That Trek is an attractive bike.
Originally Posted by
AllWeatherJeff
However, trains will be integral to my bikepacking itineraries once our western re-tranplantation is complete.
Will you be standing next to the bike, guarding it against potential damage; or will you have to put it into a baggage car and just hope that no oaf throws anything onto it; or something between these extremes?
Originally Posted by
unterhausen
The industry is moving away from rim brakes, the main thing I'm worried about is the availability of good rims.
I happen to be in Japan. Here there's at least one company manufacturing (or anyway having its name attached to) new 126mm and even 120mm OLD rear hubs. (
Here.) Not sure about 120mm, but I imagine that wherever you are, with a little websearching and/or ingenuity you too would be able to locate new or as-new126mm rear hubs. I suspect that this tells us something about the continuing availability of aluminium rims. I'm pretty sure that I'll predecease the disappearance of rim-brake-suitable rims -- and if I were a lot less sure of it, I'd buy half a dozen as spares.