Advantages: Price, style Disadvantages: For this price you don't get brilliance!
...bikes within my budget, the Trek 820 immediately caught my eye. It looks great (mine is blue/silver but I believe it also comes in red/silver). I was very wary of cheaper bikes that try a little too hard to look better than they are. The Trek 820 looks much like any other Trek, simple but stylish.
The 820 is pretty much bottom of the Trek mountain bike range, but that doesn't mean it's crap. Trek are generally recognised as one of the better bike ... ...which is now a rather outdated, heavy material. However, for the casual cyclist this shouldn't be any problem. The 820 is only going to be too heavy if you're carrying it up mountains/over rivers/whatever the pros do! In fact you'd be hard pushed to tell the difference between this and an aluminium frame.
The ride is much smoother than anything else I've experienced. Front suspension forks really do make a difference, and although the ones provided ...
d13vsc 06.04.2004
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