This may not hold much water but I can confirm that the initiative to take another look at this bike came from Andrew. Both Pete and I questioned the need and Andrew's motivation to do this and in the end we felt his reasoning was sound.
A difference between us and bike mag is that Trek has never bought any advertising from us. Beyond that the initial review wasn't negative and we didn't get any feedback at all from Trek about it.
Personally I appreciate the fact that our audience calls us on this sort of thing and holds us to a high standard. I sometimes wish some of our competitors had the same kind of intelligent, critical and savvy audience.
Aug. 9, 2017, 3:54 p.m. - Cam McRae
This may not hold much water but I can confirm that the initiative to take another look at this bike came from Andrew. Both Pete and I questioned the need and Andrew's motivation to do this and in the end we felt his reasoning was sound. A difference between us and bike mag is that Trek has never bought any advertising from us. Beyond that the initial review wasn't negative and we didn't get any feedback at all from Trek about it. Personally I appreciate the fact that our audience calls us on this sort of thing and holds us to a high standard. I sometimes wish some of our competitors had the same kind of intelligent, critical and savvy audience.