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Anybody know this bike: Trek 540/Klein Navigator
 

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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 2815
Location: hillbilly heaven

6/14/13 6:39 PM

Anybody know this bike: Trek 540/Klein Navigator

One of these has come up locally and I find it interesting. Klein made them in 98 or so with rear facing dropouts, then in 2000 Trek marketed them with normal drops and a 1 inch threaded steerer. Big burly aluminum touring setup. The one locally is the Trek version.

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Nick Payne
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 2625
Location: Canberra, Australia

6/15/13 3:49 PM

I can remember having a look at the Klein version in a shop in the late 90s. As I recall, the dropouts were welded to the inside of the rather fat chainstays, meaning the chainstays were a long way apart at the dropouts, and when I tried to actually ride the thing, my heels hit the chainstays as they came past. Someone who didn't ride heels-in like me might have been ok on it, but I would have needed a set of birthing cranks to ride it.

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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 2815
Location: hillbilly heaven

6/15/13 4:30 PM

The Trek version has regular dropouts, and thats what I'm looking at. I'm afraid the ride may be brutal, but its slack and long, so maybe not.

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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19068
Location: PDX

6/15/13 4:41 PM

ride brutal, I think 30c are rare on those. Some 24mm wide rims and 32-39 tires ought to take the snap out of the truss that it has to be.

If it is 9000 series aluminum, you might well be very surprised. The Q-Carbon with 23c s rode unreal. I don't think the carbon seat stays and fork can do all that. All I know is the bike rode really sweet. Good thing too, not too much room for bigger than 23s on it. The 25s on A23 rims where too close to chance FWIW. Not that it applies to the Nav with lot of clearance. Well I made my point...

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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
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Location: hillbilly heaven

6/15/13 5:39 PM

I think the navigator was a much lower end aluminum. They blew them out at the end for 3-400 for a frameset.

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