Originally Posted by
mstateglfr
that was a bad attempt at me joking about how trek is large enough to update 2 drop bar models in the same year that are totally different from one another.
I just think its funny and would also think it drives potential business away since the gravel market is continually changing to where old design apparently isn't appealing to many in the crowd.
The current frame launched 2019 MY, so 2021 would only be 3 MYs. Let trek recover some costs! :-)
To your argument-
Isnt appealing to whom? Trek and LBS is selling the hell out of them (Treks #1 seller?). What’s wrong with the current bike besides one bit that only folks on the internet care about? Trek is a mass market company, 99.995% of their potential customers are going to be delighted with BB90 and 45mm max tires; Trek is happy to let Rodeo take the other 5 customers.
BTW as bad as BB90 is, T47 isn’t going to make the problem go away. You’ve still got a bearing pressed into a shell. You’ve still got a metal part interfacing with a difficult to build carbon layup. isn’t Specialized OSBB basically the same thing? My OSBB failed in a year (500mi) of dry road and my bb90 Checkpoint is still smooth after 2500 miles of everything.