Originally Posted by lisitsa

Don't be so sure about the brakes being bad. Adjusting v-brakes requires a bit of experience and you probably don't have much of it yet so you assume they are bad. I have the 7.2fx and the brakes are good. I work at a volunteer bike shop and have dealt with a lot of v-brake adjustments. The 7.2fx brakes are solid.

For example did you know that you can adjust the spring tension of each arm individually so as to centre the brakes. Did you know that if your wheel is not centred in the middle of the frame, you are gonna have issues with v-brakes because the arms will need different spring tensions to stay in place.

The interesting thing with my 7.2 which is a 25" size, the geometry is almost traditional. It seems that as the sizes get higher, Trek changes the geometry. I don't know why they do this.