Vali Höll will take part in Saturday’s UCI World Championship women’s downhill race, which features top riders – and it’s a specially painted Trek Session that will feature an Austrian.
Hall arrived in Les Gets, France on fire after winning the World Championships in Canada last week at Mont Sainte Anne. Can the 20-year-old 2019 World Junior Champion make it to the top of the elite podium?
Höll got a smart Trek Session from the world of Les Gets with a bunch of new or unreleased SRAM/RockShox parts.
This includes the BlackBox Boxxer fork, which we assume features the new Charger 3 damper and DebonAir+ air spring introduced earlier this year on the 2023 RockShox Pike, Lyrik and ZEB forks. From what we’ve seen here, we think Höll is also using a beefier 38mm top tube like the one found on the RockShox Zeb single crown fork.
The RockShox Super Deluxe Coil Ultimate shock is also new, while the BlackBox kit covers brake calipers with a yet-to-be-released SRAM code (we assume).
As for the highest-pivoting Trek Session bike, it differs from the production model with an updated tensioner and chainstay location for Höll.
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Post time: Nov-26-2022