Advantages: good all round performance Disadvantages: slighly heavy
sometimes forget to turn it back and find myself going downhill without any damping! The BAR 2.1 is also the same in allowing you to vary the reboud adjustment.
Ride and handling are solid and the bike has shrugged off the odd crash with no problems. The Shimano Deore hydraulic brakes work well and give lots of control is these situations!.
The only slight problem I've had was the front derailleur in pushing the chain across to the big chainring, but managed to fix this after a bit of fiddling.
For the future, I'll probably upgrade the cranks to XT (being lighter and more smoother than the Shimano M440 fitted) and also the forks to 120mm travel. (The higher spec Fuel 90 has the RockShox Recon 351 U-Turn which is 85-130mm, so I know my frame can take the change)
All in all a good bike, especially if you can find it cheap as I did ...
nightbikerider 25.11.2006 (30.12.2006)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Trek Fuel 80
Advantages: GREAT LOOKS. HANDLING. COMFORT . SPEC. Disadvantages: WHITE PAINTWORK (BUT ONLY BECAUSE OF THE MORE FRQUENT CLEANING)
Lance Armstrong suggested that Trek name their top end bikes 'Madone' after the Col de la Madone in southern France. A mountain that Armstrong used to use as a training run in the run up to The Tour de France. His times up the mountain side let him know if he was ready or not!
It's no surprise then, that the 2009 Trek Madone 5.2 weighs in at around 7.7kg (just under 17lb for the oldies). A bike needs to be light if it is to haul it's rider up a mountain side without killing them.
The lightweight nature of the bike, which costs around £2500, and the rigidity of the black OCLV carbon frame and forks, make it very responsive when getting the pedals down. The same things that give you confidence throught the corners and on a descent.
The Trek Madone 5.2 comes in three different fits depending on ride comfort required. The WSD (women ...
Advantages: Good music Disadvantages: story, special effects and acting
Star trek5 the final frontier was one of the strangest star trek films to date. It doesn't even have good special effects and the acting is not as good as previous performances. The only good thing about this film is the music done by Jerry Goldsmith.
The story starts with Kirk, Spock and Mccoy camping. But shore leave is soon cancelled and the incomplete USS Enterprise leaves space dock on course for Nimbus 3. A hostage situation has taken place, one of the 3 hostages is a human dimplomat. The other two are a Romulan and a Klingon, both dimplomats. The planet is an attempt at peace which sadly failed, Kirk is given orders to rescue the hostages and beware the Klingons who are also attempting to reach Nimbus 3. Upon arriving at Nimbus 3, Kirk, Spock and Mccoy and an assault party use a shuttle to reach the planet. After a furious ...
