The thing to remember about most of Trek's MSRPs is that there's a relatively huge margin built in for dealers. If you can find a good shop (*cough* bikeman.com *cough*), they've got the ability to come down a long ways on the sticker price.
I'm digging that Scratch 8 though - built along the same lines as my trail bike: A Bullit with a DHX Air, Totem Air, and light but durable components.
170mm and no bash huh? Lazy spec., hardly seems like the highest percentage of buyers/riders would opt for a big ring. When will long travel bikes come standard 24/36/bash or 26/38/bash? And it's crazy how different a session looks with the BB jacked up like that!
170mm and no bash huh? Lazy spec., hardly seems like the highest percentage of buyers/riders would opt for a big ring. When will long travel bikes come standard 24/36/bash or 26/38/bash? And it's crazy how different a session looks with the BB jacked up like that!
Could also be a type-o, wouldn't be the first time that happened. I did see in the latest issue of Bike that the Lyrik got bumped up to 170mm but haven't heard anything about the TALAS. So, it may not be a type-o either. I just realized I have nothing of value to add
those new trek's look nice. but I would like to echo what Bulldog was saying - I don't understand why these bikes don't come spec with a 2 ring setup + bashguard + guide. then again, judging from how high the BB looks on the pics - you might never hit your rings anyway
36 series are ineed bumping to 170mm options. no typo there, they will be available to the public as I understand it, david turner was talking about this months ago on the turner boards on mtbr, and how he is designing the new rfx around the 170mm lyric/36.
The thing to remember about most of Trek's MSRPs is that there's a relatively huge margin built in for dealers. If you can find a good shop (*cough* bikeman.com *cough*), they've got the ability to come down a long ways on the sticker price.
I'm digging that Scratch 8 though - built along the same lines as my trail bike: A Bullit with a DHX Air, Totem Air, and light but durable components.
I'm with bulldog on the crank issue. When are companies who make the cranks going to make a 2-ring specific with proper chainline offset (like the xx cranks) with a bash and have like a 26, 36 combo. That would probably be really beneficial to most of on this forum with trail bikes. If they made that then bikes would come spec'd better and I would think about running a front derailleur.
I'm with bulldog on the crank issue. When are companies who make the cranks going to make a 2-ring specific with proper chainline offset (like the xx cranks) with a bash and have like a 26, 36 combo. That would probably be really beneficial to most of on this forum with trail bikes. If they made that then bikes would come spec'd better and I would think about running a front derailleur.
142mm axle? iscg03?
I'm figuring that iscg03 is a typo (why introduce that now?) but I wouldn't put it past trek to introduce a hub standard all of their very own.
142mm axle? iscg03?
I'm figuring that iscg03 is a typo (why introduce that now?) but I wouldn't put it past trek to introduce a hub standard all of their very own.
I hear through the local grapevine that Trek will be releasing the long awaited Jack replacement; the Ticket. Also through the same grapevine Fox will be releasing a new dirt jump series fork named the 831 after the Santa Cruz County area code. Both to be released at Crankworx.
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