"To warm the cockles of bearded touring types ..."

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reohn2 wrote:
531colin wrote:Thats just silly......any fule know.....us beardy touring types don't have cockles..... :mrgreen:


Some of us don't even have muscles :(

Some of us don't have beards!
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Vorpal wrote: Some of us don't have beards!


There is that too....
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I know beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but that Trek 920 is one of the ugliest bikes I've seen for a while!
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bikes4two wrote:I know beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but that Trek 920 is one of the ugliest bikes I've seen for a while!


I'm not overly offended by it's looks TBH
But I'm completely amazed that a company such as Trek can get it so wrong for it's intended purpose.It actually couldn't get much worse,overgeared,Alu steep angled frameset,Hydro brakes,through axle front wheel.
Trek couldn't have got it more wrong TBH :?

Compare it to similar Salsa Fargo or some of the Surly's and it's bonkers!
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28 front and 36 rear is not overgeared even for my rather weedy legs.
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beardy wrote:28 front and 36 rear is not overgeared even for my rather weedy legs.


It is loaded and off road at the end of a long day with a 15% gravelly climb in front of you.Bear in mind the tyres on that bike are 29er(700c)x2inch(50mm) 23inches.
My Genesis Longitude has a 22x36,17.5inches bottom gear and off road sometimes I need it,unloaded.
I'm not the strongest rider in the world(Lancashire FTM)but I not the weakest either,such low MTB gearing would not go a miss on such a bike IMHO.

TBH The Genesis Longitude is perfect as such a machine,long WB,slack angles,2.4inch tyres,3x10 even gear spread.All it would need is the handlebars changing to drops,the thought has crossed my mind before now.
I've also thought 'I wonder what these huge 2.4inch supple Conti X King tyres would go like on tarmac with all those knobblie bits shaved off!' :D Hmm, maybe when they've worn down a bit........ :wink:
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Brucey wrote:in a word, I think it looks.... ghastly.

By the time you have mudguards fitted you will most likely have toe overlap, the racks are all to cock, the saddle is from a cheap road bike, the seat angle seems rather steep, the brakes are (unfixable in the wild) hydraulics (why....????) and the paint job just makes my stomach churn.

I can't see many bearded touring types wanting to fit their Brooks to it and pedal off into the sunset, I really can't...

It has already been discussed here BTW

http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=94875

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nice colour I think, nearly as good as burnt orange.
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Brucey wrote:in a word, I think it looks.... ghastly.

By the time you have mudguards fitted you will most likely have toe overlap, the racks are all to cock, the saddle is from a cheap road bike, the seat angle seems rather steep, the brakes are (unfixable in the wild) hydraulics (why....????) and the paint job just makes my stomach churn.

I can't see many bearded touring types wanting to fit their Brooks to it and pedal off into the sunset, I really can't...

It has already been discussed here BTW

http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=94875

cheers


You're wrong Brucey. Think of a description that's worse than ghastly - that's how it looks :roll:
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reohn2 wrote:But I'm completely amazed that a company such as Trek can get it so wrong for it's intended purpose.It actually couldn't get much worse,overgeared,Alu steep angled frameset,Hydro brakes,through axle front wheel.
Trek couldn't have got it more wrong TBH

It’s intended purpose is to sell, reohn2. That’s all.

I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole (don’t mind the colour, though), but I have specific ideas about what a bicycle should be.
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Apparently its just the gears ..... not the bike

,.....and shifting via bar-ends that will warm the cockles of bearded touring types
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Samuel D wrote:It’s intended purpose is to sell, reohn2. That’s all.

To the unsuspecting (as the Yanks call them) greenhorns :?

I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole (don’t mind the colour, though), but I have specific ideas about what a bicycle should be.

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Cunobelin wrote:Apparently its just the gears ..... not the bike

,.....and shifting via bar-ends that will warm the cockles of bearded touring types

(FIFY)
Something else that doesn't warm my cockles.
Barends (more commonly known as knee spikes),off road nooooooooooo.........
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Say does that thing have disk brakes and QR skewers? :lol: :lol:
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Vorpal wrote:Say does that thing have disk brakes and QR skewers? :lol: :lol:


If it has,It gets worse! :shock:
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Re: "To warm the cockles of bearded touring types ..."

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Stand by my view on the other thread (linked by Brucey).

Biggest thing to me is it's aluminiumness.

Biggest reason for that is the no goodness for powder-coating.

What's been fitted on it from the shop means nowt to me though; would never buy it more built than as a frame'n forks. But wouldn't anyway.

Heltor Chasca wrote:But I love that bike


You are shocking me now, HC. :shock: You've just got yourself perhaps the coolest (IMO) new bike (that I am currently covetting, badly, so badly I've been looking at frame prices and will be talking to someone today regarding them...), and you love that bike! Oh my.
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