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This wear occurred on a relatively new bike? Something was wrong. I have gone ten years on a set of shifter cables before. My EXe dropper post cable came from the dealer or Trek completely butchered. There was no barrel on the cable and the ferrule on the housing was missing.

Well either the barrel on the cable is not longer in the slot in the lever, or the housing is pinched inside the frame, or the screw anchoring the cable at the rear mech is loose. I would start at the rear and work forward.

Not holding my breath- anyone one who posts and actual pic of one on their personal bike gets more than a few likes from me.

I took off the Line Comps on my 9.7 and replaced them with a set of I9 305's. Lot of money for not a bunch of performance improvement. They look cool and the Hydra sings but the stocks wheels are pretty good in my opinion.

Nice to see a bike with some affordable pricing and good capability. Love the alloy frame as well.

I had the guy at the Trek dealer go up to 17nm and document it on Trek's service system. Since I went to the 40mm (from 39.8mm) on the Fox and cranked the bolt up its been fine.

Agree the TQ is nearly silent. It maybe me but at the 500 mile mark it seems even more quiet than when I got it. I was looking at a KSL briefly and the motor hum was a deal breaker. I have a Garmin 530 and the amount of data possible is way more than I care about between all the various apps.

Wait, you are TQmotorguy and don't own one? May have tipped your hand a bit.

Every since I got my EXe I feel like nobody has a clue. I also bend over backwards to allow hikers to have the right of way in either direction by stopping and saying thanks. Goes a long way to diffusing any possible confrontations. Having a bell is annoying but most thank me for having it.

There is mass sharing with the fork so I would think the total weight x leverage ratio equation would result in a higher number. For instance, at 187lbs TF gets a 400lb spring rate for a 4 bar.

Just a characteristic of the motor that I don't much think about anymore. If I do notice it I just pedal a touch harder and all is forgiven.

Good thinking. I would think the main failure mode in the axle bearings is Brinelling. There is so little rotation there that the balls tend to stay in the same location and wear a pit into the race. All APB bikes now have two expensive structures (chain stays and seat stays) co-located with...

Outstanding article- thanks. Love them or hate them, chains are extremely efficient.

I am not finding work to be of much interest today..... Started off as a 9.7 in November. Plan was to ride it stock for a while to do incremental upgrades as needed. Plan lasted about five minutes. Current build. Fox Factory 38 fork at 160mm with one token. Fox Factory Float X at 162.5 mm...

The Factory LSC has a range of adjustment that is easily felt. The LSC knob on the Performance does not. Others might argue passionately that it does. Fox says you need a base valve assembly for $90 to complete the mod and and I am tending to think they know of what they speak. For $30 it...

Looping back to the LSC knob upgrade for the Fox Float X Performance. I bought a Fox Float X Factory to swap back and forth on to see what the differences are. Same air pressures, same .2 volume spacers. It does not take much to tell that there are pretty substantial differences between the...

This one is more fun. Its mind boggling how much punishment the 'old' stuff can take.

In my line of work the customer is privy to almost all of our work product. They approve/critique our design throughout the process and we have to show that it works with the requirements they impose upon us. When the product is delivered we ship them the complete hardware, traceability, and...

I have been waffling on what to do about more battery. Last year I spent three weeks driving around the West with my Decoy on the back of my travel trailer. Thankfully it was incredibly easy to pull the battery and bring it into the truck to charge. Sometimes I would ride in the morning then...

Kaz on PB rode the new SRAM tranny on his EX for quite a while. I suspect that SRAM would not disqualify Trek from its potential customer list as well.