Trek Bicycle Corporation

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Trek Bicycle Corporation

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legal form Corporation
founding 1976
Seat Waterloo, Wisconsin United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management John Burke, President
Number of employees 3000
Branch Bicycle manufacturing
Website www.trekbikes.com

Trek Bicycle Corporation , headquartered in Waterloo, Wisconsin, is an American , family-run bicycle manufacturer. The company sells Trek , Klein , LeMond , Diamant, and electra bicycle brands as well as bicycle components under the Bontrager logo ; the company is the largest manufacturer in the states. The former brands Villiger and Gary Fisher have not been managed by Trek Bicycle Corp since 2014.

history

Trek 531 racing bike from 1983

The company was founded in 1976 with five employees in a barn in Waterloo (Wisconsin) , USA. In 1982 the first racing bike was produced , and in 1983 the first mountain bike was produced . In 1989, Trek opened its first non-American offices in the UK and Germany . In 1993 the Gary Fisher company was taken over. Its owner, Gary Fisher, stayed with the company and is still responsible for the bikes that bear his name. In 1995 Trek took over the bicycle manufacturer Klein and the parts supplier Bontrager, followed in 2003 by the bicycle division of the traditional Swiss company Villiger , which also included Diamant , the oldest German bicycle company. In 2014, the Californian bicycle manufacturer electra, founded in 1993, was purchased.

The owner family gave Lance Armstrong a small portion of their property. In contrast, Trek tried to muzzle the Armstrong and doping critic Greg LeMond and parted ways with him as a sponsor. The LeMond brand bicycles have not been actively advertised since then.

Cycling successes

Trek has become increasingly involved in cycling as a sponsor over the years . Since the mid-1990s, there have been significant victories on Trek bikes in both mountain biking and road cycling .

Significant victories in the MTB sector

In 1996 Paola Pezzo won the gold medal in the 1st Olympic Mountain Bike Race on a Gary Fisher ProCaliber. In 2010, Tracy Mosley from Team Trek World Racing became world champion in mountain bike downhill on a Trek Session 88.

In 2016 Rachel Atherton won the UCI Dowhnill World Championship on a Trek Session 9.9

Major victories in road cycling

Trek bike with which Jens Voigt set the world hour record in 2014
Lance Armstrong on his Trek TTX

The first victory on a Trek bike in a grand tour was celebrated by Lance Armstrong in 1999 . However, he was stripped of all Tour de France titles after evidence of doping. Thus the Spaniard Alberto Contador drove the first tour victories for Trek. He won the Tour de France in 2007 and 2009 as well as the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España in 2008 on bikes from the Trek Madone series. The namesake of the Trek Madone series is the Col de la Madone near Nice .

year run Wheel model winner Remarks
1999 Tour de France Trek 5500 Lance Armstrong Title canceled
2000 Tour de France Trek 5900 Lance Armstrong Title canceled
2001 Tour de France Trek 5900 Lance Armstrong Title canceled
2002 Tour de France Trek 5900 Lance Armstrong Title canceled
2003 Tour de France Trek 5900 Lance Armstrong Title canceled
2004 Tour de France Madone 5.9 SL Lance Armstrong Title canceled
2005 Tour de France Madone 5.9 SSLx Lance Armstrong Title canceled
2007 Tour de France Madone 5.2 Alberto Contador
2008 Giro d'Italia Madone 5.2 Alberto Contador
2008 Vuelta a España Madone 5.2 Alberto Contador
2009 Tour de France Madone 6 Alberto Contador

Products

Trek 742 touring bike

Trek bicycles such as the Madone 6.9 and all other models of the Trek Madone series ridden by Tour de France participant Lance Armstrong are or were produced at the company's headquarters in Waterloo ( Wisconsin ). In the beginning the company specialized in touring bikes , later racing bikes , mountain bikes and trekking bikes were added.

Diamond brand wheels are manufactured exclusively in Hartmannsdorf near Chemnitz , Germany . The majority of Trek mountain bikes and racing bikes come from Taiwan .

Trek started series production of high-quality carbon frames in 1992 as the first manufacturer worldwide . In 2000, Trek launched a mountain bike series specially designed for the female anatomy under the name WSD .

See also

References and comments

  1. ↑ https://www.diamantrad.com/impressum.html
  2. ↑ https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=stålhästen&qs=SC&pq=stalhasen&sc=8-9&cvid=5BEBFEF40EBE42F3BF82FBA56A8C77AE&FORM=QBLH&sp=1
  3. ↑ a b Electra | Trek Bikes (DE). Retrieved October 10, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ http://www.businessinsider.de/trek-bicycle-john-burke-slams-trump-on-taxes-leadership-2017-4?r=US&IR=T
  5. ↑ https://radmarkt.de/nachrichten/hausmesse-trek-world-ulm-ohne-villiger-aber-mit-electra/
  6. ↑ Kalwa, Jürgen: After doping conspiracy. The new cycling Waterloo , FAZ, January 11, 2014
  7. ↑ Burkert, Andreas: Interview with Greg LeMond: "It's almost like the Mafia" , SZ, July 17, 2010
  8. ↑ 2016 MTB Downhill World Championship. In: Redbull.com. Redbull, September 11, 2016, accessed December 27, 2017 .
  9. ^ David Rome: Rachel Atherton's Trek Session 9.9. Accessed December 21, 2017 .

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