Why do some dislike Trek bicycles / corporation?
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If you're comment is actually intended to be taken seriously, am I to assume you never tighten any bolts on your bike(s) for any reason other than faulty design or improper installation? Good luck with that.
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You're kidding, right? It's a bottle cage bolt, not aerospace equipment. Road vibration can (and does) cause bolts to come loose over time. General stress from regular use is also a contributing factor.
If you're comment is actually intended to be taken seriously, am I to assume you never tighten any bolts on your bike(s) for any reason other than faulty design or improper installation? Good luck with that.
If you're comment is actually intended to be taken seriously, am I to assume you never tighten any bolts on your bike(s) for any reason other than faulty design or improper installation? Good luck with that.
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I work in the Farm Machinery space. Bolts don't come loose on our stuff, because we engineer and test them to withstand the level of vibration that they will encounter in normal service, with a very healthy margin. And if they come loose in the test lab, my team has to fix it in software...
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I'm torn on that mess... like I said above, my Trek sits right next to my Lemond...
Morals, ethics, business - billions in sales (Trek driven sales from Lance) vs 10's of millions (sales of Lemond bikes)... Lemond said what he believed, unsubstantiated, unproven at the time. His words could cause potential huge losses to his parent company - way more than he ever made for them, way more than he probably would ever make for them. That was a flat business decision - and probably an easy one for any business manager to make.
Morals, ethics, business - billions in sales (Trek driven sales from Lance) vs 10's of millions (sales of Lemond bikes)... Lemond said what he believed, unsubstantiated, unproven at the time. His words could cause potential huge losses to his parent company - way more than he ever made for them, way more than he probably would ever make for them. That was a flat business decision - and probably an easy one for any business manager to make.
Then there is Specialized which sued a small LBS in Canada because it called itself the Roubaix bike shop. They claimed the shop used their name without permission. So, they created the name Roubaix? Oh, wait.....
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You're kidding, right? It's a bottle cage bolt, not aerospace equipment. Road vibration can (and does) cause bolts to come loose over time. General stress from regular use is also a contributing factor.
If you're comment is actually intended to be taken seriously, am I to assume you never tighten any bolts on your bike(s) for any reason other than faulty design or improper installation? Good luck with that.
If you're comment is actually intended to be taken seriously, am I to assume you never tighten any bolts on your bike(s) for any reason other than faulty design or improper installation? Good luck with that.
And no, I don't have to periodically go over my bike tightening bolts, because they were installed correctly. I know they were installed correctly, because I installed them.
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I work in the Farm Machinery space. Bolts don't come loose on our stuff, because we engineer and test them to withstand the level of vibration that they will encounter in normal service, with a very healthy margin. And if they come loose in the test lab, my team has to fix it in software...
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Ummmmm ... you're dreaming. USADA (The United States Anti-Doping Agency) banned Armstrong from competition and stripped him of his titles. The UCI accepted their decision.
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You’re obviously determined to make me go to my desktop computer and post the photo showing that a front rack bolt not only came loose but fell out somewhere along a hilly, rough stretch of road in MT. I didn’t even know it until we got to camp a couple of miles after the photo was taken. I had installed the rack after picking up the shipped bike from a LBS in Missoula. I was sitting under a bridge to keep out of the rain and worked in a hurry. Bolt fell out on the 5th day of the tour. I’ve never made that mistake again. I could have gotten seriously messed up.
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You’re obviously determined to make me go to my desktop computer and post the photo showing that a front rack bolt not only came loose but fell out somewhere along a hilly, rough stretch of road in MT. I didn’t even know it until we got to camp a couple of miles after the photo was taken. I had installed the rack after picking up the shipped bike from a LBS in Missoula. I was sitting under a bridge to keep out of the rain and worked in a hurry. Bolt fell out on the 5th day of the tour. I’ve never made that mistake again. I could have gotten seriously messed up.
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Screwed it in tightly. Fortunately, I had a spare, but not a spare 1/4” spacer, so the rack was a little off, but not enough to affect handling. I now periodically check my rack bolts when on tour.
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Do you think that the bolt may not have been properly tightened the first time? With your riding conditions (loaded touring), double-checking things on a regular basis is probably a really good idea. $#!+ happens, and sometimes not at convenient times or locations.
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Total operator error. As noted, I was under a bridge because of a shower. Ii looked like it was going to get worse, and the GF and I still had to shop for dinner groceries and get back to camp. Plus, we had been up since 3:00 am east coast time and had been traveling all day. Cab, flight, layover, flight, cab, check in at campground, cab to LBS.
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Big fan of Nylon insert lock nuts for things like racks. I might point out that the worst trouble I have had on a bicycle was the <expletive> French Bottom Bracket on my Peugeot. Clearly a case of poor design.
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Over the years I've been witness to a number of cage bolts loosening. Those of others and yes, a few of my own. I think people are hesitant to wrench down on them due to the variety of materials involved. You can be pretty safe in tightening a stem bolt to 5-6 Nm but a carbon cage might have a spec of 1Nm for a bolt just one size smaller. Throw in Riv-nuts, butted tubing at its thinnest, etc. and general absence of published specs. Anyway, if folks are plagued by loose cage bolts, I'd suggest blue Loctite.
