Trek Road and Pavement 2015: Spec, Prices, and Details for What’s New
Do these excite you beardos?
Personally, I’d go a Trek 520 with discs… ntbd
Regarding this:
Fork Alloy Adventure, disc
Is that like, shite, or okay?
I’d take that yellow chelsea, dip bottom half of frame in fluro orange paint, get me a green bell super helmet and raz it til its baskets fell off.
Tis amazing how many tiny variations of touring bikes there are now. Not sure of the clearance on the 520, but if it can fit 42s no fenders, I’d go that way too, H.
I dont get fat (really fat) tyred dropbarred tourers. Are you going to slay singletrack on them? No, cos you have a bunch of junk strapped to your bike/racks and it handles like a dog. Are you going to ride 80km sealed road to find 10km of gravel to take a bunch of pics on, with your 2.3" tires gripping so hard as to alter the spin of the planet? yes.
you want to tour? get a touring bike. you want to tour offroad, bikepack with your mtb. you think riding a touring bike on rough roads is a new idea that the raphamashhashtag crew started and requires a new type of bike? you’re an idiot.
lol.
Ride that wave Trek, fark only like a year after Giant released their Revolt(ing)…
#trending cnuts. All should’ve come with 700x43c Gumwall sidewalls too hey.
So that’s a “no” from you guys?
fkn shite
Thought so.
I always been nervous about rigid aluminium forks in a mtb or touring context… should I be?
fukn aye you should*
*actually they’ll probably be fine (ominous horror movie fanfare noise… for a while)
While aluminium doesn’t have a fatigue limit (which might be something to consider when buying a well thrashed one of these second hand) I think the reason for it is that they can make use of larger forgings/casting in aluminium without signification weight penalties, e.g. the LHS dropout can basically extend up teh fork leg, have an integrated disk tab, and just be butt welded to the leg, whereas on steel you’d need multiple pieces or fancy forgings (forgings are more expensive in steel than Al) or more welding (costs more) to get the same result.
I can’t tell if this is the case on the 920 from posted pics but i’m seeing a lot of hybrid/commuter/whatever they are being marketed as this season BSO’s i see on my commute.
P.S. aluminium alloys do have a smaller elongation at failure (esp for high strength) than steel (which is usually not heat treated much for forks giving excellent elongation at failure) TL;DR steel forks bend moar before they brake
Thanks eng.
Wait a minute, i thought aluminium did have a fatigue limit… Wasnt that the whole point of the moto ‘steel is real’?
nah fatigue limit is a stress below which fatigue cracks will not propagate.
Aluminium doesn’t have on so fatigue cracks will propagate every time stress is applied (less propagation with less stress but still propagates).
steel has one so there can be a crack there but it only grows when the applied stress exceeds the limit
et viola:
P.S. fukin 'muricans join the 20th century and use SI units already
keep the stress in steel below 30ksi (ksi = 1000psi) get infinite cycles to failure
lower stress in Al gives more cycles but still failure in the end
You’re all missing the point. It’s still a gosh darn fucking Trek.
As Lorday said, I don’t like Trek, I wouldn’t ride one, I dont know why, I would ride a Specialized, maybe its marketing, its an interesting bike after all and I do get the fat tires drop bar thing because its fun, its actually heaps of it.
ftfy
It’s less marketing more one has a product I like
I’d go a Trek before a Specialized
Probs the same here. Spesh kinda stinks, not that trek is squeaky (see:lance/lemond)
Big tyres are great touring on gravel roads and 4wd tracks with a load, but at a certain point I feel wide flat bars (and hyrdros) do more for stability and control than a huge tyre.
I think that larger than a 45mm tyre it makes sense to go flat bar unless you are doing huge days and need all the multiple hand positions.
but y’know, the salsa fargo is a very popular bike for a reason, marketing aside.
So, I don’t know.
but I wouldn’t buy the trek.
Why all the Trek hate, and seamingly willing acceptance of Specialized’s continous arse-hole behaviour?
I reckon Trek look very very nice, especially the classics edition Domane… yeah
Cause! Its Trek! As I said I cant even explain why. My first MTB was a Wheeler, do they still exist btw? Had the same love for Raleigh and now I find that the Tamland is an awesome bike so maybe my opinion will change tomorrow.
I dont hate trek, and would ride trek before specialised, but giant way before both.
Fargo is similar and yes, popular and I think cool, too… but comparing the two, fargo seems a taller HT, less road bike looking, and… it happened years and years ago. It created its own genre, really, so it deserves to be bought. I dont think this trek is going to touch it.
Have you seen their colourways and ‘new’ logo for 2015? Dear god no…