I think my new bike may actually be a factory second.

It is the only trek I've seen (not that I've seen that many) that only had the holder for one water bottle. All the others have the holes for 2 water bottle holders.

I first noticed when I put in my bottle that it seemed much lower from the top-post than usual. Later I got to thinking about it, and noticed the missing holder.

Looking at the Trek site confirmed there should have been two.

I'm contacting LBS tomorrow, but was just curious if anyone had seen anything like this before?

The first image is a current Trek 7.5 fx (borrowed for illustrative purposes).



The second image is my bike. Notice where the bottle bracket is mounted in relation to the K in Trek. It's much lower on my bike.



The full-size version of a photo of the bike will reveal the missing pieces:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glowroc...n/photostream/