Trek Factory Tour - From Rolls Of Carbon Fiber To Complete Bikes In Waterloo, Wisconsin
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2024
- We tour Trek's home facility in Waterloo, WI, where carbon frames are made in the USA, painted and assembled into bikes.
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We take a look behind the scenes at Trek's USA factory. As one of the only major brands still making carbon fiber frames in the USA, this was an incredible opportunity to find out just how carbon fiber is transformed from big rolls of fiber into finished bikes like the Madone.
Also, the factory is home to Trek's paintshop, where many all of their Project One bikes are painted up.
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Mine Trek Domane has a sticker on it "made in Taiwan", which I guess is another town in Wisconsin.
hahahaha
Lee Hargreaves as a Wisconsin resident I can confirm Taiwan is indeed a town
It is! XD I live here
my 2012 madone has " designed in waterloo wisconsin " displayed on the chain stay . Where it was actually made is not stated but I would bet Taiwan and maybe on giant street . Regardless, I am very happy with my bike .
lane lon --> My 2011 Madone frame was made in WI by the engineers, great one of a kind bike w/lots of soul. My Trek dealer said that program doesn't exist anymore.
For all those who asked below, the Lance Section of the museum is located in the Nurse's office by the first aid kit with all the other medical supplies.
Lmao
What about the barn, Tom? What about the barn?!
Yes, the barn. Where was it?
We demand a follow-up piece titled Back to the Barn. C'mon, man, you can't get our hopes up like that and then ride off on your shiny new bike without a trip to the barn.
It is a quotation from somewhere?
#barnorbust
BarnOne™ Bikes
The bike at the end was a beauty.
My wife and I toured the Trek factory back in 2014. We thorougly enjoyed the tour. We'll be going back in spring of 2018.
Nice work on the Project One Madone design!
just bought my first trek 7.2. love it!
Thats the first time I've literally exclaimed out loud at a youtube video- the unveling of your bike Tom, sweeeet!
What a treat, to be ale to see the inside of the Trek factory. I am amazed you guys had so much access to the Trek factory. I'm not sure if I missed it or maybe GCN has never done a walk through the Campagnolo factory but I would be delighted to see that video.
Cool... From the video it looks like the barn build bikes included the 850... Trek's first Rough Terrain bicycle. I got one when they first hit the catalog in 1983 and I still have it! There were no bicycle trails back then... I've had a lot of adventures with that bike including a 3,140 mile self-supported bicycle trip with front and rear panniers mounted on it. I still ride the bike and did so just 2 days ago. I've had a lot of bicycles over the years (have 5 now) and it is safe to say I've had my greatest adventures to date on a Trek 850 and a Trek 520.
My older best friend bought an 870 in the 80s with a special speckled paint job! He was hit by a car a month after he bought it. Trek only had 850s. So he bought an 850.
Those 850s and 870s where lugged and butted works of craftsmanship completely MADE in the 🇺🇸!!!
He said the 870 was absolutely better but the 850 is/was great. He still has the 850 in his garage.
R.I.P. USA manufacturing 😤😤😤
It chanced a little bit when I visited it 22 years ago. I am jealous of your Project One Bike, even the colour scheme is fine.
This is absolutely amazing. Trek number one.
This is awesome! Just got a Speed Concept earlier this year and it's been great!
Well done.
Awesome manufacturing process
Great job Trek!
Thank you Trek Employees, you make a difference !
I have the trek domane SL5 and what a bile it is it’s such a great bile for comfort and just all round bike
I wish I could have a madone. those bikes look so amazing.
Real flame 🔥 super cool paint job
that is a great looking bike.......epic stuff....well done mate. we guys from kenya absolutely enjoyed the look and design
those white walls on the dirt jumper....sick!!!
Love my new Madone - Working at that facility would be my dream job!
awesome video. love the color on the bike Tom
Nice tour. So Super so beautiful bike. Wishing wishing someday have one. In my dreams. hehehe. thank you TREK
Great video, enjoyed it. Wish you all made more videos on the bike productions.
what a classy job to be a bike frame crafter. thanks for the video
Great job lasti really enjoyed this factory tour
What a souvenir, I'm jealous.
Hello Sir Tom, Good day...what a nice bike ever...i wish i have that brand of bike someday. More power to your Channel.
Enjoy your new Steed. Hopefully you stopped around in the area to sample the our local Grub and Brews....Cheers
Wow what a gorgeous bike.
As a huge Trek fan, this video is amazing. I know it's 6 years old but still cool to see. 👍🏼👍🏼
wow. great video. great info. thanks so much!
That is a great looking bike! Congrats Tom!
Congrats Tom on the new bike!
Super great show! I just ordered a TREK Emonda and I'm glad I did. Tom, u are the man!
Excellent video Tom. So that's where my Trek 1.2 alpha came from.
ivan yallop --> Doubt it, your 1.2 alpha is a rebranded Huffy.
Beautiful bike Tom! Enjoy!
Wow wow wow that bike looks so nice
My Marlin 8 has a made in Cambodia sticker on it. Lots of bikes in Cambodia. Very nice bike.
Lasty has really gotten good on camera--and clearly enjoying it. Nice tour!
The look of pure joy at 10:57
Cool looking bike.
