Love this bike to death save for Trek's failure to provide for decent rear fender mounting points at the seat and chain stay... IIRC they offered a mounting kit for these bikes.

Fender is zip tied at the chain stay and reinstalled the rack / fender bolt when I swapped in the 11-34 and if I need a lower gear than this I will just have to get off and walk. this has proven to be a very good way to make sure the fender stays put and really improves on their stability.

Probably won't see any mountains with this bike but should handle anything and everything our prairies have to offer and as I like to take this bike off road that 20 gear inch low should come in handy.