Posted on 10/30/2014 4:29:21 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
I own a Trek Mountaintrack 800.
Nice bike, a little too lightweight though for a mountainbike.
It’s a chromoly frame.
So, slight changes in your seating sends the thing flyyyyyying.
Burke was about as competent as a cross eyed prostitute on lsd and Quaaludes.
Lol. I do appreciate your humble candor. Been there. Done that.
What is the local meme for reasons to hate scott walker? Wisconsin is the model of state government improvement. Employment, financial position, etc. What are they claiming as his faults?
wow
she’s still running commercials that lie about her business success at trek and creating jobs.
Well, surprise, surprise, surprise: yet another lying, incompentant, scoundrel democrat.
The D party is a criminal organization attracting every idiot and sociopath in this country.
Love their ID’ing the former execs as “conservative” kinda the Madison equivalent of ‘pedophile,’ or something.
Hahaha! “Conservative Ex-Execs”!? They just have no idea how stupid they look.
I won one in a contest once. I gave it to a niece. It was an entry level model. W was photographed riding one on his mountain bike rides while President.
It rides real nice.
I had to grab those horse shoe shaped “brake boosters” to keep the forks from flexing.
It being a light chromoly frame, the direct pull brakes visibly flexed the forks.
:(
In 1982 I heard about Trek and rode my custom Woodrup touring bicycle from Madison to their factory. I just sort of showed up, expecting there might be some sort of organized tour. The folks at the front desk were surprised that anyone would want a tour, and told me I could wander through the plant if I promised to stay away from anything dangerous. At that time it was basically a metal shed (”pole barn” might be an appropriate description), with a motley crew of frame welders and painters here and there.
They really made something out of it, and interviews with her father seem to indicate he thinks it was marketing and endorsements (with Lance Armstrong) that really leveraged them into significant success.
Her father accomplished something. She went along for the ride, partway, like children of successful entrepreneurs often do.
No matter what the truth of her involvement at Trek was, she is not a leader, she is not made of the material of which a good Governor is made.
Scott Walker will beat her like a rented car.
There is also the same type of uncontested “meme” pervasive in Florida, regarding Rick Scott.
I bought a Trek competition mountain bike back in 1989 or 1990. The darned thing is almost indestructible and I still own it today. I liked it so much I bought my wife a Trek crossover type bike and she also uses it to this day.
That would be disturbing
Now I have a qualifier - they must be pro-life and successful at running a business.
Yes, I got one about 12 years ago. It is a great ride.
Good qualifier. I, for example, am not a business man... and I can prove it. :)
Incompetent and corrupt are Bolshecrat virtues.
I think that a person who has only sold newspapers as a kid for three months in order to buy a baseball mitt would have more business knowledge than any demoncrap in Congress right now or ever.
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