’ which maximises strength whilst minimising weight. That is to say that the technique gives the best durability to weight ratio there is.

This method of production eliminates nearly all voids, hence the ‘low void’ part of the name. Voids are of course the tiny, even microscopic gaps between layers of carbon fibre. There are huge benefits to eliminating these gaps because they are normally the source of fatigue failures.