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Trek Emonda ALR 5 Disc

The road bike is a real eye-catcher if you like it sober. There are still a few weight tuning options, so you can get under 8kg. For me, the key selling point: unlike carbon, aluminium can be reused.

This bike is a lot lighter than my old one, glad I bought it

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Delivered in a giant box, just handlebars to straighten and done. Nice looking bike, balanced appearance, sober in construction and colour and colour transitions. Full shimano 105 fittings (apart from the hubs). Feels stiff and solid despite its light frame. Minus points: small scratch on angled tube (not big enough to fall over, but still). Actually delivered with one spacer too few to properly adjust headset (either expander needs to be deeper). Luckily still have spacers lying around, fork tube shortening is for later. Grease/paste was used between stem and handlebars, but no grease was used on stem bolts. Wheels pinged when first ridden. I know they are factory wheels, but as a wheel builder I checked the spoke tension all around. Fairly low tension and quite some imbalance in spoke tension across the spokes. But let's wait and see how this holds up in the future. Despite these flaws, I am very satisfied with this purchase, but we'll have to wait and see if this is confirmed in the future.

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Very nice purchase, nice that the bike is well adjusted, bike feels solid

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