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4.3/5
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# of Reviews
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10
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$ 5500.00
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Description:
- Front Suspension
- Bontrager Race X Lite Disc
- Shimano Deore XT
- Bontrager Race Lite
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Submitted by
moshe
a Weekend Warrior
from Israel
Date Reviewed: May 25, 2008 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$5000.00 | | Purchased At: | Latroon Bikes | | Strengths: | the most comfortable! lightest! and fastest! bike i ever had | | Weaknesses: | maybe the fact that the name is still related to older models | | Similar Products Used: | Cannondale Rush 3000 | | Bike Setup: | Trek Fuel EX 9.0 full carbon and full XT Tubeless | | Bottom Line: | Best Bikes for 2008 | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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Dan
a Cross Country Rider
from California
Date Reviewed: May 12, 2008 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$1500.00 | | Strengths: | It's light and looks good. | | Weaknesses: | Flexy rear end
Weak paintjob. Picks up scratches so easily
Frame cracked from one foot drop. | | Similar Products Used: | Titus, Giant XTC | | Bike Setup: | Mainly XTR, DT Swiss, Sram | | Bottom Line: | This bike is only for smooth terrain. Don't buy if you intend to do anything other than light cross country. I cracked the frame at the usual spot on the seat tube. I've heard of this numerous times with these frames. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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Don Pedro
a Racer
from Crested Butte, CO
Date Reviewed: August 30, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Lots of climbing, fast downhill | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$3500.00 | | Purchased At: | Employee Purchase | | Strengths: | Weight, Looks, performance
It's a trek. They have been doing carbon for a long time and have it figured out. | | Weaknesses: | ????? | | Similar Products Used: | Specialized, Rocky Mountain, Moots. | | Bike Setup: | XTR everything. | | Bottom Line: | This bike rocks. It climbs every bit as good as my other bike and has 2X the travel. Sure it bobs a bit, but every suspension bike does. If you want less bob you can choose what ever level of pro pedal you want. I use 2 on smoother road climbs. Everywhere else I use full plush.
I can climb EVERY LUNG BUSTING GRANNY GRANNY CLIMB that I could EVER climb on a hard tail with this bike, and I have NO arm fatigue at the bottom of big downhills. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
JD Baldwin
a Cross Country Rider
from Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Date Reviewed: August 14, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Potowatomi, Pinckney, MI | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$4200.00 | | Purchased At: | Breakaway Bicycles, Kalamazoo | | Strengths: | Almost unbelievably light, yet rugged as anything out there.
The shifting is the smoothest I've ever seen on ANY bike, ever.
Some harder-core guys will tease you over the suspension lockout lever, but I have found it very useful for technical climbing and the flats.
The suspension, even when not locked out, is pretty stable and I haven't yet detected "pedal bob" to any significant degree. | | Weaknesses: | I would probably like to have another inch or so of travel on the rear. I disagree with those who have written that they'd like more up front, but then I like it bumpy. I'm a 240-lb. rider and I keep my suspension fairly stiff. | | Similar Products Used: | Had a Trek Y-11 until last year. | | Bike Setup: | Stock, have added only a Polar 720i cyclocomputer | | Bottom Line: | Great bike for a big guy who doesn't mind a little bumpiness in the ride. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Scott Hall
a Cross Country Rider
from Cleveland, TN
Date Reviewed: July 26, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Tansi | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$4000.00 | | Purchased At: | Scott's Bike Shope | | Strengths: | Carbon | | Weaknesses: | Weak rear end design, I am VERY disappointed! Terrible design, with my weight at 270lbs this rear looses climbing ability due to sideways movement. | | Similar Products Used: | Did not try others, bad mistake... Took the word that it was a good FS bike. | | Bike Setup: | Stock | | Bottom Line: | Big disapointment! Try others before you buy. I have ridden Trek for years 9800, 9900 hardtails. I am going back to a hardtail from Specialized (Marathon Carbon). My next full suspension will be a specialized with the brain and not such of a gap in the suspension arm. This is the problem! Look at the 2007 arm take the back tire of a used 2007 Trek and look at the play in the rear wheel. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
mason smith
a Cross Country Rider
from medford, or
