Trek Bicycle - March 21, 2026

From steel in '76 to OCLV Carbon today

The decade that changed everything ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌...

The march to modern

Trek's material evolution from 1976 to today

In its first decade, Trek built exclusively brazed steel bikes. Then, there was a skunkworks stretch of rapid, deliberate change — steel to bonded aluminum, aluminum to carbon tubes, and eventually carbon lugs. Each step built on the last.

It was an era of extraordinary vision and momentum — an evolution of material that helped change cycling forever.

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50 bikes that built Trek

Historic frames, wild innovations, and designs that rewrote an era and pushed cycling forward.

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