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Anyone on here got one?
What would you say about it, good or bad? Any regrets? What do you use it for?
I have one and really like it, no regrets. I use it for everyday riding. It climbs and descends really well.
Love mine, but as with all bikes it's a compromise, I wouldn't choose to ride 50+ miles on gravel roads but sure is fun on sub 20 mile fun routes
First Full Suspension I've had in 10 years and total departure from my normal rides, (Jones, Krampus, Bear Grease) climbs so much better than I imagined, there are know issues with the back end feeling a little flexy, something you are occasionally aware of but certainly doesn't hold you back or knock you off line
It's a monster truck, if you've got the legs it will go over pretty much anything
I rode one for a day in the Peak. As above, the thing's a monster truck, it basically just rolls over anything and everything as long as you can keep turning the pedals. The downside to that is that between the suspension travel and the bloody great plus-sized tyres, there's pretty much no feedback whatsoever, you're sort of floating on a cloud of Trek-made fairy dust, which is slightly disconcerting.
Ideally you also want to stick wider bars than stock on it and some better brakes because to goes ridiculously fast downhill. On the basis of that, I wouldn't really want to own one. It was a giggle for a day in the way that slightly mad bikes / cars / motorbikes / TVs etc often are, but the combination of lack of feedback and super powers on rough terrain didn't really do it for me. It also had the feeling that if things were going to go wrong, they would go wrong very suddenly and at very high speed.
I guess if you rode it as a steady trundly thing that wouldn't be a factor, but I'm not sure that would make much sense. For perspective, when I got back on my Sonder Transmitter, it felt like a tiny BMX in comparison, the Trek is huge. Good fun but not a bike I'd personally want to own. Brilliant if you just want to ride over everything in your path without even noticing it's there though.
Ians got one.
Hes fast on it both up and down. It appears to be unstoppable.
The bike is great in rocky areas rides over anything and the traction when climbing is much better than bikes with smaller size tyres also the XR4 tyres work great in mud brakes are sound good as anything bike is lumpy at 34LBS with tubes but its for fun riding not racing and with a 50T cassette you can get it up the same as any bike maybe slightly slower.
Yeah, like I said, it was amazing, if isolating, in the Peak. I rode up the DCC rubble trough that is the Rushup Edge sunken track with barely any thought, but quite a lot of effort just turning the pedals over. I can clean the same climb on the Transmitter, but it takes some line choice and thought whereas the Trek just obliterated everything in its path and removed any excuse to stop pedalling in the process.
I think it probably boils down to how your personal balance of capability and visceral experience of riding plays out. Monster truck is a pretty good two-word summary.
Very true a lot of people are looking for one bike to do all things which I don't think is out there and the FS stache is not that bike but I am lucky I have a choice the other week I was down in Exmoor cleaned a track up to Dunkery Beacon in the mud which I cant do on a Trek EX8 in the dry horses for courses I think the bike looks cool though.