New trek boone feedback
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I ride the boone rsl as a all road bike. I love the geometry. I see the new one has a new cable routing system which looks better in person than the cable freak system. I dont like how the rear brake cable runs, the system looks much cleaner. Anyone have one? Any ideas on weight to order frame? Anyone weighed a frame, supposed to be a fair amount lighter, probably due to losing the front isospeed. Appreciate any other feedback, is it basically the same frame except new cable routing?
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Hi, it is my first answer here although I follow this forum years..
I used to ride the last boone (2020/2021) model as cx racing/gravel/ alrroad bike as you switching just wheels/tyres. I love it.
I was very sceptical to change into new one, couldn't belive could be better.
I use the new one from april this year, it is awasome. The bigger diameter of tubes makes huge difference, I feel more stiffness ( I am 80kg). Totally different bb solved the problem of last model, I needed to replace bearings every 4-5 months. The head tube and fork Emonda style are very estetic and stiff too. I don't feel the lack of front iso speed, in my opinion the back one is more active as in previous model. But the biggest difference is a tyre clearence. 36 mm has a lot of space where it was a maximum for the old one. I believe 40-42 is not a problem.
Unfortunately I didn't check it on the scale because I was on a holiday when the frame arrived and was assambled.
At the moment with Force AXS, lot of heavy components my road setup ( 44t /10-33), Bontrager Aelous Rsl 51 it is about 7.7 kgcomplete bike.
Also painting is beautiful. It looks like project one but you get it for free;)
Excuse my english, it is really even not my 3rd language but I hope to improove
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Thank you pb85 for that review! I have a cantilever brake Boone (2016) and a disc Boone (2018...I think) and both are great bikes except for BB90, which is terrible! I am looking at getting the new Trek Boone (with the T47 BB...much better than BB90!). My only hesitation is that I am waiting to see the details of Cervelo's new cyclocross bike, which is supposed to be available this summer (at least the details, if not the actual bike!). I like how Trek is routing the cables on the new Boone and am thinking this might be better than fully internal cables. What is your opinion?
Cable routing is great. Not so complicated, very quiet and "enough aero ". Aspecially using wireless axs you can not see to much, the look of the bike is very clean.Spinlikemad wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 11:38 pmThank you pb85 for that review! I have a cantilever brake Boone (2016) and a disc Boone (2018...I think) and both are great bikes except for BB90, which is terrible! I am looking at getting the new Trek Boone (with the T47 BB...much better than BB90!). My only hesitation is that I am waiting to see the details of Cervelo's new cyclocross bike, which is supposed to be available this summer (at least the details, if not the actual bike!). I like how Trek is routing the cables on the new Boone and am thinking this might be better than fully internal cables. What is your opinion?
Regarding to Cervelo, I really like it and hope too see soon. I'm just curious about tyre clearence and comfort for every day use. For cx only I would take it 100%. The Isospeed makes so much job, I can not imagine riding without it. I do quite a lot "team gravel rides" and Boone thank's to that is really fast and extra comfy (or it's extra fast because it's comfy)
I ordered mine September 21 as a black colour bike and got April 22 red colour frame. In my area Boones are available only in shops which placed an orders for few pieces. It is not possible at the moment to add some frame to the order.
Not really...Emonda Slr is Oclv800 material, Boone is Oclv600 so based on Emonda experience is at least 150g weight difference plus Iso Speed. It is not a feather light frame (suppose Crux is lighter) but it's so comfortable I wouldn't change to any other frame.
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I have a 2019 Boone RSL disc that is great - and I only got this new one due to marketing indicating the frame is 850 grams, however, I likely only noticed what I wanted to see since there is other marketing indicating the frame/fork for the 2022 is 15XX grams, which is what mine is. Therefore, I replaced a perfectly good boone for a very marginal gain, or in other words, I probably paid about 3,000 dollars to save about 100-200 grams for frame and fork - but I am excited about the new cable routing so that is a positive!