Originally Posted by
Artmo
We also have a Trek T2000, 2006 model I think, for which we also paid $1500 several years ago. It's kept in England where we use it for short rides and the occasional tour, such as a trip to Paris in 2014 along the Avenue Verte.
I have not spent too much time trying to reduce its weight, although I have put 48-36-24 chainrings on it to help our old legs and am toying with the idea of fitting a Gates timing belt. However, I'm curious as to how you fitted a rear disc. Did your frame already have the necessary fittings? We have a drum drag brake, which weighs a ton and since I now have Spinergy wheels, I could fit a disc if the frame allowed. Yes, we also had a Bontrager hub fail and I don't have too much faith in the other one.
Take a look at post
#413 here:
http://www.bikeforums.net/tandem-cyc...-weigh-17.html
Our 2007 T2000 is disc-brake ready in the rear. Trek did other things to make it fairly light in 2007/08: SRAM Carbon cranksets and carbon front fork - I weighed the cranks and the crank arms were about the same weight as my X0 MTB cranks, very light. The stock rear saddle and suspension post were boat anchors. Also, the rear drop bars with adjustable stem weighed a lot. I could do some other nutty stuff to shave another pound but at this point I'm content with the bike.