Trek 5200 ?

gigemaggs99 said:

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Can anyone tell me if there is a difference besides years and use in a Trek 5200 OCLV Carbon Fiber frame from 1999 to 2004? Is this the same frame? I have seen they have different color schemes but are the frames the same?
I am looking for a used bike, if there is no difference in frames then I would like to settle on an older model with better components. Any insite on this will help me.

Thank you!

Yeah, the 99 used a 1" threaded fork, and the latest ones use 11/8" threadless. You don't get better components by going older, as they all used ultegra. There was a 99 5000 model that used lesser components,but it was dropped in 2000 and resurected in late o4.

gigemaggs99 said:

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Can anyone tell me if there is a difference besides years and use in a Trek 5200 OCLV Carbon Fiber frame from 1999 to 2004? Is this the same frame? I have seen they have different color schemes but are the frames the same?
I am looking for a used bike, if there is no difference in frames then I would like to settle on an older model with better components. Any insite on this will help me.

Thank you!

In 2001, the frame changed materials from OCLV 150 to OCLV 120 carbon fiber. The number refers to the grams of carbon in one square meter of the sheet that the tubing's made of, if I understand it correctly. So you'd think that the new frame might considerably lighter than the older one, but that's not the case, because the carbon fiber is only one component in the frame, the other being the epoxy resin that binds everything together. Thus the actual weight difference between the two is very, very small (on the order of a couple of ounces).