Budget-friendly Schwinns were easily available, but if you wanted performance and refinement, European and Japanese brands were the only option. Unfortunately, the shops failed and closed in the fall of 1975.Īt the time, America wasn’t known for producing high-end bikes. Burke’s vision was to set up a nationwide chain of bicycle stores in college towns.
Together, they bought a bike store in Madison, Wisconsin named Stella Bicycle Shop and later opened a second location in Champaign, Illinois. A businessman always looking for new opportunities, Burke was convinced by Hogg to pursue his interest in bicycles. Trek’s founders, Richard (Dick) Burke and Bevil Hogg, met by chance on a plane ride. Trek simply makes too many bikes to go over all of them!) Find out which riders fit with each bike model so you can better understand Trek’s line-up and make an informed decision when buying your next bike.īevil Hogg and Dick Burke with an early Trek. (Time trial, triathlon, electric, urban, and sub-$1,000 bikes are omitted. It will cover Trek’s history, innovative technologies, model naming system, and its most popular road, gravel, and mountain bike models. This overview is your guide to all things Trek. But how do you know which Trek bike is right for you? Trek’s huge catalog includes everything from race-ready road bikes, to trail-shredding mountain bikes, to reliable cruisers for your daily commute. It has supported some of the world’s top racers on their path to glory and introduced innovative bike technologies that have had a huge impact on modern cycling. Over the last 40 years, the little company from Waterloo, Wisconsin grew into one of the biggest manufacturers in the world, making more than a million bikes per year. Their one goal was to prove an American brand was capable of producing high-end, high-performance bicycles capable of competing with the best European and Japanese bikes. To them, it called forth the spirit of adventure and the promise of great things beyond the horizon. Hills that once would have been quite an imposition were ridden up at a decent pace because I'm starting to develop ROCKET LEGS.The founders of Trek Bicycle believed there was special power in the name Trek. Went all the way out to Morgan Hill, past two reservoirs and found out why people aren't kidding about the wicked headwind in Morgan Hill. I did almost 60 miles of cycling yesterday. It's really just a RitaPita tormenting zone. In case you were wondering, I made up the part about Captain Picard. And on the other side? A picture of Captain Picard with a frame made out of earl gray teabags. On one side of the bedroom is Frank's hockey stick shrine, where he is able to focus his hockey-fighting energy before a game by screaming "KILLLLL!!!!!" on the top of his lungs in front of. What she's not comfortable revealing, but *I* will tell you anyways is that she's got some major Captain Picard lust issues. That, if you imagine where the pips would be and the communicator, looks awfully Star Trek. So, even though I could get a rise out of *her* by telling her she should wear a one-piece cyclocross outfit because she's always biking in skirts, Reese decides that I ought to complete my spandex wardrobe.
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