What to do with weird spec'd Trek Checkpoint?
Hi all,
For years I've owned a 2018 ALR5 checkpoint that I never use because I don't like riding it. Now i would like to rebuild it to my liking but am unsure what to do.
A short recap on how it ended up this way.
In 2016 I bought a new Trek 520 for commuting to work. After a couple of months my seat tube cracked around the slit on the back. I got a new frame from Trek so only an inconvenience of missing the bike for a couple of weeks. Then it happened on the two framesets after that. Because of this issue and the fact that the framesets in my size (XL) were the same over the years i declined a fourth frameset and demanded my money back or a fitting resolution.
My LBS and Trek finally worked out that I would get the new and upcoming gravelbike the Checkpoint ALR5.
What was not discussed was that I would only get the frameset and not a whole complete bike wich I also had to pay the bike shop to make the parts from the 520 fit on the Checkpoint.
Now I own a Checkpoint with with a 3x9 Alivio/deore groupset with bar end shifters on a , for my liking, a way to deep of a drop handlebar.
I would like to ride the bike again since I now moved somewhere with a lot of gravel roads and some single track.
I liked riding on my girlfriends bike with shimano 105 with drifters but I am also open to something like Grevenalle's shifters and maybe go 1x.
I'd preferably not spent $1000 on a new groupset.
What would you recommend that I do?