Other 2025 Rail Gen5 bikes

mustclime

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lol at gram counters on e bikes. Fun fact, bikes without motors and batteries weigh less than e bikes. You worried about weight, ride a meat powered bike.
 

hahninthehood

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Nov 6, 2024
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lol at gram counters on e bikes. Fun fact, bikes without motors and batteries weigh less than e bikes. You worried about weight, ride a meat powered bike.
Looking at the weight doesn’t mean I’m worried about it. I wouldn’t buy it if I was. But since this is an enthusiast forum, weight is a factor (among others) in both handling and distance. And as an enthusiast I’m curious about the factors that go into the weight. Is that okay with you?
 

mustclime

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Apr 19, 2023
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New Jerzy
Looking at the weight doesn’t mean I’m worried about it. I wouldn’t buy it if I was. But since this is an enthusiast forum, weight is a factor (among others) in both handling and distance. And as an enthusiast I’m curious about the factors that go into the weight. Is that okay with you?
The extra weight was needed, I have seen 2 cracked Rail frames and trek increased the travel on the new rail. More travel generally means people are going to ride them harder.
 

fasterjason

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Dec 17, 2022
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lol at gram counters on e bikes. Fun fact, bikes without motors and batteries weigh less than e bikes. You worried about weight, ride a meat powered bike.
If I am racing bio then I am concerned about grams overall. On a full-power ebike not so much, but I am concerned about performance and counting grams on rotational and unsprung mass is critical. I have run 170mm forks on my rails for last four years and stroked the shock to 62.5mm.

For a given price point manufacturers should be selling us Al frames with carbon wheels instead of carbon frames with Al wheels.
 

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