Cyclopaat, an alter ego with a twist
All things Sram, in my case eTap AXS
I’ve been riding my Trek Speed Concept SLR 9 for a few months now since it was deliverd in February.
That is, because of the lousy weather and me not wanting it to get dirty on its maiden voyage, I didn’t actually ride on it before early March 😂
But since then, I’ve already taken it out for a spin more often than I ‘promised’ Paula – and myself, sorta – when I got it…
Believe it or not, but we’ve got another new bike day to celebrate!
Before you start wondering how many new bike days I can get, let me assure you that I will not be having one anytime soon…
Instead, this new bike day is totally Paula’s party 🥳🥳🥳
Just a short post to tell you (who cares?) that my Trek Speed Concept SLR 9 has arrived!
I accidentally saw they were working on it last week, when I visited my LBS.
As Paula was at the hospital to visit a friend, I wanted to kill the time and entered the store.
(I didn’t really need anything, but I “scored” a fitting jersey nonetheless 😂)
The bike was 90% ready, so I’ve been waiting for a phone call all of last week.
They called me several times, but that was to discuss options for (tubeless) tires and stuff like that.
Trek Speed Concept SLR 9 AXS
Update Jan. 9
Trek dropped the price of the SLR 9 AXS.
That bike has Sram RED instead of Sram Force.
The LBS can offer me an additional discount, meaning I’m “only” paying ~750 more.
Which is more than the total for my Sonora 🤪
Paula also sanctioned this additional increase, so I informed them that it was okay.
The original post on the purchase of the Trek Speed Concept SLR 7 AXS is below.
My Canyon SpeedMax was in for a parts swap and I decided to “slightly” adjust it into a “Second – and Limited – Edition”.
I needed to replace the worn out chain, cassette and (big) chain ring.
This what you get when you ride 15+ K (9.2+ K for John) on your bike all year round, I guess…
(I ride a lot more, but the other – gravel/MTB/dedicated Tacx/spinning – bikes do not wear out my Canyon.)
As I hardly ever – as in next to never – use my small chainring, and only about 5 of the 12 cogs on the cassette, I made a change to the gearing.
