Road Cycling · Public discussion

My new bike

Psycholist · 2003-12-23T02:06:15+00:00

I've just finished reading a post from someone who took a peek behind the tree and found a new Colnago C-50 waiting for him. Great for him. I got a new Trek 5500 last January courtesy of the insurance company of the girl who hit me with her car the prior October. I've had Trek 5500s for years now. It was new ... but it wasn't. The bike I lost in the crash was getting pretty long in the tooth and I was saving for a replacement when God intervened. But shortly after I got the new Trek, I saw a closeout deal in Excel Sports catalog for a K2 Mod5 frame, fork and stem for $788. I had ridden with one of the Jittery Joe's team riders at a century in GA and he was on one. He raved about it and it was a gorgeous thing. Well, I could afford the $788. I was able to salvage a good bit of the DuraAce group off the crashed bike. I sprung for a new carbon bar and seatpost. And I've always had plenty of nice wheels hanging around. So for just around $1,200 outlay I had this new K2 bike. I've always heard people say the Trek OCLV had a kind of dead or wooden road feel to it. I never knew what that meant. Now I do. The K2 is lively and responsive and so fun to ride that my Trek hardly comes out to play at all anymore. I almost feel guilty for having such a fine bike just sitting around for "backup." But I'm especially proud to have put together such a fine machine as this K2 for only $1,200. You can really do a lot shopping those closeouts! FWIW, Bob C.

Started by Psycholist · 23 December 2003 · Last activity 30 December 2003 · 5 posts · 659 views

← Back to Road Cycling

Thread details

What we know about this thread

Original section: Road Cycling
Published: 23 December 2003
Last activity: 30 December 2003
Original author: Psycholist
Posts: 5
Discussion status: Public discussion
Total views: 659
Views / 30 days: 0
Topics: Reynolds and Columbus tubing Steel frames

The navigation and discussion metadata provide context. Posts remain in their original chronological order.

Original post
Psycholist
Archived post

23 December 2003, 02:06 UTC #1

I've just finished reading a post from someone who took a peek behind the tree and found a new
Colnago C-50 waiting for him. Great for him.
I got a new Trek 5500 last January courtesy of the insurance company of the girl who hit me with her
car the prior October. I've had Trek 5500s for years now. It was new ... but it wasn't.
The bike I lost in the crash was getting pretty long in the tooth and I was saving for a replacement
when God intervened. But shortly after I got the new Trek, I saw a closeout deal in Excel Sports
catalog for a K2 Mod5 frame, fork and stem for $788. I had ridden with one of the Jittery Joe's team
riders at a century in GA and he was on one. He raved about it and it was a gorgeous thing. Well, I
could afford the $788. I was able to salvage a good bit of the DuraAce group off the crashed bike. I
sprung for a new carbon bar and seatpost. And I've always had plenty of nice wheels hanging around.
So for just around $1,200 outlay I had this new K2 bike.
I've always heard people say the Trek OCLV had a kind of dead or wooden road feel to it. I never
knew what that meant. Now I do. The K2 is lively and responsive and so fun to ride that my Trek
hardly comes out to play at all anymore. I almost feel guilty for having such a fine bike just
sitting around for "backup."
But I'm especially proud to have put together such a fine machine as this K2 for only $1,200.
You can really do a lot shopping those closeouts!
FWIW,
Bob C.

Report
Per ElmsäTer
Archived post

23 December 2003, 02:06 UTC #2

psycholist said:
I've always heard people say the Trek OCLV had a kind of dead or wooden road feel to it. I never
knew what that meant. Now I do. The K2 is lively and responsive and so fun to ride that my Trek
hardly comes out to play at all anymore. I almost feel guilty for having such a fine bike just
sitting around for "backup."
Traitor!! You know that a Trek OCLV bike has a soul. She'll get back at you one day by really
feeling like a wooden horse or something much worse than that. If you wanna mess with your K2 you
have to assure your 5500 that you'r only doing it to save her for the best rides yadda yadda. You
know how that goes. For instance buying her nicer wheels than the K2 will be a good way to keep
her happy.
--
Perre
You have to be smarter than a robot to reply.

