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TREK!...that faceless, capitalist, American... (8 posts)
|  TREK!...that faceless, capitalist, American... | noslogan
Aug 6, 2002 5:51 PM | | corporation. Adamn fine company ta boot. What are they thinking? They have 2 or 3 Trek stores in San Diego now with way too much square footage and hardly enough merchandise sitting on it. Are they making that much money, that they can have such big stores? They do have pretty much the whole line of Trek, Fisher and LeMond and gear as well. Other mom and pop shops are doin' OK, so far. And with 7? Performi in town and a SuperGo, mom and pop might have trouble.
And then there is the Nike/Trek thing.
I do own a brand under the Trek umbrella and love it. |
| My opinion... | Adam
Aug 6, 2002 7:45 PM | | I've never really been a big fan of trek myself. I personally perfer the smaller companines that care about the customer instead of thiking of them as a bar on a chart in a fancy boardroom. For example seven cycles and the other sub 500 frames a year companies. I enjoy having something not to many other people have, and I'm not about to jump onto the trek monopoly bandwagon any time soon.
Say what you want but that's just my opinion.
-Adam-
ride on! |
| True, but | TomM
Aug 7, 2002 12:49 PM | | At lower price points, Trek and it's brandnames destroy the competition because of it's girth. That means that they are in line to get tons of business if the sport expands again. I own 2 mountain bikes, a Trek and a Gary Fisher, and although I don't particularly love the companies, they are great bikes, and our local bike shop only carries the Trek brandnames and Cannondales. Sub 500 frame a year companies cater to only the elite, or the extremely rich. They will need to change their gameplan to compete with the giants.
Tom
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| GO RM! | Pants?
Aug 7, 2002 11:42 AM | | Go for Rocky Mountain! Canadian stuff rocks, especially the bikes. They really back the products up, and represent some real quality in the industry. |
| what about Giant? | Aesop Rock
Aug 7, 2002 1:04 PM | | Trek is a great company. They are way big, and yes teaming up with Nike. But they offer a lot of things that a small company cannot. I won't list them because you all know what I mean. I will say that they sponsored our collegiate bike team when no small companie would. This gave tons of kids the opportunity to ride a nicer bike then they would have ever been able to afford and therefore fall in love with the sport. Right now I have a Gunnar, but I do miss my Klein. They are cool people, but anyway why doesn't anyone ever say anything about Giant. They are just as big as Trek but not making the right moves if you ask me. |
| Trek is really a great American success story... | jcw
Aug 7, 2002 1:44 PM | | from a small town in Wisconsin to #1 in the industry in 25 years, pretty impressive. Trek has had a great game plan, take care of your dealers and customers and put out a quality product at a competitive price. Sounds easy, but many companies fall way short in one (or all) of these areas. Say what you will about Trek, but all but their low end bikes are still handmade in Wisconsin, and they offer customer service that is second to none. Just last week we had a customer that had lost the pivot bolt for the folding arm of her kids Trail-a-bike. The folks at trek couldn't locate a replacement part, so they just sent a new Trail-a-bike no charge. And we see stuff like that all the time. It makes it so much easier to sell them when you know that the company is really going to stand behind it's products. |
| What about Specialized? nm | Lopsided Mind
Aug 7, 2002 3:18 PM | | nm |
| What about it? | Philo Beddoe
Aug 8, 2002 7:39 PM | | They make kick ass bikes. Better than Trek IMHO. Always good value and great bang for your buck. |
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