Originally Posted by
nesteel
I work part time for a retail shop that sells Salsa and Trek, among others. The Trek 520 was top on my list, until I saw the 2019 spec sheet for it. What a waste; aluminum fork and bottom shelf components. Trek really shot that bike down the drain this year. Besides, the employee pricing on the Salsa was impossible to turn down.
I wish I had not sold my 94 Trek 520 but , there was a young man who needed it worse than I did, it was truly a proto gravel bike as those years had a slightly higher bottom bracket and had pretty wide clearances for bigger tires.
I can't believe they thought it was a good idea to put an aluminum fork on the 520 ..