Originally Posted by
FastJake
A friend of a friend is selling one of these in my size for $900, which seems like a reasonable price considering MSRP was something like $8400.
However, I'm concerned this is just another throw-away bike that will be impossible to maintain. This is well into the time where Trek started all their proprietary bulls--t (I'm thinking road bikes) that's not only garbage, but incompatible with anything else.
- Can the Fox fork and rear shock be maintained?
- Rear suspension pivots? I went looking for these on an old carbon Fuel a long time ago. The mechanic at the Trek store gave me a blank stare before coming up with, "uhh, that's an old bike so we can't get parts." Top of the line bike well under 10 years old, WTF? So I sold it.
- 15mm front hub; 142x12mm rear hub, are these still around today? These thru-axle "standards" seem to change every six months.
- Other concerns?
I'm assuming this is a 26" bike.
Yes 15 x 100 and 142 x 12 thru axles are still available these days. My 2016 29er hard tail has those hubs. 2016-ish is when boost hub standard started showing up.
It's quite possible there may not be parts available for shock and fork but replacement parts of equivalent or better should be available. But if it's a 26" bike...26' suspension forks are starting to become scarce.