Top Fuel 9.9

njee20

Had this for a month or so now, but finally got around to riding it yesterday, seems to go pretty quickly.

Few pics here

Don't think you can post Fotopic photos on here can you!?

The XX is impressive, very quick shifting. Few more mods to make, ZTR Podium wheels, New Ultimate seat mast, ti Egg Beaters for summer use and maybe a SID fork depending on whether the Fox ever feels any better than it does at the moment! Bike climbs better than I'd expected, having come from an Epic.[/img]

jay12

woah that must have cost loads!!

nyway that looks really nice. have fun riding it and getting it dirty

ramemtbers

looks nice man, have fun riding it. looks sweet

LoUiS1985

awesome ride dude

coxy17

great ride liking the new xx stuff

njee20

Cheers guys, didn't cost that much as I benefit from trade prices :-)

The XX is definitely impressive, but I'd question whether it's worth the money... £300 for a cassette I'm not so sure about!

Stoo61

:shock:

ramemtbers

How much does it weigh???

Anonymous

Very nice Trek Buddy, 8)
is that stem a aftermarket one
never heard of the New ultimate.

freeride-mike

very nice :shock:

Dirtydog11

Lovely bike.

I can see a lot of Pro/Semi Pro racers switching from XTR to XX, the weight savings are just to great to be ignored, around 300 grams for the groupset I think.

I agree those cassettes are expensive but the machining that's gone into them is amazing. CNC machined from billet steel :shock: it must feel very stiff.

I think the engineers brief must have been design us the lightest, stiffest groupset you can irrespective of price.

pmac1893

As those cassettes take 9 hours to machine, i'd say 300 is about right.

njee20

Sorry, Christmas getting in the way of internet, how rude of the family!

It currently weighs just over 21.5lbs as seen there with the Mud X tyres. Come the race season I'm changing to some ZTR Podium wheels, ti Egg Beaters, lighter tyres etc, which will get it under 20lbs hopefully.

The New Ultimate stem is after market, they're a Danish company who do really nice lightweight subtle stuff, think KCNC but lighter and less gaudy! I'm the UK distributor, so it makes sense to use it! The white 100mm stem is 102g, and still cheaper than Thomson! They do a 34.0 seatmast for it too, so I've got one of those on order, that should drop a chunk of weight over the Bontrager one, and look nicer!

Yeah I do agree about the 'value' of the cassette, they're beautifully made and the weight is really impressive, that 11-36 still weighs less than an XTR M970 after all! The shifting on the front mech is very impressive particularly, the lever throw and shift speed is akin to shifting on the rear of most other groupsets!

There's rumours of XX Grip Shift appearing later next year, which I suspect I will adopt, just can't beat it for racing!

bike-a-swan

i'm amazed you can actually put spesh wheels on a trek without both exploding on contact

njee20

Hmmm indeed, I just couldn't justify keeping the XXX Lites, sure they're very nice, but crazy expensive and not very light!

allthegearnoidea

thats a Very nice bike there matey!
great weight for a full sus too! very envious!

trekhead

That`s a real cracker, lucky boy 8)

Speckled Pants

Drool!!! :P

If i had the money one of these would be on my list

jayson

Thats an insanely nice bike but if it was mine i would have to put an XTR triple on the front, other than that i really cant see how it could be improved upon.

Im extremely jealous :oops:

Kall

Absolutley stunning! I have a EX9 but sooo want a carbon version!!

Might have to swap to the Top Fuel next time!!

The Prodigy

Lovely bike, lucky fella