Trek Product Tour: 2009 Urban Series

Watch a quick tour of Trek's 2009 Urban bike series, including our Soho, District, Portland, Allant and Valencia models. For more information visit http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/story/urban/

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Sports

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• Trek
• Bicycles
• Bike
• Urban
• Soho
• District
• FX
• Portland
• Allant
• Valencia

[mondorescue]

@vlandre Odd you say that internal gear hubs aren't durable. Does that mean the millions of Dutch bicycles in the Netherlands are with a broken gear hub? My Dutch bike is about 10 years old and still has the same old internal gear hub since it was assembled. My bike got no TLC during those 10 years and everything still works! OK, it makes a bit of rattling noise but it still shifts fine.

[ampdavolts]

@vlandre , they've only been making IGH hubs for...about 109 years now. Many are more durable than the bikes they are put on. Look up Sturmey-Archer? Don't talk nonsense, and derailleurs need more than "some oil" once in a while. IGH hubs are better than ever. And I'm just so "over" 27 speed nonsense for my riding. I can do with a bulletproof Nexus Inter 3. Light and cheap and quiet and efficient.

[ampdavolts]

I live in Miami too. I love to ride my Trek Lime (auto shifting IGH 3 spd cruiser) in the rain. It just works. Fenders make rain-riding fun, if the rain is warm. See my ride to the park? I'm a geezer, but still a kid. ty.

[peter3337]

@mondorescue i hate gear hubs xD

[agustgus11]

He needs a haircut!

[vlandre]

I would say, NEVER, NEVER buy an internal gear hub. It's just a commercial scheme. They break after one year or two and then you have to buy a brand new bike, since replacing the hub is too expensive to consider in the long term. Besides that you lose close to 8% power with an internal gear hub. They say it's maintanance free, but that's just crap, is it that hard to put some oil on the derailer once in a while?

[yaniel87]

i live in miami, fl... i'm looking out my window and its raining, just like it has almost every afternoon for the past 2 months. and just like it will continue to do through most of the summer and "fall." miami is not what you see on TV, almost every single one of my rides gets cut short due to rain if i go out in the afternoon.

[kotapaka]

when will people learn that maintenance depends on conditions where you ride it. If you ride it in the UK then get an internal hub gears cause it rains like hell. If you ride it in Miami, Florida then get a derailleur bike cause you just have to oil it twice a year cause there is no rain to remove the oil you've put.

[dinkyfriend]

Buy the Specialized Langster. For around 700$ you get a lot of bike and very little maintenance.