Trek Rail 5 has landed!

[philuk]

So chuffed!

Waited 10 weeks but its landed and my mrs collected it for me the other day! Went straight to dalby and did an 11 mile route with some of my mates!

Very impressed! Need to test out some tyre & shock pressures - Only had the chad plastic pedals that come with it on but ive swapped them out. Ive got a tubeless kit ready to fit at home but im tempted to wait until i need to take the tyres off before i fit them!

Arms and arse are hurting now!

 

[j3ayy]

Nice one pal

 

[markloch]

Congrats! I see Trek sells a different Rail 5 in the UK than in the US - we have just one color/battery (500) option, you've got two models (500, 625) each with two colors. More to the point, Trek's UK site shows three pages of e-mtbs, US just one. Shows you how far behind the US is ...

 

[philuk]

Congrats! I see Trek sells a different Rail 5 in the UK than in the US - we have just one color/battery (500) option, you've got two models (500, 625) each with two colors. More to the point, Trek's UK site shows three pages of e-mtbs, US just one. Shows you how far behind the US is ...

Yea there is two colour options for the 2020/2021 range, Not sure what the colour changes are for the 2022 range.

 

[dixie600mhz]

Looks brilliant! Congrats.

 

[dobbyhasfriends]

HNBD !!
also, tell your mate to decide if he wants tanwalls or not.. that red rail hurts my eyes

 

[philuk]

HNBD !!
also, tell your mate to decide if he wants tanwalls or not.. that red rail hurts my eyes

haha its not like that due to lack of effort! it was stock and recieving a damaged sidewall tyre that resulted in that

 

[philuk]

Washed the bike and got a couple of pics with it next to the other expensive piece of kit i own

 

[Hamina]

Nice color!

Some things to observe:
- Rim joints moving under tape and emptying tires
- Freehub bearing radial play
- GX derailleur ready for broken SX one and new chain
- Rockshox 35 Gold RL too tight stanchions
- Chainring nut tightening with correct tool

 

[philuk]

Nice color!

Some things to observe:
- Rim joints moving under tape and emptying tires
- Freehub bearing radial play
- GX derailleur ready for broken SX one and new chain
- Rockshox 35 Gold RL too tight stanchions
- Chainring nut tightening with correct tool

Thats great. When you say rim joints moving under tape? Is that a tubeless specific problem?

 

[Hamina]

Thats great. When you say rim joints moving under tape? Is that a tubeless specific problem?

My 2020 bike had Alex MD35 rims as stock and on my possibly bit rough use the joint moved in such way that running tubeless was too much work. They were okay for a while when I glued them and put rim tape over the joint but in the end there was too much unnecessary work for me.

Notable is that at the same time I had third freehub going and it was shit quality straight from Trek package. I just bought totally new wheelset and cushcores to keep wheels turning.

It's totally possible that you never face this issue but just came to my mind when writing some notes.

 

[philuk]

My 2020 bike had Alex MD35 rims as stock and on my possibly bit rough use the joint moved in such way that running tubeless was too much work. They were okay for a while when I glued them and put rim tape over the joint but in the end there was too much unnecessary work for me.

Notable is that at the same time I had third freehub going and it was shit quality straight from Trek package. I just bought totally new wheelset and cushcores to keep wheels turning.

It's totally possible that you never face this issue but just came to my mind when writing some notes.

Yea thats fine i appreciate the input. I plan on going tubeless but was gonna wait until i needed to swap out a tube maybe and just do it all at once