profit is king,they are a business after all.
too rich for me sadly

Frame only available for £700 I was told today. Ouch!

Is that Frame or Frame and fork?
Doesn’t strike me as being completely unreasonable.
Krampus Ops F+F is £600 and I’d argue there is less clever stuff going on with Surly.

Fear not custodians of low price, many will copy and make poor attempts.

Oh teh ironing!

Thing is I don’t think the 700 includes the fork 😥

The picture on the Trek website shows frame only, no fork.

It’s the wrong colour too – should have gone with the blue.

Is the Stache 5 the most expensive frame & fork combo out there now?

Looks like an awesome bike. I paid almost double that to get something very similar custom built not long ago. If this was around then I’d have had one in a flash for £700. There’s nothing else like it on th market which makes it worth the premium imo.

munrobiker – Member
Fear not custodians of low price, many will copy and make poor attempts.

Oh teh ironing!

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Do you think he means O-O ?

Frame only available for £700 I was told today. Ouch!
Is that Frame or Frame and fork?

Frame only, not importing rigid fork iirc

bonesetter – Member

I sent an inquiry to a US Trek dealer and frame is $899

FFS! What gives

Errr VAT?

In the US it’s $900 plus tax, in the UK it’s $875 plus tax ($1.50 to £1)

Unfortunately there is no stock of frames or complete bikes. Trek released the bikes and they were sold out in a matter of hours.
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I saw one tonight on our local night ride tonight, looks ace!! I didn’t get to try it, but it looks pretty nimble too.

They want you to by a full bike. New hub standards, which are likely to become part of new design spec for lots of 29ers, fork that properly fits a 3″ tyre, means this makes allot more sense as a package.
Bet it rides well.

this makes allot more sense as a package

Yup. 🙂

They are being demoed https://instagram.com/p/11WYrTPyDX/

[url=https://flic.kr/p/shbgTk]Trek Stache 9 29+[/url] by South Downs MTB Skills, on Flickr

futon river crossing – Member
I saw one tonight on our local night ride tonight, looks ace!! I didn’t get to try it, but it looks pretty nimble too.

Wot no pics?

Ha ha, that was me Futon, and that pic above is one from yesterday morning. Great bike, really enjoyed riding it. Ace on the fast flowy stuff and also steep techy stuff, required a little more effort in the tight singletrack of Stanmer Park. But the bars were 750mm, which is about 20mm wider than you can safely get through Stanmer at speed.

I loved it, but for me it would be even better if it had a double on the front, I’m not a single front ring lover for the sort of riding I do. That aside I thought it was great.

Thanks for the lend South Downs Bikes 🙂

Too busy riding 😉 – same bike pictured ^^^^ looks really nice in the flesh. I’d love to do a side by side comparison with a Jones Plus.

It certainly looked like you were having fun on it Jim!

Trek Stache 9 29+ by South Downs MTB Skills, on Flickr

Trek Stache 9 29+ by South Downs MTB Skills, on Flickr

Trek Stache 9 29+ by South Downs MTB Skills, on Flickr

Trek Stache 9 29+ by South Downs MTB Skills, on Flickr

Trek Stache 9 29+ by South Downs MTB Skills, on Flickr

Trek Stache 9 29+ by South Downs MTB Skills, on Flickr

Trek Stache 9 29+ by South Downs MTB Skills, on Flickr

Love that rear drop out. You can see why it’s an expensive frame

Bike was being ran with dropout in the ‘longest’ position then

And 30T front ring

One thing – mud clearance on the chainstay looked pretty minimal, might need a slightly smaller tyre for winter mud?

In reality I don’t think the chainstay clearance is any worse than my Sync probably, but you could always run something a bit thinner in the winter. After riding this I need to get proper 3″ tyres onto my Genesis Longitude ASAP, it was so much fun!

Can I ask how the fork rode? Or what you thought about it in general?

The fork was pretty good, previously I had a Manitou Tower, which I sold because it felt too flexy and I didn’t feel the damping kept it under control when the going got tough. This fork has the clearance for a plus size tyre (and plenty of it), is 34mm. It feels quite a lot stiffer and the damping seemed to keep everything better controlled than the Tower. I took it down some pretty rough stuff and got PR’s on it, so it must have done OK!

Trek have folded

Now importing Stache 5’s

Deposit down…

Now importing Stache 5’s

Deposit down…

Link please

South Downs Bikes

Alex is your man

http://www.southdownsbikes.com/

How much for a 5?

Really tempted to get one, but will probably wait for a fuse instead…

Clink – Member
How much for a 5?

Nothing on UK page yet but the £ price is between 72 and 75% of the $ price. £1300 ish perhaps if that formula is applicable?

£1700 I reckon, same as complete Krampus!

johnnystorm – Member

Nothing on UK page yet but the £ price is between 72 and 75% of the $ price. £1300 ish perhaps if that formula is applicable?

Between 100% and 110% of the $ price usually closer.

I was working on the 7 and 9 prices, $2519/£1900 & $3879/£2800 respectively, as opposed to Dollars into Pounds then add on the premium.

US price for the 5 direct conversion into GBP then multiplied by 110% is £1250 so near as dammit.

So, here’s where it stands. Trek are not definitely bringing in the Stache 5

My comment was made in the blur of excitement (and had just got back from the boozer)

BUT – Trek are watching this space, and the interest which is being generated in the 5. South Down Bikes have definites on two 5’s and there are 3 on this thread who have expressed firm interest

SO – thing to do is contact your Trek dealer and get them to contact Trek UK to help get this bike over here. It’s just a matter of getting enough interest and Trek will get the bikes here

There’s not a retail price yet, but ~£1200 or so has been mooted

Some good stuff here on wheel/tyre size….

PLUS Stache talk from Trek (6.34 on)

[video]http://www.bikemag.com/gear/27-bikes/[/video]

Stache 5 available Sept 29th