The bike: Trek Fuel 90 from about 2003. Broke the main triangle and cracked a chainstay jumping off rocks. It took a year, but Trek replaced both parts. This is a lot like replacing the whole bike, except that they didn’t have an aluminum rear triangle handy, so this is actually a carbon rear triangle. I still weigh about 225 lbs and I certainly haven’t become more graceful, so I’ve tried to be more careful with the bike.
Here’s the stuff planned:
- rebuild the front shock.
- get a trailer to keep some weight off the back.
- replace the entire chain/cluster/ring system.
- add a nice front rack (to keep more weight off the back).
- add more hand positions.
- add some appropriate tires.
- (pie in the sky) replace levers and shifters (beat up in crashes)