Originally Posted by mlh122
My girlfriend upgraded from a Roadmaster Mt Fury to a Trek 4500 WSD for $249. We thought it was a pretty good upgrade. I wasn't so worried about her on trails as I was when she was on the Roadmaster.
Then we were talking to a guy she works with who's like a an uber elite mtb'er with a $4k bike and chipped teeth. When we told him about it he was like "Uhh Trek? Why'd you go and do that?"
So I was just wondering does this guy just have really extreme opinions? Or are Trek's entry level bikes not that great?
Bottom line (and I'm not sure if anyone posted this before me because I didn't read through all of the posts so, if you did, sorry): Trek's the top bike manufacturer in the World right now and people love to trash the guy on top.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of Trek's FS design but they're still solid bikes and their road bikes are absolutely incredible (probably because they spend the majority of their R&D budget in that arena at the moment).