What's going on guys? Today we're checking out a bike long awaited by a lot of people. This is the Trek Rosco 9. Now they are calling it the 2023 model. It's the same as the 2022 that kind of blending away from the years model years as they normally did it and kind of going into a generational flow just with the supply chain. It's hard to get things out on a regular occasion. So now we are looking at what they call the 2023 Rosco 9. This would be Gen 1 because it's the first of its series. Great looking bike color scheme looks great. There is an additional color coming. I have heard for the 2023 season different than this one and what had been released some regions. So keep an eye out for that. Overall though, what a bike. Seeing one in person instead of just reading the specs really changes maybe my opinion a little bit on it at first. Just unsure of whether it's worth the price tag. You know this is the same price essentially as a fuel EX5 and that is actually a little bit cheaper than this one. But this has so much better of a perspic. It's kind of ridiculous. We're going to do a quick one so round it and tell you about it right now. So the 2023 Trek Rosco 9 has not changed since 2022. No changes, no anything. So this is going to be easy for all you people who have seen those ones before. But if you haven't, let's go over why this is such an interesting and impressive bike and Trek lineup. Starting with the classic stuff like tyres, everything nowadays from Trek is shipping out with a pair of bond triggets if possible unless they don't have enough. This one's got those XR4 29 inch 2.5 inch wide tyres. So these are a big beefy tyre setup. Going to perform really well. Bunch of it doesn't do a front and rear separate. So you get this nice fast rolling tyre all around and more than enough traction for pretty much everyone anywhere if they were questioning whether that wasn't good enough for them. The wheels are paired with the LINE 30's so they're a very lightweight, high contact wheel especially in the rear. You get lots of control and feel through that. So you'll be able to have that really fast rapid feel to the engagement of the pedals essentially. Up front is where it starts some of the more impressive features. The tyres are pretty basic, you know, kind of ready to go to this ready. But up front we've got a Fox 36. This is pretty impressive. This is more impressive than what's on the current fuel X's in the aluminum range altogether essentially. It's lightweight. It's got 140 miles of travel. It's going to perform so well. Lots of adjustment. The top compression control is firm. You can really get it and set it where you need it. It's going to be easier on the trail to hit where you need on the fly. Obviously it's air pressurized so you're able to pump that up for how you need it instead of anyone else and get the most performance out of this fork. Very good fork on this. You're going to have a lot of performance. Obviously no rear suspension. This is the Rosco lineup, not the fuel X. Although this is more expensive than the fuel X5. This is a hardtail bike. So it goes simply straight through that aluminum frame, nice progressive geometry to the drivetrain, which they've paced with another impressive feature, which is the XT drivetrain combination with the SLX. So it is a bit of both. The derailleur is an XT. So you get fast wrapper response times with that. The shifting unit up front is the SLX. So you get a lot of the features from the XT, the texturized grip, but it's not rubberized. The fast response, but it is still a softer feel to it. It's not as snappy and rapid feeling as the true XT, but it's very close, like very, very close. Can't knock it too much. Shifting going to be a breeze. You can have no worries about this. And if you really wanted to upgrade the shifted to an XT, you can have a really good part, which really isn't that necessary. This does have the 52 tooth chain rings on the back. So you will climb absolutely everything with this with that. You're able to pair it with a decent size front chain ring. And that's on the E-13 crank with built-in washes. So these are actually fixed to the crank itself. You'll never need to worry about forgetting them. If you're ever changing pedals lots and never needing to worry about damage to the cranks from over tightening those pedals on and forgetting the washes. So that is a good, good feature there. Moving on to the brakes. This is another impressive, very impressive feature. I have a few lex 8 and it does not even have these brake levels. So this has a higher brake lever set and brake parts set than the fuel EXA. So we're about $50 more than a fuel EX5. We've got significantly better front fork, same shifting setup, essentially as a fuel EXA and better brakes than a fuel EXA. This is a very well specced bike. Those brakes have a lot of stopping power to