Trek stirring it up some more!
- Thread starter dhzion
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I can't wait till Eurobike to find out how unaffordable this bike is!
dope.. looks like a trek sx trail if it ever existed..
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!
Can't wait to see the geo and $ beta! Curious to hear the ride characteristics being as it's only 20mm more than the Remedy.
preach on brutha...
Did I miss a memo? Where are they getting these 170mm 36 talas and lyrik forks?
When you're trek, you can make things like this happen..
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
Let the e-speculation begin.
2010 Lyrik's are available as 170mm
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2485/3787366385_ee822b1b50_o.jpg
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
here are larger images of the bikes
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2485/3787366385_ee822b1b50_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3615/3788176462_61cb8ec4fb_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2485/3787366385_ee822b1b50_o.jpg
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
here are larger images of the bikes
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2485/3787366385_ee822b1b50_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3615/3788176462_61cb8ec4fb_o.jpg
Nice looking bike. I would like to ride one of the new ABP models someday soon.
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.
dude, just stop fvcking around get one of these:
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But not with U-turn or 2-step.
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 didn't check, but it's my understanding that's exactly what the SLX gruppo is.
142mm is the X-12 standard - http://www.syntace.com/index.cfm?pid=1&pk=1314
On the iscg I guess they didn't want to refer to it as iscg-old.
The two coil-over models appear to come with dual ring and either a bash or guide setup.
135mm goes to 142mm with just the addition of end caps, no huge deviation there.
135mm goes to 142mm with just the addition of end caps, no huge deviation there.
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.