{"id":756,"date":"2008-04-08T21:26:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2008-04-08T22:21:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T04:21:02","slug":"trek-and-lemond-want-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/trek-and-lemond-want-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek and Lemond Want Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"BikeBiz.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bikebiz.com\/news\/29474\/Trek-files-suit-against-Greg-Lemond\" target=\"_blank\">BikeBiz.com<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a title=\"VeloNews.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.velonews.com\/article\/74387\" target=\"_blank\">Velonews.com<\/a><\/strong> report Trek and Greg Lemond are suing each other.<\/p>\n<p>BikeBiz.com reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\" style=\"display: inline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Lemond sued Trek saying it promoted Lance Armstrong ahead of his eponymous bike brand; Trek responds in kind.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>John Burke, President of Trek Bicycle Corporation, announced that Trek has filed suit in Federal Court in Madison, WI, to sever the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ongoing relationship with three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Beginning in 1995 we had high hopes for the LeMond partnership,\u00e2\u20ac? said Burke.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&#8220;I am sorry it has come to this after so much hard work on the LeMond brand. But this troubling pattern of inconsistent business dealings forced us to do this, for the sake of the Trek family\u00e2\u20ac\u201dour retailers, employees and customers.\u00e2\u20ac?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BikeBiz.com and Velonews.com report Trek and Greg Lemond are suing each other. BikeBiz.com reports: Lemond sued Trek saying it promoted Lance Armstrong ahead of his eponymous bike brand; Trek responds in kind. John Burke, President of Trek Bicycle Corporation, announced <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/trek-and-lemond-want-divorce\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,32],"tags":[68,94,93],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","category-bike-equipment","tag-bicycle-equipment","tag-greg-lemond","tag-trek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-cc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}