Quote Originally Posted by Mr. SR500 View Post
Sounds like Trek offered a reasonable solution. Trek no longer builds LeMonds, so they offered a reasonable replacement for his Lemond. His bike was not top of the line, the new 5.2 Madone would be a nice replacement.

The replacement should be worked out between the dealer, Trek rep, and customer. Sorry the exact same frame was not available, but going from a 4 year old LeMond to a brand new Madone would be a very good upgrade. As for the carbon, the 5.2 is has black carbon = 110 (white = 120, red = 55).

Seems like Trek was fair to me.
+1 To me, it seems like Trek is trying to work with him. They couldn't get him the LeMond, so they tried going with a Trek. It seems a bit too premature to be bashing the company.

As for your question about Trek dealing with the shop differently because of the gender of the owner....I don't see anything they've done that would make me draw that conclusion.