Originally Posted by
cb400bill
Spring can't get here quick enough.
...short sleeves and bib shorts on the bike ride today, here in Sacramento.
I would have ridden this Trek, (one of the last built in America,) but there's still some puddles, so I went with fenders.
Trek has gone through a lot of iterations over the years. Started out as a source for American built quality frames, at affordable prices. Was finally forced to offshore more and more production, to remain competitive in sales. Of all the Trek bashing I hear lately, it has to do with their current expansion into local markets by buying local bike shops and converting them to less well stocked, and less generally helpful, Trek stores.
That's what happened here in Sacramento. But I didn't work there when it was City Bicycle, and I don't work there now that it's Trek. It's not all that useful to me, personally.
I have one of their old hand brazed Columbus frames that I repainted/restored, and am looking forward to putting it back together. Trek was once a shining example of what American bike manufacturing could do.
