Would you go to a Toyota dealer to buy parts for a Ford?

i'm not sure why i'm responding to a troll, but here it goes:

1. trek does have a corner of the tri market, but more specifically, has the largest corner of the BICYCLE market.
2. cervelo's p5 also, in fact, has a proprietary stem.
3. in fact, most super bikes are moving toward that model to ensure aero-dynamics.
4. this mostly sounds like an issue with the bike shop.
5. not at LBS are exclusively Trek. in fact, most are not.
6. did you really buy a 9 series Trek and not know this?
7. this isn't a new "policy," as the SC has been out since... 2011(?), and the 9 series had a proprietary stem the whole time
8. if you know your stack and reach numbers (i am fairly certain you don't know what that means, based on everything you have written so far), you would not need to guess multiple times about the stem you need.
9. that's all i have the energy to explain to you at the moment.

]Since Trek does not allow bike shops to sell anything but Trek if they sell Trek at all,[/b] this means you must go to a Trek store. If your local, oh say, three bike shops, are all non-Trek shops, this means you must drive oh, say, 50 miles one way to the Trek store to order the part, and for the store to install the stem.
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please, direct me to a post somewhere, anywhere, that tells me this is a problem with Trek.

i'm not sure why i'm responding to a troll, but here it goes:

1. trek does have a corner of the tri market, but more specifically, has the largest corner of the BICYCLE market.

Sorry, you are correct, Giant is the largest.

I believe Trek was the first company to clear $1b in revenue, though. So they aren't exactly a slouch.

To your second point, that is kind of true. Giant has a manufacturing plant in (Taiwan?), and I believe that they mfg the carbon fiber "weave" and/or aluminum, and then sell to various bike companies. However, all of the Trek SCs are manufactured in Wisconsin.

For clarification, only treks SC9's come out of Waterloo. The 7 series comes out of China. OR at least my 2011 model did. Trek only makes their highest end frames domestically, the 2nd and 3rd tier version are made overseas...like most everyone else. The design for those frames is usually simpler due to common mfg methods instead of more advanced proprietary methods and in a way that less likely to have QC issues... better for mass production.

i just got my project 1 2014 7.5 and it has a 'made in Wisconsin, usa' sticker on it? Maybe all P1's are made there no matter what series etc?

What the heck did I miss? What was in the original post?

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Does it say "Made in Wisconsin" or "Assembled in the United States"?

As per a post from Carl earlier in the year, 2014 Speed Concepts (including 9 series) were made elsewhere and painted in the US if they are P1 bikes or that is what I took from a post in the SC thread.

I believe 7 series (and maybe 6 series) Madones are the only US made bikes but I could be wrong.

What the heck did I miss? What was in the original post?

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For clarification, only treks SC9's come out of Waterloo. The 7 series comes out of China. OR at least my 2011 model did. Trek only makes their highest end frames domestically, the 2nd and 3rd tier version are made overseas...like most everyone else. The design for those frames is usually simpler due to common mfg methods instead of more advanced proprietary methods and in a way that less likely to have QC issues... better for mass production.

Carbon manufacturing capabilities in the Asia rival that of any other manufacturing region in the world, and is arguably better.

The decision to manufacture in the US vs. Taiwan or China encompasses many different aspects, including domestic capabilities, tooling required, cost of labor, duty and a whole host of other details.

trek probably gets some tax credits or relief for example for retaining a minimum number of jobs in the US