Lemond and Trek

I'm a huge Lemond Fan (I finally got to shake his hand and pose for the pic above during the 2006 Interbike show). I'm also a big Trek fan (that was my very first "racing bike" back in the day. LANCE? Hmmm.... Not so much.

So, it kind of made my gut hurt a bit when I read this:

http://www.velonews.com/article/74387/

It feels a wee-bit like Trek is compromising on some core values to me... But that's just my opinion, and I don't have all the facts on the whole deal, eh?

Anyway, I did get a chuckle out of some of the letters on VN.com:

http://www.velonews.com/article/74447

primarily the one about "LT training" near the bottom! ;-)

Trek Tour

Saw this one out there in blogville:

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/08/my-visit-to-tre.html


Trek flew me out to their facility for a job interview a long time ago - didn't get the job, but I did meet some nice folks while there and got a tour that was pretty similar to the one described.


I flew into Madison, WI and made the drive out to Waterloo on that trip - pretty cool area even though I was there during the winter and it was a wee-bit cold!


I've crossed paths with some of the engineers and reps of the Trek crew over the years at various wind tunnels (most recently at lswt.com - Scott, Mark, Brad, and Damon: keep up the good work and I hope you're keeping it fun and the chins up even though the disco boyz have pulled the plug!

Oooh, I wonder if I can get 13-15 cm behind the BB on one of those new Trek TT frames?!

That'd be sweet.