Who will win?? A $200 Kent Trouvaille mountain bike from Walmart, or a $600 Trek Marlin 5 Gen 2 from a local bike shop? The Trouvaille has a surprising amount of quality parts on it like a 1×9 microshift drivetrain, tapered head tube, internal dropper post routing, decent suspension fork with a lockout, and much more!
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trek doesn’t even have maxxis
Marlins are overpriced Bike Shop jewelry to fool newbies into buying a "nice bike", only to realize that you'd spend as much to upgrade it into a CAPABLE mountain bike, as just buying a whole nother new bike, which they hope you'll also buy from them 💯 Save a few hundred more and buy a real bike 👍
What’s the name of the trek bike?
Both of these bikes are budget bikes. One is just a known quality you can trust. If you go with a Trek you have to get out of Marlins and hop into Roscoe hardtails or into a dual suspension frame for comparisons to matter.
Both suck
I would still take the trek
Trek bikes are for homosexuals
Disc brakes are for homosexuals I prefer cantilever
600$ just pay for the name. Not for the specs
these are not $200.
I don't think hydralic brakes are that much better than mech disk brakes. If you have mechs dialed in with the right pads, they will stop you quick
Thats never been 200 bucks
I will stick with my medium size 27.5 trek roscoe 8 bought in 2019 .it's 6.yrs old had a few nasty wash outs but never broke a damn thing . Just replaced chains and disk brake pads .and yes the seat is a dropper ……worth every penny. Dumped the 8 by 2 "maxis for 6 by 2 " maxis ardent race tires.she never let me down and sure she never will
I hate to say but for $200 bucks I will go with $200 chinamart beater
The drive train killed that deal
Bro longevity is most definitely going to trek Nishiki was and I repeat back in the 90s was a decent bike now it’s a department store bike.You can run your lil test anyone with common mtb knowledge knows the trek will smoke this in the right riders hands.I love you guy think y’all know it all
Of course TREK is way better o would thy
Id go with what i can afford at the time. But im.heavy set so need to find a frame that can support my ass 😂
Hydralic Braking and Airsuspentions are Juicero style Overengineering of Biking
My 400 dollar Rockrider XC 403 is better than the trek it has shimano Alivio 2×9 drivetrain with shimano hubs and shimano mt 200 hydraulic brakes with Sr Suntour XCM 120mm Suspension
pretty dumb video. what is really important is how does the bike hold up over time and riding. NOT leaning against a wall.
3×7 is superior
Yes, the small difference is that the one from Walmart will fold in half as soon as you make your first jump
I have a cannondale trail 4 se best bike for what I want and need.
So the Walmart bike is probably best for 95% of people who are just going to be riding the bike on the ground and not trying to fly through the air with it
My mtb is just 200$ but no dropper routinf 🙁
I don't even know what he's saying.
200 $? Where ? so i can get 5 of those bikes 😂
How the hell is that 200$? In canada, the piece of trash bike with v-breaks will cost like 400$