Any experience on Trek 8000 aluminum?

[Nader]

would be greatly appreciated for a couple of experiences and pics.

Are the aluminum tubes really glued?

 

[FluffyChicken]

would be greatly appreciated for a couple of experiences and pics.

Are the aluminum tubes really glued?

Which year, I have a 1989 7000 in the shed well a frame anyway.
yes they where bonded, pop to the vintage trek site and go to the new collection of catalogues and you'll have the very detailed tech info.

 

[Nader]

Cheers mate ...very nice site.

it's about a Trek 8000 but I do not know what year it is.

 

[feetabix]

i owned a '91 8000 for three years......great bike until i was ran over on it on the way home from work and the frame was snapped in two.....the lugs survived however!.....

 

[Loki]

I had a 93 8000. Trek had dialed the geometry by then with a 1 1/8 HT and it rode nice with a Marzocchi Z2 I added. If it was a size bigger I would still own it. The stock showa forks were crap but rigid was also a option.

 

[Chickenball]

Nader most of the 8000 were bonded. I think when you jumped from 7000 to 8000 it was mostly componentry that separated the models. very similar to the 8700s and 8900s. Those Showa forks are built like brick-shithouses!! They were tanks and I still have 2 sets I am running on 2 treks, although technology has caught up to them.

 

[Nader]

many thanks to all. I now got a lot of information from the TREK catalog.
Cheers fellas.

 

[Rich]

I had a steel 970 and 8500 in 1991, great bikes, the 970 was stolen and I had the 8500 right upto 2005 until the chain stay developed a crack

 

[velomaniac]

I had a 8500, beautiful thing it was and yes the tubes were bonded, Went to its grave after brake stud snapped off and a bit of ominous creaking