Originally Posted by
AdventureManCO
I'd be curious to hear
JohnDThompson 's take on this, since I think he was there around that time. I'm just sad my new-to-me '83 600 has a one piece headtube/lug tamping in place of a good ol' fashioned lug'd n' braze'd headtube
Well he was at ground zero and was likely all in, wisely so.
Treks invasion of PDX was largely the work of the family that brought them in and they were all in, really put in the work so it paid off big.
Good folks in a very affluent area that was ripe for the transition, plenty of families needing lots of bikes and well able to buy them so trendy before it was trendy.
Like I said, nothing really against the bikes, they were good, and not cheap, again, trendy.
