2024 Trek Slash 8 Gen 6 Full Suspension Mountain Bike

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The 2024 Trek Slash 8 Gen 6 Full Suspension Mountain Bike is an enduro mountain bike comes with a mullet setup as standard for the best combination of speed and handling. It's built on a high-pivot platform with 170 mm or front and rear travel that boosts traction for punchy climb stages and keeps stability a priority when you point it straight down.

Built around an Alpha Platinum Aluminium frame the Generation 6 Slash comes with with high pivot suspension and idler pulley. The high-pivot suspension gives you insane control for hairy descents, while carefully tuned anti-squat and oversized pulleys make pedalling astonishingly efficient.

The Slash 8 comes with a FOX Rhythm 36 fork with Float EVOL air spring and GRIP damper and a Fox Performance Float X shock. Plenty of gears for punchy climbs with a Shimano XT drivetrain, a Bontrager Line Dropper and a MX wheel set-up with 29 in front and 27.5 in rear Bontrager Line Comp 30 Tubeless Ready wheels with Rapid Drive hub.

This bike is perfect for

Riders who want an enduro bike that keeps pedalling efficient on the ups and slays on the downs. The added traction from a high-pivot bike is appealing, but the stability on descents is really what takes the cake.

Key Features
  • The long, 170 mm/170 mm front and rear travel is more than enough for stomping big jumps and cleaning rock gardens
  • It comes ready to roll with a mixed wheel set-up that gives you a fast-rolling 29 in front hoop and stiff, yet nimble 27.5 in rear wheel, and can be set up as a 29er for more speed
  • You can tweak Slash for how and where you ride with an adjustable leverage rate, bolt-on lower shock mount for swapping to full 29er, and adjustable-angle headset (sold separately)
  • Internal storage gives you a spot to stash tools and snacks, and it's available on all models

Mountain Bike Buying Guide

Mountain biking is an incredibly diverse sport. Mountain bikes now come in three main flavours. They are XC, Trail and Enduro.

XC – short for cross country, are quick race bikes. They will normally have 29” wheels and come with 100mm of suspension. If you are mainly going to be riding bridleways and natural trails in the South East of England, where our shops are, an XC bike will be the quickest and most efficient option.

Trail – these bikes are designed to be pedalled up and down hill and for use on bridleways and natural trails, but also at dedicated trail centres. They normally come with 130mm or 140mm of suspension travel and can have either 27.5” or 29” wheels, but 29” is quickly becoming the norm. Trail bikes are good all-rounders. They won’t be as fast as an XC bike on the flat but they can handle a lot more challenging terrain, and a few jumps. If you plan on taking your bike to trail centres in Wales, or to the Alps, then a trail bike may be your best option.

Enduro – enduro racing is a thing in and of itself but many people buy enduro bikes for ‘aggressive’ trail riding and uplift days at places like Bike Park Wales. This generally means challenging downhill trails with some big jumps. With around 160mm of suspension travel enduro bikes can take some big hits. They are designed to be efficient enough to pedal up hills but really come into their own when pointed downhill. You get enduro bikes in either 27.5” or 29” wheel sizes as well as mullet setups of 29 at the front and 27.5 at the back.


Men’s and women’s mountain bikes

Nearly all the mountain bikes we sell are now unisex. All of the big brands have gradually stopped doing dedicated men’s and women’s bikes over the last few years. Instead they are focussed on producing bikes in a bigger range of sizes. So, for instance, the Trek Marlin 5 is a unisex bike that now comes in sizes from XXS to XXL large. This means it will fit riders from 4’ 5” to 6’ 5” and everything in between.


Read our full mountain bike buyers guide


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Trek made their first bikes in 1976 in a barn in Wisconsin. Now they’re one of the biggest bike brands in the world. Trek bikes cover everything from professional-level road and mountain bike race bikes to commuters, hybrids and kids bikes. There is a strong heritage of racing at Trek and many Trek bikes have a strong race influence. They take a very scientific approach to researching bike and human performance and then make the fastest and most efficient bikes they can.

It doesn’t stop their attention and passion for cycling flows through everything they do. Since the 1990s, Trek has supported Places for Bikes. Places for Bikes is an advocacy organisation in the USA that gets more people on bikes more often! Places for Bikes ethos falls in line with the companies mission statement to:

Build only products we love. Provide incredible hospitality to our customers, and change the world by getting more people on bikes.

Frame - Alpha Platinum Aluminium, high main pivot, idler pulley, internal storage, angle-adjust headset, adjustable leverage rate, integrated frame protection, internal routing, magnesium rocker link, ISCG 05, Active Braking Pivot, UDH, 148x12 mm thru axle, 170 mm travel

Fork - Fox Rhythm 36, Float EVOL air spring, GRIP damper, tapered steerer, 44 mm offset, Boost110, 15 mm Kabolt-X axle, 170 mm travel

Shock - Fox Performance Float X, 2-position damper, 230 mm x 65 mm

Wheel front - Bontrager Line Comp 30, Tubeless Ready, 6-bolt, Boost110, 15 mm thru axle

Skewer rear - Bontrager Switch thru-axle, removable lever

Tyre - Bontrager XR5 Team Issue, Tubeless Ready, Inner Strength casing, aramid bead, 60 tpi

Tyre part - Bontrager TLR sealant, 180 ml/6 oz

Sealant - Bontrager TLR sealant, 180 ml/6 oz

Rim strip - Bontrager TLR

Shifter - Shimano XT M8100, 12-speed

Rear derailleur - Shimano XT M8100, long cage

Crank - Shimano Deore M6120, 30T ring, 55 mm chain line, 165 mm length

Bottom bracket - Shimano BB-MT501 BSA

Cassette - Shimano XT M8100, 10-51, 12-speed

Chain - Shimano SLX M7100, 12-speed

Saddle - Bontrager Arvada, hollow chromoly rails, 138 mm width

Seatpost - Bontrager Line Dropper, 100mm travel, MaxFlow, internal routing, 34.9 mm

Handlebar - Bontrager Line, alloy, 35 mm, 27.5 mm rise, 820 mm width

Grips - Bontrager XR Trail Pro, alloy lock-on

Stem - Bontrager Elite, 35 mm, 0-degree, 35 mm length

Brake - Shimano 4-piston hydraulic disc, M6100 lever, M6120 calliper

Brake rotor - Shimano RT66, 6-bolt, 203 mm

Rotor size - Max brake rotor sizes – Frame: 220 mm, Fork: see fork manufacturer

Accessories - Bag Bontrager BITS Internal Frame Storage Bag

Weight - Medium size - 16.50 kg / 36.38 lbs (with TLR sealant, no tubes)

Weight limit - This bike has a maximum total weight limit (combined weight of bicycle, rider and cargo) of 136 kg (300 lb).

Colours MARIANAS BLUE, PLASMA GREY PEARL
Sizes L, M, M/L, S, XL
Brand Trek
Model Year 2024
Barcodes 768682149133, 768682149218, 768682149256, 768682149270, 768682149317, 768682149355, 768682149416, 768682149454, 768682149478, 768682149515
SKUs / Part Numbers 5302810, 5302811, 5302812, 5302813, 5302814, 5302815, 5302816, 5302817, 5302818, 5302819

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