All of those bikes are beautiful and I dig that Trek accommodates their customers' frame-paint schemes, but that bike with fiber pipes in chrome lugs would be very cool as a daily driver. I'm thinking about how I'd want it painted--maybe metal-flake blue like my Sting-Ray back in the Sixties :)
The best looking Malone I've seen yet. Well done
Lovely bike, Lasty. Enjoy!
Well done, Tom! Well presented, and nice ProjectONE too!
Tom, your bike is gorgeous!
AWESOME SETUP FROM TREK BICYCLES FACTORY.
That was freaking cool man. I want a souvenir too lol
great job on the paint Tom.
Great vid Lasty, nice bike too.
Would be nice to have a disclaimer that this is only a fraction of the bikes TREK builds. Most of their bikes are actually built by GIANT in China and Taiwan.
Project One mate! Says it all
All they do is design, don't manufacture anything, that's contracted out to lowest bidder.
and thank god for that. Minium wage workers in the USA dont produce any better products than minium wage workers in asia. In fact I think the asians do a better job. as long as the manufacturing methods and standards are set by someone with a clue its all good
@@mammutit It's complicated. Taiwan and Japan, yes (but as you say, if you watch the PinkBike videos, the Taiwanese shops are full of American and Japanese engineers to make sure it gets done right). China, India, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, no. Malaysia, depends on the product. Just having had to deal with that having worked for a company that had manufacturing plants and machine shops in China and Wisconsin, we could tell which batches were from the Chinese shop on sight, and the US made parts were already pretty bad (but the US shop has 5 machinists and the Chinese shop had 50, the company is trying to outsource but can't find Chinese machinists who can make the parts to spec). Other than that, just comparing Japanese to Taiwanese Hondas, or Japanese to Malaysian, Chinese, or Philippine Shimano or Seiko parts there is a very obvious difference in fit and finish as well as precision. On the flip side, most HD parts are made in China, only assembly is done in the US, and the Chinese parts are better than the US parts, but HD never really made reliable motorcycles with a good F&F in the first place.
Florian Kneidl: You’re shitting me. I’m so sick of China.
I rolled on Belarusian Smart, Russian Stels and German Cube. Now I have a Trek 920. I caught my beast. Just sit down and try. Trek immediately became my body. It is necessary to try. I could not choose the frame size from 3 sizes and 5 different Cube models, but when I was not trying on the Trek I drove 10 miles until I realized that I was already going. He's just like legs. You go, you go - it's just as simple, steady and familiar. It can not fall if you do not fall standing on his feet.
Fan of all bikes.
I like the brick red highlights.
Huge fan of Trek.
Was unsure of what bike to get, have a multitude in mind and when I test rode the Trek 520 I knew I had to have it. They make beautiful bikes.
That is one lovely looking bike
Tom, you are the best GCN presenter...
Great video, thanks.
An excellent video Tom!
wow superb bikes
Nice bike Tom, good job👍👏
pretty nice souvenir
Very nice looking bike!
Nice one Lasty
Madone is the best!! Great video
Very very very nice Madone
Awesome man..
That is a very nice Souvenir from Wisconsin. Better than a Brett Favre bobble-head.
Looks good have not used it yet
I'm so jealous right now!! And awesome paint job! I love it!
i wouldn't get so jealous, most likely only a loan bike until GCN feature some other brand for the crew to use
agree on the paint tho !
+altern8ive plus it has SRAM eTap on it!!
that.. i hadn't noticed ! :)
Trek.. La mejor bicicleta del mundo
Very cool technology. Would like to see the molds that form the carbon. Very cool machining.
Nice to see the ladies touch on production.
Tom, the UCI called for a tech inspection :)
OMG this bike is so sick .. that red and black version looks sooooo good. Jealous ! :D
Beautiful bike you spec'd
Great VDO. I like Trek bike.
Amazing stuff
nice paint job.
Very nice looking paint scheme. I don't think I'd be able to decide. I would labor over such a decision.
That was a sweet looking bike I'll give you guys that!
great video, love it.
Omg I want one of these bikes
Tom, can you do a special "presenter's bike" episode on your new madone!?
I bet one is coming.
I don't think he speaks Chinese to talk to the people making his Madone.
Nice one Lasty!
Enjoy your new bike
Si cool suvenir man ah. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Lasty your the man! As they say in the US of A.
Cool and calm i like the ride.
Love your bike
What about the Lance section? I was looking forward to it...
lol when my team was there our guide called he who shall not be named
ninjaman 1312 Well, he needs no introduction.
That’s in the “doping liars” section. 🤭
Really, Trek has an EPO section? I'll have to see that. Is it narrated by Oprah?
Lance didn’t do anything different then any other rider. The notion he is this terrible athlete or person is crazy. I do admit what he did was wrong.
i love trek
you know she was like.. oh camera i have got to look busy lol 7:27
Seeing as you're in Wisconsin, are you going to tour the myriad of other bike companies that are located there? There are a quite a few headquartered in that region. Also, you might want to ride the Elroy-Sparta trail near there with your fancy new bike. ;)
Daaang. That's a good looking bike lasty!
good information brother
TREK ES LA MEJOR MARCA DEL MONDO.
O MY GOD..... THAT BIKE!!!!
The main trek plant is in the east and is shared with specialized and pinnacle etc
Tony Parkin --> It's called Giant.
Amazing
Love the video