Trek - Cunningham/WTB

[mrkawasaki]

OMG... a reply from on high!

Yep, that's a schoolboy interpretation on my part... how did the tie up come about? Through the SunTour connections? Did the WTB geometry get licensed and trickled down the range - if so, when did that come to a halt?

Mr K

 

[FirstFlight]

Mombat's info is a tiny bit misleading which is probably causing you to assume that the 87 bike is a replica of the 86 bike. In 87 the bike was the WTB-Trek Team bike, not a "replica" as mombat states. 87 was the only year they rode the Trek.

Replica as in not a team race bikes (IE: a replica of the bikes that the actual team rode). Manufacturers often offer bikes that may be technically identical to the race bikes but can be bought by the general public. I think the Tomac Raleigh replica bikes would be the classic example. They built replicas of the actual race bike that was currently be raced by Tomac.

 

[bushpig]

I'm guessing that the Trek Team Replica was of their 1986 WTB/Trek race team bike, as the timeline suggests that there was a Cunningham Race Team for 1987.

The Cunningham and WTB teams co-existed for a few years. The Cunningham team rode Cunninghams and the WTB team rode Treks, and Potts.