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Just had a phonecall from Evan's in Reading, the new bike is in the building..............
150minutes till I get to try it out 🙁
Ok... to make you happy... What bike is it?
Trek top fuel 8
Decided the decents round here sucked so I may as well make myself suffer on the climbs instead.
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nice looking bike
Indeed, it was that or an Anthem X4, and the Anthems are a bit common and long in the tooth now.
and the Anthems are a bit common
And TREK is such a niche brand that is hardly ever seen right.... 😕
Only ever seen one other top fuel (njee20's), and despite its reputation as Mondeo Mans trail center, the Treks are out numbered by niche stuff like mythic and transitions at Swinley!
It didn't fit 🙁
Not sure how, the website said it was longer than a giant anthem-X 18", which I know fits, and was supposed to be longer than the 18" inbred 456 I ride normaly, but for whatever reason in real life it was tiny!
oh no, gutted. What next?
Come to your senses and get a 20" AnthemX and whack a shorter stem on it. I did. The Treks are nice enough but the spec, for the money, is god awful. That and the AnthemX consistently reviews better than any other 100mm fast XC bike.
Yea, but the trek was down to £1199, making it anthem-x4 money and the trek easily had the better spec.