Rants are good, and everything you say about Trek and Carl is absolutely true. I recommend frames for all my athletes and Waterloo and Toronto make this very easy for me to play with coordinates. I have _never_ recommended a Scott to anyone based on fit (have for 1 based on the killer deal available - if it didn't work out $$$ was to be gained on the switch).
I know that in the past Switzerland has _really_ hamstrung Ketchum's efforts and Adrian made the problem worse in the marketing department. "hmmm, i'll sponsor my friends and pretty girls." Rather than market with science, he just perpetuated the euro "looks" marketing culture. This was at a time where cervelo was already making a killing (i.e. publicly published case study for selling bikes) by selling to science and fit. Mr Montgomery has been gone for awhile now and yet I see no change in the marketing team's approach from ketchum. Now is this just another up high directive from Switz that's driving that, i don't know, but it certainly is still showing that they don't really care.
When I first saw the bike in Frankfurt last year my reaction was "super cool, but I hate tall/short bikes". I'll have to have another look based on this article... but that would sorta require them to fulfill that request of yours.
And personally, at R:615 and S:615, i'm not sure i'll be on any other bike but an old P3 anytime soon.
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