Trek and no Deep Dish Wheels
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2015-03-27 7:22 AM |
Veteran 405 New York, Connecticut | Subject: Trek and no Deep Dish Wheels How come Trek doesn't have their upper echelon bikes with Deep dish wheels like every other brand. Trek has pretty much stock wheels on their $5,000 bikes . When specialized and Cervelo and many others have 40mm+ wheel-sets. Makes it more attractive to get a nicer wheel set when you are paying that type of cash.. |
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2015-03-27 7:28 AM in reply to: husse23 |
Not a Coach 11473 Media, PA | Subject: RE: Trek and no Deep Dish Wheels For those spending that type of cash, they are likely willing and able to select and buy their own wheelset of choice. Why raise the total cost of the bike for some when they have no interest in the wheels provided? |
2015-03-27 7:40 AM in reply to: husse23 |
Master 10208 Northern IL | Subject: RE: Trek and no Deep Dish Wheels Take a look at Project One. It's their custom program. They have loads of options in there. You can put any Shimano or SRAM drivetrain on. They used to have Campagnolo too, but looks like they dropped that off. Lots of wheel options in there too from a very basic box set up to Aeolus 9. What you see listed in the completed bikes are some basic stock options with considerations like JohnnyKay mentioned. $5,000 isn't quite their upper level. That only buys their top level frame. And that's the case with other brands as well. Not all, but Trek is not alone in this. |
2015-03-27 7:49 AM in reply to: husse23 |
Extreme Veteran 1986 Cypress, TX | Subject: RE: Trek and no Deep Dish Wheels Like Brigby said, Project One custom builds have deep dish options. The choices are Aura 5 (50mm clinchers with aluminum brake track), and the high end Aeolus D3 full carbon wheels (clincher and tubular) that come in sizes 35, 50, 70, and 90 mm. |
2015-03-27 8:46 AM in reply to: GMAN 19030 |
Pro 15655 | Subject: RE: Trek and no Deep Dish Wheels Jr. has a Madone 5.9 for DL racing. The Bontrager Race Lite wheelset is comes with is actually a pretty solid set of wheels and we've been happy with them. (if a 17 year old boy can't break the hell out of something then I feel confident calling it solid) Since we already own a few sets of deep wheels I'm glad it didn't come with upgraded wheels and push the price past the $5,000 mark where it already is. I've bought more then my share of higher end bikes the last few years as my kids have continued to grow.......one of the best things I did was find a few sets of really nice race wheels at a good price that work across the board. Shop, shop, shop and you can find barely used Zipp 404 firecrest wheels for 1,000 - 1200 bucks barely used. The best part of buying equipment for bikes is that the market is flooded with barely used high end equipment that you can buy for a fraction of retail. The real problem with the high end Trek bikes is the stupid bontrager integrated brakes. If you buy one.....just switch them out for Ultegra or Dura Ace brakes and throw the bontrager brakes in the trash where they belong. |
2015-03-27 9:51 PM in reply to: Left Brain |
1055 | Subject: RE: Trek and no Deep Dish Wheels Yeah, I'd have to agree that the box wheels on the upper end Trek's are pretty solid while not driving up the price point. I wouldn't have wanted to pay another 1500 on top of what I already shelled out for my Madone to have deep dish wheels. |
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2015-03-28 6:30 AM in reply to: husse23 |
Champion 9407 Montague Gold Mines, Nova Scotia | Subject: RE: Trek and no Deep Dish Wheels In addition to what others have said, the "deep" wheels that come stock on many bikes are tweener wheels; somewhere between a good training wheel and a good race wheel. Like most things that try to do everything, they end up doing nothing well. Too fragile to be a solid everyday training wheelset and not aero enough to offer much in the way of race benefit. Ultimately they look good but most bikes would be better specced with a good set of training wheels leaving owner to buy appropriate race wheels when/if they decide. Shane |
2015-03-29 8:04 AM in reply to: 0 |
Pro 5892 , New Hampshire | Subject: RE: Trek and no Deep Dish Wheels Originally posted by gsmacleod In addition to what others have said, the "deep" wheels that come stock on many bikes are tweener wheels; somewhere between a good training wheel and a good race wheel. Like most things that try to do everything, they end up doing nothing well. Too fragile to be a solid everyday training wheelset and not aero enough to offer much in the way of race benefit. Ultimately they look good but most bikes would be better specced with a good set of training wheels leaving owner to buy appropriate race wheels when/if they decide. Shane X2! Most people spending money on a "super bike" tend to also spend money on race wheels. Edited by audiojan 2015-03-29 8:05 AM |
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