WI Trip: Visit to Trek Assembly Plant
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WI Trip: Visit to Trek Assembly Plant
The Whitewater assembly plant was a most excellent tour. Below is our guide, Brian (rides for Van Dessel), showing the kids the '08 Madone about to be released the next day at a dealer show. He said they'd sell 20,000 of these. We watched the line assemble bikes and wheels (Bontrager is a Trek name now, as is Lemond, Klein, Gary Fisher and some others). Very cool.
08-14-07, 08:33 PM
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And kids must touch things, so Brian just stepped back.
Ultimately Mitch decided he had to have it.
Ultimately Mitch decided he had to have it.
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I've thought about doing that. Didn't even stop by during the 3 years that my daughter attended UW-Whitewater and I there once or twice every month.
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I forget to mention... We talked to Brian about having a bike worth more than your car. He described his racing buddies as normally showing up at races with $50K worth of racing gear on top of a $2K car.
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I've always wanted to do this tour. Do they offer a discount on a new Madone
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The Whitewater assembly plant was a most excellent tour. Below is our guide, Brian (rides for Van Dessel), showing the kids the '08 Madone about to be released the next day at a dealer show. He said they'd sell 20,000 of these. We watched the line assemble bikes and wheels (Bontrager is a Trek name now, as is Lemond, Klein, Gary Fisher and some others). Very cool.
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Trek offers tours of their facilities in Waterloo and Whitewater, Wisconsin
https://www.trekbikes.com/faq/questions.php?questionid=2
https://www.trekbikes.com/faq/questions.php?questionid=2
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Thanks for the report and photos. Did you have to arrange this tour? If so how did you go about it? I think that such a tour would be really a kick and would like to do it. Maybe we could do a 50+ group tour. Dothey build most of their bikes there or just frames? Any idea how much is done off shore?
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LOL... Last year I toured the Toyota assembly plant in Toyota City (Aichi Prefecture near Nagoya, Japan). I was hoping for one of the 'rejects' as my take home prize, but every car they produced that day was damn near perfect, so no freebees.
