POLL : Broken Trek Frames - Page 2

I've ridden a 1500 for two years now, with no problems; however I have had no crashes...yet.

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15% is a pretty big %.

I've had a very big crash and it came out with a little scratch. My head probably took the brunt as my helmet split in half...

I'm happy with my TREK5500 and I've had it 2 years.

all carbon oclv frames are still made in Wi.

Yes, but OCLV is not the only carbon frame they offer anymore.

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I have had rough falls with my 2005 Trek 1200 during 2005. About five heavy falls of which three was at high speed and believe me except, for the handle bars that god badly damaged and replaced, NOTHING happened to the frame. Fellow cyclists who was present at each and every fall could not believe that my bicycle is still going - with no pain to the frame at all. No cracks na tears - nothing broken!

Which frames are they making elsewhere?
Where is elsewhere?

TREK make a lot of bikes in Taiwan as well. (My wife's was anyway).

The low-end Treks are made in China, the mid-range in Taiwan, and only the all-CF bikes are made in the US. Last time I looked, the Chinese and Taiwanese models had a country of origin decal on the bottom front of headtube, so it's easy to tell what's from where. Believe Trek made a tough business decision here; but had little choice if they wanted to stay in the high-volume part of the bike business.

Huh. Thanks for that info. I've read so much "only bike company that creates 'entirely made in the USA'", that I've never spent a minute looking into this.

In business, I'm always a proprietor in ensuring that you stick with your 'core principles'. I always understood Trek to be a 100% US company with it's suppliers even being in the US (I admit that I may have naively thought this all along). In my mind, that was a strong statement for it's North American sales. However, if they had to do it, I'll believe they had to do it. It should be interesting to see how that goes for them.

Cheers.

Actually, in 2006 Trek changed the 5000 from OCLV to TCT carbon, which is made somewhere in Asia, IIRC.

The OCLV frames (5200 and up) are still made in Wi.

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Thanks for the update. I was basing my info on a discussion with my friendly Trek dealer last summer. Appears the trend is continuing in '06.

Believe it will be hard for Trek to continue to compete with "Made in the USA" vs the high-quality, low cost CF products coming from Asia. Seems there are only a few of us old-timers willing to pay more for the US-made products.

Of course, change isn't anything new in the global bicycle business. Going back to the '70s, didn't Raleigh UK and Schwinn make similar moves in the face of the arrival of high-quality lower-cost bikes from Japan?

Trek Factory Tour Tonight on the Travel Channel. Maybe shed some light on the subject. http://travel.discovery.com/tvlistin...=0&channel=TRV

As I understood from the guy at my local shop the frames have a lifetime guarantee, doesn't that mean a free replacement?

I had a 98 7500. Started hearing a click when i pedeled. Went back to lbs and they tighted everything and checked everything and i road it around the parking lot and it still did it. They said leave the bike so the Trek rep could look at it. 3 months latter Terk said its a cracked frame so give me a 99. Well my 98 was a great ice blue{best color i've seen} and the 99 was the worst forest geen i've ever seen. I said no,i dont want that color. Well all we have are a couple of 2000 that just came in,i said that will work and thats what i got in a grey.

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This probably doesn't count toward the objective of the original post, but I have 2 TREK 720's that I bought in 1985. Both are going strong. These have Reynolds 531 frames, which have been discontinued by TREK on the 520. One has about 10,000 miles on it, and each time I tune it up I question my sanity in contemplating the purchase of a $2,000 Bruce Gordon.

I have had 6 Trek frames break in the last 10 years. As a matter
of fact I just sent another frame back for a broken bottom bracket and this is the
third time this has happened. They are great frames but I don't think they
can take the punishment.