Quote Originally Posted by luckyfiddle View Post
I don't want to hijack your thread but I also have questions. I just bought an '08 Trek 4.5 Madone and I like my Trek '96 better at the moment for several reasons. I have a bad neck and I am finding the handle bars to be uncomfortable to my shoulders which in turn affects my neck and gives me migraines. I do love how smooth my bike is but I am just not getting the pleasure out of it I thought I would. I put 700 miles on my old Trek in 10 weeks so I was riding quite a bit and thought an upgrade was needed after 12 years. I don't feel that they fitted me as well as they could at the Trek store and the chain popped off the 2nd time I rode it and it clunks when it shifts and sometimes it like it gets stuck between gears and I have to play with them to basically make it pick a gear. Tonight at one point it was like it was locked up and I had almost stop before it would shift high or low. So, any words of advice.
It definitely sounds like you need a better fitting on the Madone to address your neck issues.

As to the shifting, new bikes are subject to cable stretch with can make shifting erratic. This is normal, but you need to take the bike in so that they can adjust it to shift better again. You may have to repeat this a few times in the first few months and first few 100 miles.