It makes since if you ride 3-4 times per week minimum, then you have time to ride it. I say buy yourself a 28lb trail bike. I had my Ripley prior to my Rise, but in the year I’ve owned my Rise, my Ripley has only seen 4 rides. This partly do to nagging injuries and my work schedule only allowing...
It’s good to keep the pedal bike around, as long as you can afford a 9 to 10k Carbon weight collecting dust in your garage. I’ve had the Rise for just over a year now and my 10k Ripley with XX1 AXS has only seen 4 rides. I usually only ride once a week do to various injuries, which is the reason...
Talk about Trek missing the boat on the GX model pricing at $11,000. Buy the XT model for 9,000+ 600 GX AXS+ 450 X01 cassette and chain=$10,150. Save around $800 or so and have better/lighter cassette, chain and XT 8120 brakes over Guide RSC brakes. You can also run the XT cassette/ chain combo...
Send Invisiframe a message. I know you are installing on the same size frame, but there will be some different contours of the alloy vs carbon. Not to mention different mounting hole locations and a thicker DT.
You must not own or haven't ridden a Rise for any amount of time. My 41-42 pound Rise has a lot of similarities to my 27 pound Ripley and is just as agile on flowy single track trails as my Ripley is.
One would think that someone could step on the non drive side pedal at 3 or 9 o'clock and another person could break the nut lose using a breaker bar/ cheater bar if needed. I've had many things at work that wouldn't budge, but a cheater bar has always come to the rescue. A little amount of heat...
I agree. I weigh 190 pounds and I'm running 203 front/ 180mm rear RT-86 rotors with my stock 4 pot Shimano 8120 brakes and they stop at the same point as my 27 pound trail bike with 2 pot Shimano 8000 brakes. My M10 with Float X weighs 41.25 pounds.