> Or they just have that many frames left? The geo is so similar I assume it was tweaked a while back? Just leave them raw at the factory and paint them as model years?
I think the geometry was changed slightly when the carbon version came out, which followed the alloy after a year or two. I don't recall exactly when the alloy model was tweaked, but it was some time ago. Not sure which you tested. If you're seeing a different geo since then on Trek's website, that's entirely possible too because they changed the way they report bike geometry on their site a little while ago - you got to watch bikes that did not change year over year from like 2019 to 2020 geometry tables get tweaked.
I was curious as I hadn't looked in a while, so I hopped on the dealer site. Turns out they have decent stock of Full Stache as well as carbon and alloy Stache hardtail models, all in quite low numbers. But more interesting, there's dates as far ahead as February 2023 for some that were low/no stock. I can't imagine a company with such a strong forecasting and analytics department would over produce all three of those models, especially after every single one they had sold out for a few (much larger) runs over the main panic of COVID. They've also all stayed the same colour for at least 3 model years at this point.
Maybe you're right, maybe they're overproduced, and maybe they're trickling in because they just warehouse in Asia and paint and send them as needed. But you'd think they would have run out of ONE of the three frame options, at least in a size or two! But no, every single frame style and every single size either has North American stock or frames incoming. Extremely weird behaviour for a big company, especially when I've seen truly discontinued frames that they have lots of go up for some truly obscene dealer pricing. These have had their MSRP reduced, but aren't specifically on sale.
Maybe when the industry is done with its current fad and the next two, people will have forgotten enough of the bad press about plus tires that the big bike companies will give plus tires another kick at the can with a big, big marketing push. It wouldn't be surprising in the slightest.
July 4, 2022, 8:12 p.m. - Lu Kz
> Or they just have that many frames left? The geo is so similar I assume it was tweaked a while back? Just leave them raw at the factory and paint them as model years? I think the geometry was changed slightly when the carbon version came out, which followed the alloy after a year or two. I don't recall exactly when the alloy model was tweaked, but it was some time ago. Not sure which you tested. If you're seeing a different geo since then on Trek's website, that's entirely possible too because they changed the way they report bike geometry on their site a little while ago - you got to watch bikes that did not change year over year from like 2019 to 2020 geometry tables get tweaked. I was curious as I hadn't looked in a while, so I hopped on the dealer site. Turns out they have decent stock of Full Stache as well as carbon and alloy Stache hardtail models, all in quite low numbers. But more interesting, there's dates as far ahead as February 2023 for some that were low/no stock. I can't imagine a company with such a strong forecasting and analytics department would over produce all three of those models, especially after every single one they had sold out for a few (much larger) runs over the main panic of COVID. They've also all stayed the same colour for at least 3 model years at this point. Maybe you're right, maybe they're overproduced, and maybe they're trickling in because they just warehouse in Asia and paint and send them as needed. But you'd think they would have run out of ONE of the three frame options, at least in a size or two! But no, every single frame style and every single size either has North American stock or frames incoming. Extremely weird behaviour for a big company, especially when I've seen truly discontinued frames that they have lots of go up for some truly obscene dealer pricing. These have had their MSRP reduced, but aren't specifically on sale. Maybe when the industry is done with its current fad and the next two, people will have forgotten enough of the bad press about plus tires that the big bike companies will give plus tires another kick at the can with a big, big marketing push. It wouldn't be surprising in the slightest.