To my way of thinking, the aluminum Stache 5 is the bike that will make 29+ a more widespread "thing" in mountain biking. You will have to decide in the end if any of this, or none of it, matters to you. Options for wheel sizes sell bikes though, and help justify $4000.00 purchases, so there is that. Most folks will just run what come wit da bike, and buy something else for other disciplines. In the end, all this, this bike can take different wheel size stuff probably will not be taken advantage of by very many riders. But.another XC carbon race bike would cost more, so. Figure on between a grand and twice that. extra wheels that would compliment this bike are expensive. Keep in mind that the Stache can run regular 29 inch wheels, which makes for the possibility that this could be your cross country race bike. The 9.6 shown here is a more reasonable $3000.00. The top-o-the-line 9.8 version gets Rock Shox's plus bike version of the venerable Pike. What is interesting about the carbon version is that it has a bit longer reach and a lower bottom bracket than the aluminum bike. The point here is that Trek has a bike which is Boosted, obviously, and is 1 X only, which is understandable, what with the short wheel base and funky bottom bracket/chain stay junction. You know, the Stache frame which has a warranty, and probably is a bit more verified for actual mountain use by testing? That cost money. Interesting to note that for a couple of years there has been a "direct-from-China "Stache-like" carbon frame available, but obviously it cost far less than the legit Trek version. There are two levels of the carbon framed Stache and a carbon frame set available as well. I mentioned in my Salsa Cycles 2017 bike post that the Stache was coming out in a carbon fiber version, and if you were paying attention last week, you saw this come true.
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