I've owned 3 Treks in my lifetime, they were all steel, including the first year they made frames and forks for sale in 1976, when I bought a TX900. So I was enthusiastic about buying from Trek because they were a young startup privately owned company making their frames and forks in America. And then problems started, Trek because a stock owned company and got too big for their britches and moved production of almost all of their bikes to either China, Cambodia, or Taiwan, at that point I decided to stop buying Treks and will never go back to them, I feel they betrayed their workers and America, greed became more important so shareholders can make money, it's the American way, isn't it?