Report
Psycholist
Archived post

23 December 2003, 04:08 UTC #3

"Per Elmsäter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:
Traitor!! You know that a Trek OCLV bike has a soul. She'll get back at you one day

by
Quoted message said:
really feeling like a wooden horse or something much worse than that. If

you
Quoted message said:
wanna mess with your K2 you have to assure your 5500 that you'r only doing it to save her for the
best rides yadda yadda. You know how that goes. For instance buying her nicer wheels than the K2
will be a good way to keep

her
Quoted message said:
happy.
--
Perre
Funny you mention it. I have a set of hand-built custom wheels (velocity aeroheads/American Classic
hubs, etc.) that I ordered when I got the new Trek. They're super-sweet wheels. I got them for the
Trek and I've left them on the Trek ... I guess out of respect or some such foolishness like that.
The K2 is running a set of weird Ritchey OCR wheels that I picked up from a Nashbar catalog
closeout two years ago. They're not exactly the lightest or snazziest wheels in the world, but
they've been good.
As you suggested, I've told the Trek she gets to be the bike of choice on my major events in the
mountains. She's about a pound lighter than the K2 thanks to those wheels and a few other things.
Bob C.

Report
Per ElmsäTer
Archived post

23 December 2003, 20:06 UTC #4

psycholist said:
"Per Elmsäter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:
Traitor!! You know that a Trek OCLV bike has a soul. She'll get back at you one day by really
feeling like a wooden horse or something much worse than that. If you wanna mess with your K2 you
have to assure your 5500 that you'r only doing it to save her for the best rides yadda yadda. You
know how that goes. For instance buying her nicer wheels than the K2 will be a good way to keep
her happy.
--
Perre
Funny you mention it. I have a set of hand-built custom wheels (velocity aeroheads/American
Classic hubs, etc.) that I ordered when I got the new Trek. They're super-sweet wheels. I got them
for the Trek and I've left them on the Trek ... I guess out of respect or some such foolishness
like that. The K2 is running a set of weird Ritchey OCR wheels that I picked up from a Nashbar
catalog closeout two years ago. They're not exactly the lightest or snazziest wheels in the world,
but they've been good.
As you suggested, I've told the Trek she gets to be the bike of choice on my major events in the
mountains. She's about a pound lighter than the K2 thanks to those wheels and a few other things.
Bob C.
Good. I take back the traitor part 😉 And yes it's good to have two nice bikes. You don't have to
postpone a ride just because your bike is being worked on at your LBS or whatever.
--
Perre
You have to be smarter than a robot to reply.

Report
Tom Kunich
Archived post

30 December 2003, 02:54 UTC #5

"Per Elmsäter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:
psycholist said:
"Per Elmsäter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:
Traitor!! You know that a Trek OCLV bike has a soul. She'll get back at you one day by really
feeling like a wooden horse or something much worse than that. If you wanna mess with your K2
you have to

assure
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
your 5500 that you'r only doing it to save her for the best rides yadda yadda. You know how
that goes. For instance buying her

nicer
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
wheels than the K2 will be a good way to keep her happy.
Funny you mention it. I have a set of hand-built custom wheels (velocity aeroheads/American
Classic hubs, etc.) that I ordered

when
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
I got the new Trek. They're super-sweet wheels. I got them for

the
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Trek and I've left them on the Trek ... I guess out of respect or some such foolishness like
that. The K2 is running a set of weird Ritchey OCR wheels that I picked up from a Nashbar
catalog

closeout
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
two years ago. They're not exactly the lightest or snazziest

wheels
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
in the world, but they've been good.
As you suggested, I've told the Trek she gets to be the bike of choice on my major events in the
mountains. She's about a pound lighter than the K2 thanks to those wheels and a few other
things.
Good. I take back the traitor part 😉 And yes it's good to have two nice bikes. You don't have to
postpone

a ride
Quoted message said:
just because your bike is being worked on at your LBS or whatever.
You change your favorites from time to time. I have 10 bikes and 8 of them are road bikes. Some
times I like the Vitus, another time the Eddy and another the Colnago. But that Bottecchia that I
only ride on centuries still rides the best with it's old Aelle Columbus tubing that I got from Osi
so long ago that it was new.

Report

Active in the last 60 minutes

Active in this thread

0 users · 0 guests ·0 bots ·0 total

No signed-in users are active right now.

No known search crawlers active right now.

What we know about this thread

Continue through CyclingForums

Active in this thread