Trek Bicycle Corporation

Trek Bicycle Corporation is a U.S. company headquartered in Waterloo, (Wisconsin, USA) and claims to be one of the world's largest manufacturer of bicycles. The company sells the bike brands Trek, Gary Fisher, Klein, LeMond, Bontrager Villiger and diamond, as well as under the logo bicycle components.

History

In 1976 the company was founded with five employees in a barn in Waterloo (Wisconsin ) / USA. In 1982 the production of the first racing bike, 1983 production of the first mountain bikes. Opened in 1989, Trek the first non-American subsidiaries in the UK and Germany. In 1993 the company was acquired Gary Fisher. Their owner Gary Fisher remained in the company and is still for the wheels that bear his name, responsible. In 1995, the bicycle manufacturer Trek and Bontrager Klein, in 2003, followed by the bicycle division of the Swiss company Villiger, which includes diamond, the oldest German bicycle company belonged.

The owner family about Lance Armstrong wore a small proportion of their possession. In contrast, Trek attempted to silence the Armstrong and doping critic Greg LeMond.

Cycling success

Trek has been involved over the years more and more as a sponsor in cycling. Both in the mountain area as well as in road cycling in particular important victories could be run on wheels Trek since the mid- 1990s.

Significant victories in the MTB sector

Paola Pezzo won in 1996 the first Olympic mountain bike race in the gold medal on a Gary Fisher ProCaliber. In 2010, Tracy Mosley from Team Trek World Racing World Champion in downhill mountain bike on a Trek Session 88

Significant victories in road cycling

The first victory on a Trek bike at a great tour was celebrated by Lance Armstrong in 1999. However, all Tour de France title he was stripped after detection of doping. Thus, the Spaniard Alberto Contador rode a for the first victories for Trek. He won the Tour de France in 2007 and 2009 and the Giro d' Italia and the Vuelta a España in 2008 on wheels the Trek Madone - series. The namesake of the Trek Madone series is the Col de la Madone in Nice.

Products

Are or were produced in Waterloo (Wisconsin ) at the company's headquarters bikes from Trek, like the Madone 6.9 and all the other driven by the Tour de France Lance Armstrong participants models of Trek Madone series. In the early days, the company was specializing in touring bikes, and later included road bikes, mountain bikes and trekking bikes.

Wheels branded diamond are made exclusively in Hartmann near Chemnitz, Germany. The majority of Trek mountain bikes and racing bikes are from Taiwan.

As the first manufacturer worldwide trek started in 1992, the mass production of high-quality carbon frame. In 2000 Trek introduced under the name of WSD one specifically tailored to the female anatomy mountain bike series to the market.