Trek FX 2 Disc Equipped review: Unspectacular but effective

A hybrid bike can and will mean different things to different people. But sometimes it is simply the bike that fills the gaps, that doesn’t do any one thing but in fact does it all. Purists may scoff and say to compromise is to ruin the essence of life: if you are not something, you are nothing. But Trek has offered a repost: if you can’t be something, be everything.

That certainly appears to be the aim of the Trek FX 2 Disc Equipped. It’s the jack-of-all-trades, odd-jobber of a bike. It comes, as the name suggests, fully loaded with a pannier rack, lights, mudguards and even a kickstand but what elevates it to a place among the best budget hybrid bikes available today is that, as part of Trek’s fitness range, all that versatility does not come at the cost of all rideability.