Originally Posted by
Squeezebox
Several people are making serious assumptions about Trek's marketing dept and their engineering dept. And leveling attacks based completely on opinion with zero facts to back them up. Enough already. I've checked out every one of your concerns that you have raised. Looked at all the bicycles you suggested, I rode an LHT. I have gotten as many facts that I could collect. I'm satisfied with it as a good bicycle. I don't want a bicycle that weighs 1/2 as much as it should. Where are their engineers that should be testing their stuff? I called Trek to state your concerns about the 28* wheels. Lower spoke wheels have been getting stronger over the years. Deeper rims, double walled might be part of it, shorter stronger spokes my be part as well, or so I'm told. I asked Trek for a response to your concerns. Customer service promised an appropriate person would get back to me, ASAP.
Box section rims, Vee rims, shorter spokes and all that is all very fine, but we know all that already. It's not like we've been riding single wall steel rims for all this time and now Trek has come up with new fancy technology like very basic rim desing that has been out for ages already. Furthermore, all the bontrager wheels I've been fiddling with lately have been with straight gauge no name spokes, which don't really inspire confidence as they aren't as durable as double butted or triple butted spokes which could easily be used to create a stonger wheel. Hence it'll be interesting to see what Trek has to say about the spokes in the 920 wheels. If they are non butted I can pretty much rest my case. And there are other factors as well that have been discussed in other topics over the years such as deflection, rim stiffness etc. And not to mention that even with today's high stiffness rims, the spokes are still the most important part of the equasion. Yes, there are quite functional 20 spoke wheels out there, but for heavier riders those almost require a carbon rim to really be worth anything.
Enough already!! Drop it!!
The fight is over.
Maybe try to end a thread without yourself strutting as the winner? Might help.