Gear Talk / Re: Anyone Familiar with the Trek 520?
« on: October 15, 2020, 07:13:23 pm »I thought the 2009 was the one year it came with fenders (shortys) although I may be mistaken(?) otherwise the 2009-2011 models appear identical. Mine is fenderless.
The Trek archive is a wealth of information about particular years and models:
https://archive.trekbikes.com/us/en/2017
I checked my records and I see that I have a 2009, not a 2010. But it is metallic root-beer. I got thrown off because you mentioned the color, and I thought root beer was only available in one year. The archive shows that both the 2009 and 2010 came in that color. The 2009 was the first year they reduced the crankset to 48/36/26, thus making it a true touring bike for the first time (even though they claimed it as such forever).
I was surprised to see in the archives that it looks like 2009 was the only year they included those short fenders. Maybe they weren't too popular.
I read this somewhere but I don't see it on my bike:Nope, I don't know what that is.
"In addition, the front brake lever has a small push pin (not sure what else to call it) that, when pushed, allows for more play in the brakes when compressing the brakes to remove the noodle."
Does that sound familiar to you?
BTW, do you know if the stock rims have a single shallow scored groove on their braking surface?Yes, my rims have that groove. Well the front one does. My rear rim split apart in the middle of my second tour, so I had to have a new one built at a small bike shop in the middle of northern Minnesota. I was quite disappointed to only get about 8000 miles out of that rim. The bike shop guy agreed that it shouldn't have failed that soon, but doubted that Trek would do anything about it.