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.
I have minor lower back problems and visit the chiropractor monthly. He's had to adjust my neck more since I switched to a road bike. He's always surprised it hasn't given me headaches (yet). Call the lbs and ask for the owner or manager--sometimes the kids that work in the afternoons and weekends aren't the most motivated. My original fit was done by the owner and very thorough. It took a few more visits to get the "kids" to take me seriously.