2010 Trek Fuel EX8 *UPDATE 16/01/2011*

D-Cyph3r

See page 2.

trekhead

Crackin bike Luke - welcome to the EX clan 8)

D-Cyph3r

Cheers mate, I was originally gonna get a rootbeer 09 like yours (placed the order and everything), but the shop emailed me the next day saying they actually didn't have any 09 bikes in stock, i'm not the hardest person to convince to upgrade so when they recommended I go for the 2010 model I jumped on it. :P

Duffer

Cracking bike. Not a fan of the panaracers though. I think the red sidewalls look a bit daft. But if they work...

What're you joining up as?

max丨mo

Welcome to Bike radar, I'm sure I recognise your name from somewhere! Did you used to post on the CustomPC forums?

D-Cyph3r

I did indeed, now living over at bit-tech since the merger.

@Duffer

Hoping to join the regiment, but if they reckon I'll be better somewhere else I wouldn't be too fussed.

muddylegs

The pictures of your bike where taken on my reserve.
You will have to join us on our summer evening rides.

D-Cyph3r

Ah, so your the warden man. Good to know your on the forums.

Not sure i'll be joining any weekday rides while i'm working unfortunately, after 8 hours on a building site throwing 3m long plasterboards about the last I want to do is go out and ride. :S

SPIRO

Nice bike fella, good luck with getting in RAF too

Davesurf20

I have XDX's on my Hifi pro and I love them. Took the Nevegals off to put the XDX's back on!

s_blanche@hotmial.co.uk

got mine white dude awesome bikes, tho il be changing my saddle aswell, bit hard

D-Cyph3r

Minor upgrade, stock 90mm stem was really quite long for me so when I saw these going on ebay for £50 I jumped on it.

60MM FSA OS115 with carbon faceplate, yum!





Spacers/steerer length are a little out now so need to order some new (carbon mebbe?) ones asap. Will take some proper pics with a decent camera next week when I get my FSA carbon riser bars to complete the front end.

Almightydutch

Very nice, the EX8 is a thing of beauty, not only to look at but on the trails aswell.

Also a custom PC geek here. Didnt use forum much but did used to get mag.

D-Cyph3r

Haha, small world isn't it.

Cant wait till next weekend, hopefully the new stem will give me more control over the front end and stop me putting too much weight on the front wheel when it's not needed. Definitely felt better just sitting on the bike.

road_donut

Bike looks ace mate

bluechair84

damn... that's the wrong colour saddle :shock:


Rest ain;t shabby though. Love the look of the Treks in recent years.

gunga73

Real nice bike mate, wouldn't mind a trek fuel ex 8


my ride- custom build Giant XTC 2010

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gunga73/se ... 3236722142

D-Cyph3r

Removed the star fangled nut today to install the X-Lite compression headset adjuster and FSA carbon spacers.

Removing the SFN was a hell of a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. Used the drill to remove the collar around the top part, knocked the lower part down a couple of mm, whacked the top star on it's side and used a bent coat hanger to yank it out, repeat with bottom part and job was a good'n.

Oldskool_Paul

That's a nice looking ride mate, love the satin black. As you said in my thread if it wasn't for the red bits some gold would look good on there

macphes01

Hi Luke

During your upgrades, did you replace your seatpost clamp? Yours being red and the supplied one is black on both colours of bike.

I have same bike in white (love it as well) and was looking to jazz it up a little, I contacted Trek/Bontrager and they told me this is not something they offer aftersales.

Cheers

D-Cyph3r

Yep, it's a Hope bolted jobby from CRC.

baba123

great bike didn't think much about the ex 8 until it became bike of the year

cgarossi

Nice one!

I'll post up some pics of my pimped up 2009 EX8

D-Cyph3r

New handlebars just installed. Couldn't find the proper cam so only mobile pics for now. hopefully my new tyres will be here tomorrow and i'll get a couple of good light pics while out.

xtc_special

Nice bars and stem, picking up my EX8 on thursday 8)

D-Cyph3r

After getting some proper pictures for another forum yesterday I thought I might aswell post them here, seen as I never got around to it earlier (the last ones have all been shoddy incremental upgrades shots):

trekhead

looking good dude 8)

D-Cyph3r

Minor update;

-PG980 cassette
-PC991 chain
-Red Jagwire Ripcord outers with silver anodised stops
-SRAM Pitstop gear cables

bigperm

Nice ride man, gear combo fail though

D-Cyph3r

Chain is a couple of links too long, chain breaker is on its way though.

MountainMonster

Nice looking upgrades to it man. Loving the carbon bars!