you. Not going to have any issues in that factor in any which way. You jump over. It's got the standard bond trigger drop of post lever. Basic works well. It's fairly short throw. So I'm never too angry with it. It doesn't have any texture on the thumb, which would be kind of nice, but it's not critical. I've never slipped off wondering, ah, I can't put the post down, but it's a very basic looking post control lever, but it works well. The post itself is going to be reliable. It doesn't wobble too much. It controls itself very fast, release up and then easy, but firm to go down. It doesn't feel flimsy. Oh, lightweight at all. They do have the bond trigger line 35 slight raised post on it. So this is going to give you this nice comfortable control position, especially with how short those stems are getting. You're able to get really got weight over the front wheel and hammer those corners really well. It's going to be an easy to ride bike. And I think without that rear suspension, you're going to be able to throw that backhand around so nicely that you'll be able to throw and hammer corners really fast, especially even in comparison to a few of the X, which will absorb that you're just going to be able to throw it where you want with very little lag in response time. A lower end part spec fuel the X, for example, would have that delay of how efficient that shock is actually working. The Roscoe 9 is definitely a good looking bike. It's definitely worth it dollar wise for the price, but it is hard to say whether it's worth it to spend more on a hard tail than it would be a full suspension. A lot of people are purchasing full suspension purely for the comfort of it. Purely for the enjoyment of the ride. The Roscoe 9 gets you all the high end features you probably ever wanted in a bike, but cuts that price from $4800 now or $5,000 kind of rough price range way down. You're taking $1500 off it. And it makes it a very attainable bike, very high powered bike, but are people going to miss the full suspension? I'm not 100% sure. If you climb in the land up, no, if you're coming from a Trek Marlin or similar hard tail, you are not going to miss the full suspension. You won't want you missing with a dropper post. You're not needing it as much as you maybe once were because you're on and off the seat more often now than when the were no dropper post. You really appreciate that full suspension. If you go from a full suspension to this, that's going to be the tricky one. Should you go fully X5 and then Roscoe 9 such a better price back, but lack of risk suspension. Would you miss it? God, I wish I had an answer that I wish I could take this one, but it's the only one got so I can't to the trails and actually slam it around and see what it's like. It's going to be very responsive. It's going to be very fast. It's going to be a cool, gravely grinded bike, but easy in the trails. I really think all you're going to miss is a small amount of comfort. I don't think you'll miss any performance at this price range. And obviously proven by the rest of our respect, you're actually getting put better performance out of this than almost up to a few. The X8, which is a huge price savings for comfort. Could we just put a comfy seat on there? Would you even notice that much sudden trails? Yes, most of them probably not. I like this bike. It's a hell of a bike. I think it's going to do really well. The hardest part is for them in supply. They are like the slowest arrival bikes. This is the first one we've had since our announcement in 2021 and more towards a 2022 end of season. So it's going to still be interesting where this bike goes. And our people are going to buy is a trail of shredder who slams trails and hits jumps really going to lean for this over something with suspension in the rear. Because a race of sure isn't going to choose this one. They'll still stick with that X caliber series, which is cheaper than this. And comes with a heck of a parts back as well. Lot of these same features actually. So it's definitely hard to say what's worth the best value for money. This has a place. This definitely should exist. But is it only for people going from a track Marlin or entry level Roscoe up? Or can this take some people from those entry level trail bikes with rear suspension and turn them into shredding trail machines because the efficiencies you'll get and the controllability you'll have with a bike like this. Maybe one day we'll get to ride it, comment, track to try and send me product so I can test these things for real instead of just getting demos and all that kind of stuff. Otherwise, let me know if you have any questions. I'll try and answer them. It's a great looking bike. If you're worried you might not want this bike, I don't think you have to be. It's well worth it. It is well worth every penny. All right, guys. Good luck. Thanks.