Tech Report: Trek and Travis Brown take belt drive up a notch
That wasn’t just any old Trek XO cyclocross bike Travis Brown was riding in last weekend’s Boulder and Redline Cup races — it was a prototype belt-driven bike.
The Trek product tester first raced the anodized green machine, dubbed the XOB, at CrossVegas, held in conjunction with the Interbike trade show in Las Vegas.
The prototype uses the XO’s front triangle, but replaces its chainstays with burlier versions from the T900 tandem and dropouts from the new ABP mountain bike …




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