Trek Fuel 98

[MotorsportTom]

Please be gentle I don't venture to these parts often, but I've agreed to buy the bike in the title.

Have been told by the seller it's a 2007 model but other than looking and thinking "ooh that's fancy for not much money" I don't really know what I'm looking at.

Can anyone shed any light on a) what I'm buying b) anything in particular to look out for on them and c) whether £350 is a good deal for it. I mean it seems it. Does it seem it?

And of course a thread wouldn't be a decent thread without a couple of pictures.





All help gratefully received, and all flaming for being a moron with no idea about bicycles anymore will be accepted.

[MotorsportTom]

Thanks for all the info folks.

From the link it does indeed look like an 03-04 bike... hmm.

I've agreed to buy it from a work colleague but the only thing that made me think it was worth it is that the CEO (huge cycling nut) was willing to snap his hand off for £350 but then offered it to me when I said I didn't have a bike and wanted one, and he was only buying it to save wrecking his nice one.

It apparently needs forks and shock servicing (re-gassing??) but a guy here used to service suspension so I have no problems with that.

Still unsure whether to go for it or not!