Trek History Book. Anyone Seen It?
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Trek History Book. Anyone Seen It?
I was at the Trek shop, one of really two shops in town and on the way home from the local Indiana Mexican Bakery store, and whilst waiting I spotted this book. I think the early years may be a bit skimpy, and I be newer editions have lots of * * * in the Armstrong era.
I can't really seem to manipulate it so I asked if they could possibly put the derailleur for Samantah Reno back together. I think you need a benchi vice and three hands to do it.
A few years later there an item about Trek introducing a new idea a custom bike where you specify the color of the frame and the components to go on it. I had thought the pretty much ever importer in the US was doing that to some extent
Checkout that "Pie Plate"!
The search is on. You just know some hipste is banging around NYC with one of these turned into a Fixie with a Orgin 8 headset extender so he can spin the bars doing wheelies.
I can't really seem to manipulate it so I asked if they could possibly put the derailleur for Samantah Reno back together. I think you need a benchi vice and three hands to do it.
A few years later there an item about Trek introducing a new idea a custom bike where you specify the color of the frame and the components to go on it. I had thought the pretty much ever importer in the US was doing that to some extent
Checkout that "Pie Plate"!
The search is on. You just know some hipste is banging around NYC with one of these turned into a Fixie with a Orgin 8 headset extender so he can spin the bars doing wheelies.
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This is very interesting Bianchi Girl , does the book mention when they moved the manufacturing from the USA to Taiwan.
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georges1 I didn’t look, I was mostly checking out the beginnings.
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georges1 I didn’t look, I was mostly checking out the beginnings.
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Very cool. Its nice to see some number associated with some bikes/years. I've wondered about what production numbers were like on some of the higher-end Treks per year, like the 7xx and 9xx bikes. Thanks for posting.
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I would imagine it was a gradual process. When they introduced the lower end bikes likt the 4xx and 3xx weren't they sourced overseas? Like everyone else I would guess as manufacturing cost rose in the US they moved "offshore" little by little. Frankly even with Cannondale I never talked up the whole "Made in the US of A" thing because other than the frame everything else came from away.
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I would imagine it was a gradual process. When they introduced the lower end bikes likt the 4xx and 3xx weren't they sourced overseas? Like everyone else I would guess as manufacturing cost rose in the US they moved "offshore" little by little. Frankly even with Cannondale I never talked up the whole "Made in the US of A" thing because other than the frame everything else came from away.
I don't know a ton about it, but there was definitely some crossover. Back in the 80s, according to VintageTrek, they had Japan making some of those rear triangles. I know that the 9xx series mountain bikes (the Single Tracks) were US-made, whereas the 8xx series (Mountain Tracks) were made in Taiwan, I believe. The last Single Track was I think from 1999, although they could have been making aluminum-framed bikes after that still made in USA.
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