Originally Posted by
BrooklynBikeGir
I have gone on the longest wild goose chase trying to find out what happened to Dick. I got in touch with a current Trek employee in Madison who is friends with Mike Appel. He asked Mike if he knew where Dick was and said he said he hasn't seen or heard from him since the early 80s. I think he left Trek around then and seems to have vanished into thin air. Did you know him? Can you tell me anything else about him?
He was the Trek engineer when I worked there in the late '70s. I never socialized with him, and we had a somewhat prickly relationship, probably because I was an obnoxious teenager at the time. If you look at the Trek Brochures on the vintage Trek site, there is a fairly large picture of Dick leaning on some machinery standing next to Mike Appel. They usually didn't look that serious. They finally stopped using that picture in 1982