As most of my faithful stalkers are aware, I refuse to pass final judgement on a bicycle until I've seen one in person.
And as a select few of you unfortunate souls may remember, I didn't like the Equinox line from the begining. From the TT frame re-painted and passed off as a "tri-bike" to the round seattubed, giant headtubed, ugly colored frames of last year. Well, this year I was pleasently suprised with the new frame design and choice of colors.
Well, final judgement. I finally was wandering around the Trek lbs today, and I bumped into the Trek Equinox 7.
Can't say as I liked it in the least. The welds were sloppy and choppy. The paint is sub-par, and the components looked like they were picked and mixed together in an old fashioned blender. The frame looks like an actual Frankenbike with part welded and glued eveyr which way but up.
I respect Trek as a company. I have nothing bad to say about 90% of their products. Their OCLV line is incredible to say the least, but this tri-line insults me as a triathlete. It's as if saying, thanks to all the triathletes for your business in the past, but you don't really deserve a second look.
It doesn't look like a market researched project. It more resembles a consolation prize for a jr. high spelling bee.
Why am I writing this? Well, it would have come out eventually. Someone would have talked about how their lbs says this is such a great bike and they wanted input. And I would have been happy to re-inform them. My question is, what's the deal here? Am I overlooking something important? Should I cut them some slack? Good gracious.
And as a select few of you unfortunate souls may remember, I didn't like the Equinox line from the begining. From the TT frame re-painted and passed off as a "tri-bike" to the round seattubed, giant headtubed, ugly colored frames of last year. Well, this year I was pleasently suprised with the new frame design and choice of colors.
Well, final judgement. I finally was wandering around the Trek lbs today, and I bumped into the Trek Equinox 7.
Can't say as I liked it in the least. The welds were sloppy and choppy. The paint is sub-par, and the components looked like they were picked and mixed together in an old fashioned blender. The frame looks like an actual Frankenbike with part welded and glued eveyr which way but up.
I respect Trek as a company. I have nothing bad to say about 90% of their products. Their OCLV line is incredible to say the least, but this tri-line insults me as a triathlete. It's as if saying, thanks to all the triathletes for your business in the past, but you don't really deserve a second look.
It doesn't look like a market researched project. It more resembles a consolation prize for a jr. high spelling bee.
Why am I writing this? Well, it would have come out eventually. Someone would have talked about how their lbs says this is such a great bike and they wanted input. And I would have been happy to re-inform them. My question is, what's the deal here? Am I overlooking something important? Should I cut them some slack? Good gracious.