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Old 08-29-20, 06:31 PM
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Oh my gosh. This looks beautiful but sounds rather dreadful when you get to the details. You can get a steel Jamis Renegade with GRX 400 derailleurs AND shifters, carbon fork and 5 pounds lighter for less money. Is Trek trying to rip-off very poorly educated bike shoppers with this? At that price and just basic Chrome Moly, not even Reynolds 520... What is that monstrosity of a front rack and giant Ortleibs doing on a bike with no rear rack? What were they thinking? Was this designed by committee instead of people that ride bikes?

https://www.jamisbikes.com/usa/renegades3.html

The older 520s were great bikes, so I'd recommend grabing one on CL or ebay instead for $600.

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