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Pot metal wasn't used exclusively by the French, of course. The drilled cable carrier bolts Balilla supplied with their centerpull brakes were cunningly configured such that the difference between a slipping brake cable and a snapped bolt was about 22 degrees of nut movement.
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Had my water bottle bolts torqued to spec too, but rode several miles of gravel, so the bike got a good shaking. Heard some banging and one bolt was gone and the top most was just hanging in there. Locktite to the rescue.
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I think most people knew cycling was dirty, knew that Lance was dirty, Jan was dirty, Pantani was dirty - all of them were dirty. And ALL entities did what every they could to keep things covered up. And all the teams did whatever they could to keep things covered up***..
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On top of that, he gave that pep talk to Vince Vaughn in the Dodgeball movie. That was the last straw. Hard to support a cheater when he's spewing BS like that.
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Personally because Trek financially massacred Lemond (and his Legacy) at Arm$trong's request.
It's a long story, but I lived through it. I still cherish my pre-Trek Lemond bike.
F-word every Lance fanboi who called Lemond a crybaby, or claimed Lemond ever doped. Lemond was the ONLY champion (in the history of professional cycling) who advocated for increased doping controls WHILE HE WAS WINNING.
I've seen dozens of Armstrong fanbois in this forum attack Lemond and claim "they're all dopers anyway". Eff them and eff the Treks they rode in on. Cycling was a better sport before Armstrong and Trek, and it will be a better sport once it's cleansed of both.
It's a long story, but I lived through it. I still cherish my pre-Trek Lemond bike.
F-word every Lance fanboi who called Lemond a crybaby, or claimed Lemond ever doped. Lemond was the ONLY champion (in the history of professional cycling) who advocated for increased doping controls WHILE HE WAS WINNING.
I've seen dozens of Armstrong fanbois in this forum attack Lemond and claim "they're all dopers anyway". Eff them and eff the Treks they rode in on. Cycling was a better sport before Armstrong and Trek, and it will be a better sport once it's cleansed of both.
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I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.
Trek rode the Armstrong train, and that train wasn't doing sportsmanlike things. Truck feck and every Armstrong fannyboi who called Lemond a crybaby and every Armstrong lawyer who brought up Lemond's childhood. Utter reprehensible and unforgivable.
I shook Floyd Landis' hand (and he narrowly beat me at L'Etape du California). And I'd been in a Cat-2 USCF criterium against Armstrong near Austin (he had a cute shirt saying "I <3 my mom", but if I had the opportunity again, I'd spit in his face and try to punch him back then.
Trek rode the Armstrong train, and that train wasn't doing sportsmanlike things. Truck feck and every Armstrong fannyboi who called Lemond a crybaby and every Armstrong lawyer who brought up Lemond's childhood. Utter reprehensible and unforgivable.
I shook Floyd Landis' hand (and he narrowly beat me at L'Etape du California). And I'd been in a Cat-2 USCF criterium against Armstrong near Austin (he had a cute shirt saying "I <3 my mom", but if I had the opportunity again, I'd spit in his face and try to punch him back then.
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Personally because Trek financially massacred Lemond (and his Legacy) at Arm$trong's request.
It's a long story, but I lived through it. I still cherish my pre-Trek Lemond bike.
F-word every Lance fanboi who called Lemond a crybaby, or claimed Lemond ever doped. Lemond was the ONLY champion (in the history of professional cycling) who advocated for increased doping controls WHILE HE WAS WINNING.
I've seen dozens of Armstrong fanbois in this forum attack Lemond and claim "they're all dopers anyway". Eff them and eff the Treks they rode in on. Cycling was a better sport before Armstrong and Trek, and it will be a better sport once it's cleansed of both.
It's a long story, but I lived through it. I still cherish my pre-Trek Lemond bike.
F-word every Lance fanboi who called Lemond a crybaby, or claimed Lemond ever doped. Lemond was the ONLY champion (in the history of professional cycling) who advocated for increased doping controls WHILE HE WAS WINNING.
I've seen dozens of Armstrong fanbois in this forum attack Lemond and claim "they're all dopers anyway". Eff them and eff the Treks they rode in on. Cycling was a better sport before Armstrong and Trek, and it will be a better sport once it's cleansed of both.
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I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.
Trek rode the Armstrong train, and that train wasn't doing sportsmanlike things. Truck feck and every Armstrong fannyboi who called Lemond a crybaby and every Armstrong lawyer who brought up Lemond's childhood. Utter reprehensible and unforgivable.
I shook Floyd Landis' hand (and he narrowly beat me at L'Etape du California). And I'd been in a Cat-2 USCF criterium against Armstrong near Austin (he had a cute shirt saying "I <3 my mom", but if I had the opportunity again, I'd spit in his face and try to punch him back then.
Trek rode the Armstrong train, and that train wasn't doing sportsmanlike things. Truck feck and every Armstrong fannyboi who called Lemond a crybaby and every Armstrong lawyer who brought up Lemond's childhood. Utter reprehensible and unforgivable.
I shook Floyd Landis' hand (and he narrowly beat me at L'Etape du California). And I'd been in a Cat-2 USCF criterium against Armstrong near Austin (he had a cute shirt saying "I <3 my mom", but if I had the opportunity again, I'd spit in his face and try to punch him back then.
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Only that the Armstrong apologists were and are. And that Trek is still a known associate. Kudos to you for seeing the difference. /s