Blueprint: Trek Boost 148

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1. Hopefully, Super Boost Plus 157 kills the Boost 148 or Boost 148 can stay with trek and all other bike manufacturers use SBP 157.
2. 99,9% of everybody will feel no difference what so ever, except in their wallets.
3. Looks like MTBs finally caught up to the old (mid 80's) tandem spec'd rear hubs... I think I can cold-space my old tandem to fit these hubs :) Thanks MTB bike fashionistas! Anxiously awaiting your swap to Santana's 165mm rear hubsize. So we can get inexpensive replacements there too :)
4. So, certain parts of the industry were doing the Homer Simpson, D'oh, we forgot about the hub.
5. Saying you need BOOST for stiffer wheels then putting 28 spoke wheels on your bikes is BS. Trek did this to save money on wheel builds and warranty claims.
   
   I'll bet the knock block wasn't to make a stiffer bike but to pinch pennies by using less cable housing and eliminating steps in frame production.
6. why can't u make the hub flanges taller so u get same spoke angle as 26/27.5 without fucking with over all width.
7. that's great. but how do I get that shit off?
8. I hate the cycling industry...
9. Because Trek knows there wheels suck, they find it cheaper to widen the chain stay than to make less flexible,better wheels...
10. ok so they are basically admitting wagon wheels flex and they messed up so now have to make another new thing we never wanted to fix the road bike wheels they put on our bikes without asking. . which they then over inflated and decided what we wanted were fat oversize tyres as well....do any of these industry types ride bikes
11. Are there huge differences between using a 150 hub that exists already rather than going 1mm narrower on either side to make a 148?
12. What is next? 152, 155, 160? Present days bike industry sucks!
13. I don't like trek...
14. once you get your head around the fact that no matter how much you spend, in fact the more you spend, all that you are doing is buying the predecessor of the next one. In economics its referred as the propensity to consume and as commerce doesn't have a concentric circular evolution but a expanding spiral anyone who ever tells you their not trying to make your purchase obsolete is just plain lying to you. not a nice thing to know when your a fan of a brand to know you have been suckered but now you know.
15. bullshit
16. Marketing gimmick.   It eventually forces people to go out and buy new standards and be stuck with the obsolete parts people won't want to spent on.   142 to 148 is 3mm on each side and if you understand metrics and some physics you will realize we are talking minimal effects at a  very, very high cost.
17. a buddy just picked one up, i got to ride it. its emediately aparent how much less the wheelset flexes. i have ridden qr to 142 and there is quite a difference than qr, cant really tell with 142 to 148.
    
    my guess is 142 will start to be phased out. but this wont happen for a few years at least. the lack of standards real shunts consumption of this tech.
    
    my guess is there will be a slow creep of these advancements going forward so get used to it.
    
    bikes are no longer bikes, they are now machines with two wheels.
    
18. NO 29" wheel => NO PROBLEMS IN FIRST PLACE!
19. I rode a 50km singletrack trail on Saturday on a Cube Stereo 29er with 142mm wide (X12 Syntace system) at the rear. The bike is carbon but they've stiffened things up by using aluminium rear triangle. I can not see any reason to make the rear stiffer, it simply doesn't require it.
20. Awkward...