oh man this thing's so much fun on bike park trails
nice hey everyone welcome back to the channel it's an awesome day
why because it's new bike day that's why
hey pup
is this my new bike kevin? this is your new bike oh
sick
thank you very much thank you
hey everyone welcome back to the channel I'm Jonathan with project northeast I'm up here
at beautiful highland mountain bike park on a wednesday afternoon getting some park laps in
in this video i wanted to take a look at a 120 millimeter quiver killer bike
the 2022 trek top fuel and you may have seen the other review video that
me and live free and shred did on the initial impressions of this bike we did a review on the
top fuel 8 xt and i'll leave the flag at the top you can go check that out for our initial
impressions but as soon as i tried that bike i knew it was what i wanted as a trail bike so
stay tuned to the end of the video i'm going to do a few laps here and i'm gonna show you
how this bike can be a quiver killer for you um i know it kinda is for me except unless i was racing
enduro or something like that but we're gonna go and do a few laps here we're gonna do like a blue
trail flow trail we'll do a black technical trail and then we'll do maybe a jump trail or something
like that if we have time but stay tuned to the end of the video because you'll see some
you know unique things that i did to my top fuel to make it to what i would think of as
the ultimate trail bike it does everything i wanted to do and the modifications i did to it
are so good i can't even tell you we'll just have to let it translate on the trail
and uh it's something that i don't think you would see a lot of people doing I
know jc trails did a little bit of the same modification But I went a little step further
not outside the realm of you know outside the warranty or anything like that everything's
approved what I did to the bike but man it is good so let's get out there and check it out
all right first trail we're gonna head in on uh happy hour a little bit of tech up front here
a little bit of flow
so what i wanted to show with this bike is just
how versatile it is with the changes i've made
and i'll go over the changes i made
Sort of do like a bike check type of video
at the end to show you exactly what i did but man for a 120 mil bike this thing absolutely shreds
would i race enduro on it? no i would not but
would i bring it to the bike park yes absolutely Would i use it as a park bike only?
no but you know what as inflation rises gas gets more expensive
i can see a lot of people kind of on a budget saying you know
i can't afford two bikes but i want a trail bike
i want a fast bike
but i also want to go to the bike park occasionally
this bike could be it
and
swap wheel sets or something like that swap tires and you could probably run a marathon
xc race on this type of bike too i don't think it's going to be necessarily a
cross-country race bike but it could definitely do the marathon category and hold its own
but man this thing's so much fun on bike park trails
just to be able to have fun on it's so light and whippy
all right that's off one let's check something else out
let's head into check out more of a tech trail go into Shileleigh right here
little muddy
let's head over to some jumps maybe a black diamond jump trail hellion
this thing feels so light in the air i want to be careful because I'm
used to having a heavy bike in the air so this thing's just like wow send you to the moon
it's definitely not as confidence inspiring as a slash
on this stuff but it does pretty well
whew
oh way over shot i gotta slow down
nice
all right so i just got done riding at highland mountain bike park with my brand new 2022 trek
top view and why i labeled this video as the 120 millimeter quiver killer is because i
made some certain changes to mine that i think makes it even more worthy of a quiver killer
if you're not enduro racing and you're not going out there for podiums and stuff like that
and you just want to come to the bike park occasionally ride some blue square trails you
know maybe the occasional black diamond or if you want to do some jumps um like hellion or something
like that and then but you want a really snappy fast trail bike that could kind of do it all
then this is what i've done to my top fuel to make it more of a downhillers cross-country bike
so the first thing i did was add 130 millimeter fork which if you look at the website on trek's
website the 9.9 xtr comes with 130 millimeter factory 34 fork so it is made for it it
slackens the geometry out to about 65.5 degrees which for a trail bike nowadays it just feels
really good it doesn't have that big bike feel though because of the geometry you still feel like
you're kind of over the front tire versus you know an enduro style bike with slack relaxed geometry
where you feel like you're sitting backwards you know i mean the wheel flopping around it doesn't
feel like that at all and then the other thing that i did custom was i contacted
alex mcandrew from green mountain protune and i got a custom float x or i got a stock float
x which only comes in a couple different sizes it comes in a 185 by 55 and 185 by 52 and a half
well according to trek and tech support going back and forth with them they only recommend
a 50 millimeter stroke so with that being said I talked to alex at green mountain protune he
said no problem a full damper service is required to get in there and limit the stroke down to 50
millimeters um and he did it i thought at first it was going to cost a lot of money but it was
literally about 55 dollars with shipping and he didn't give me a deal i just paid whatever he
charged me but i guess the new float x is a lot easier to service than the old dpx2
so it's about half the cost to you know work on this shock so long story short i have a piggyback
floatx shock on here custom stroked at 185 you know length by 50 millimeter stroke and let
me tell you i haven't gotten this thing dialed quite yet but it totally balances out the bike
with the fox 34 you know 34 factory grip 2 damper on the front and 130
it felt plush in the front pretty xc harsh in the back with a dps shock but as soon as i put
this on there it kind of leveled out the bike to where the suspension felt even going front to back
and then i didn't skimp on the wheels you know i just have my old tr37s from nobl off of my
slash from last year i put these on here they're not that much heavier than like uh you know
i didn't really feel like sacrificing you know 200 grams of weight and sacrifice the durability
if i'm gonna be sending this bike off big jumps and stuff like that but so far this bike has done
everything i've wanted it to um i still don't think it's on par with something like the new
spectral like canyon spectral you know 125 because that bike just looks like a bruiser and i think
it's going to be kind of like almost a mini downhill bike kind of in line with like the fuel
ex but those are the few changes i did with this bike that i think could be your one bike you could
even slap a 36 on the front make it even more of a burly trail bike um run the piggyback shock and
man it's so capable i've got kind of middle of the road tread on here i've just got the victoria
agarro's i got a 2.6 in the front 2.4 in the rear are 2.35 but those are kind of good middle
of the road fast rolling enduro tires they're still durable 900 grams they're not a two-ply
but so far they've been really good and reliable i've thought about putting a
bigger tire on like the martello or mazza but just feels like i would remove the fast rolling
characteristics of the bike if i did that the other thing great like all the treks now i mean
you take off the bottle cage and storage and i've got
a full tube co2 and two tire levers stored in there that i never have to touch or worry about
that are always there whether i'm shredding the park or going on a trail ride so that's it that's
the end of the video i just wanted to do a quick bike check on that and also go over some settings
and the things that i've done to change the bike make it a little bit more quiver killer
and also go over you know we rode some tech we rode some flow we rode some black diamond jumps
i haven't found anything it doesn't do obviously you're not going to charge as fast as you would on
a slash or even a fuel ex but this thing will get you to the top of the mountain minutes faster so
that's kind of what you're looking for then it's a good option have i found the perfect
bike for me yet of what i'm looking for? this is dang close but i keep getting further and further
and further into the trail bike category because i used to race cross country i still want something
that pedals extremely fast but i find myself not wanting to sacrifice any downhill performance
anymore because i can just rail everything so hard with my slash but who knows what's next
maybe it's a canyon maybe it's the new spectral 125 that thing looks really sick or maybe it's
something different i've had an evil following first version that was good maybe that's what
i'm looking for but it didn't pedal as good as this so maybe i just got to dial the suspension
in a little bit more and maybe then it'll be perfect but i love trying new bikes see you in
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