Date Reviewed: January 30, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Santa Barbara back country | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$2700.00 | | Purchased At: | a great friend... | | Strengths: | Sram shifting, very responsive stearing on the decents, and due to the longer top tube easier to keep front end on the ground with steep ascents. Very nice to be able to lock out suspension at the handle bar while on the fly. The bike feels comfortable with speed and makes you a more confident rider. Awesome braking power and they don't squeek like shimano products when heated up. | | Weaknesses: | Looks,...I would recommend a 2.3-2.4 on the front to help roll over the larger obsticles and smooth out the ride. I came from a 5 inch travel bike to this four inch travel and a 2.4 front tire would make this ride just as smooth. A little heavy for that much carbon and that much money... | | Similar Products Used: | Santa Cruz Blur-XTR, Specialized Stumpjumper 120 Pro-XTR | | Bike Setup: | All cool stuff, Avid Jucy 7 carbon, Bontrager everything (carbon), SRAM front X.9, rear X.0, Bontrager race lite X wheelset and stock otherwise. | | Bottom Line: | First, coming from Shimano all my mountain bike riding life (25 years plus) it is refreshing to use the SRAM. Very clean shifting and you KNOW when you have shifted, and they look cool. Still waiting for a front deraileur X.0...Second, perhaps the best climbing bike I have ever ridden especially with the lock out, and aggresive geometery. Third, I would recommend a 2.4 or greater front tire for a smoother ride. Once the bike is set up correctly for you, a minimum of seven rides, you will totally love this bike and with TREK you know you're buying quality. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Christopher Harris
a Racer
from Atlanta, GA
Date Reviewed: January 7, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Tanasi Trail System | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$6000.00 | | Purchased At: | Atlanta Cycling | | Strengths: | Weight, Fox Talas, new XTR setup, extraordinary suspension efficiency, comfort from carbon frame. | | Weaknesses: | None at all. | | Similar Products Used: | Fuel EX9, Titus Racer-x, Intense Spider, Cannondale Scalpel | | Bike Setup: | Full XTR, Fox Talas and RP23, and Bontrager Race X-lite | | Bottom Line: | This is the most amazing bike I've ever set my rear upon. It climbs like a mountain goat, and descends like a speed demon. I have a friend who rides a Titus Racer-x I was once jealous of, but not any longer!!!!!! The new XTR brakes make my old Hayes HFX-9's seem outdated. All the new XTR stuff kills the competition-look out SRAM, I've turned to the dark side. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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JOHN SHIELDS
a Racer
from JACKSONVILLE, FL, USA
Date Reviewed: December 26, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | reddick, fl | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$3500.00 | | Purchased At: | used | | Strengths: | FAST, LIGHT, FULLY ADJUSTABLE SUSPENSION | | Weaknesses: | PRICE, CARBON FRAME APPEARANCE | | Similar Products Used: | giant vt1, trance, GF Cake | | Bike Setup: | XC | | Bottom Line: | Rode several times at 2 different trails and cannot stop talking about how awesome this bike is. So light, VERY FAST, awesome suspension which leads to great cornering. I rode it plush and with Propedal and Lockout set. The blowoff works great, but the propedal is a little less accurate getting it to work when I wanted it to without sacrificing the rigidity over the flat sections. I am still playing with settings on the shock, so this may get better. Riding it plush is just to nice! I love this bike. It has single handedly re-energized my training routine.
I was winning races before, but now I am really going to fly - picked up 2 minutes on my training course over my old 30 pounder with tubes in the tires and heavy pedals! Can't wait to lighten it up even more. GREAT BIKE!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
don smith
a Cross Country Rider
from winston-salem, nc USA
Date Reviewed: July 28, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | too many to choose | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$5000.00 | | Purchased At: | paceline bicycles | | Strengths: | it is..... fast smooth quiet beautiful badass! i don't know that a better fs/xc bike exists. | | Weaknesses: | haven't found any yet | | Similar Products Used: | cannondale rush fisher cake | | Bike Setup: | stock except.... changed stem and seatpost out for thomson, sawed 1cm off each end of bar and replaced front tire with a less aggresive tread | | Bottom Line: | best bike i ever sat my --- on! all the components are perfectly matched to everything else on the bike. if you haven't figured it out yet,....i love it! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
george Yung
a Weekend Warrior
from Hong Kong
Date Reviewed: February 24, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$6000.00 | | Purchased At: | hong kong | | Strengths: | Very good looking bike.
Very lite.
Good finishing to the frame. | | Weaknesses: | The standard carbon bar is a bit too sort.
Bit pricey for a bike.
Saddle do not fit the price bracket
| | Similar Products Used: | Specialised carbon Epic | | Bike Setup: | small frame 15:5" | | Bottom Line: | I have just taken delivery of this very good looking bike.
I have made some slight changes to the standard items: wheels, X race dics to Mavic crossMax SL.Rear cassettes to XTR,standard sram chain to 991 chain,Crain to chris King head set and saddle to a Bel air.
I will give an update once I have a good few miles under the tyres. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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