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Just seen the price of the 2012 Trek Slash on All Terrain Cycles website. Base model is £2,750! For that you get bottom end brakes and rubbish wheels, plus a mix of X7 and X9.
It was a bike i was considering, but thats a crazy price.
The top end Slash is £4,750, a whole £2k more, same frame, just component changes plus a reverb.
Assuming the cost of frame is £1,500, i could have hope hoops with stans flow, full XT groupset, a reverb, grips, pedals, headset, Lyrik Solo Airs, bars and stem (Easton for eg), Maxxis Minions, and a saddle, all for £3,550, so on the top end bike, what are Trek spending the extra £1,200 on!?
I can afford to buy a new bike, but on principle the prices now seem like a complete rip off.
Unfortunately trek normally only do a frame only option in carbon which wont be cheap. Lots of nice 160mm frames around the £1500 mark but agree the Slash looks very nice.
yeah i didnt think they would do a frame only. I was just amazed at the prices of the full builds. Based on similar frames, id guess the frame could retail for about £1500, and for another £2,050 quid you could build up a top end bike. I just dont understand how Trek can justify £4,750 for their top end build.
In 2007 i bought a brand new Stumpjumper FSR Comp (base model with x9 and Fox 32 Floats, similar spec to Trek's bottom end Slash) It was £1500, 4.5 years later a similar build on a bike is over £1250 more. Thats around a £300 a year increase. Manufacturing prices haven't gone up that much
just to confirm. the upper end Slash frame will be available as a seperate frameset, but it'll be a few more months.
scant - do you know how much?
Trek has been over priced for years imo.
I've noticed all the 2012 prices are the same as the 2011 models however nearly all of them are a less spec. Most of the Remedy's have a Float rather than a Talas fork now.
I was considering a Remedy. Seen some 2011 bikes reduced but none in my size. Really wanted the 9.9 frame but none left 🙁
It was a hassle buying the full bike with the kit I don't really want.
Scat talking about a Slash?? sounds well dodgy 😉 Ohh its Scant, my mistake....
Anyway, frameset might be interesting, i dont really fancy a full build. Cheers for the info.