 I'm Ryan. And I'm Allie. After falling in love, we decided to ride bikes across America. Collecting love advice along the way. This is Love Cycles. No flatties, no wannies, no crannies. Ladies and gentlemen, you know how I've mentioned Jocelyn at Trek? This is Jocelyn at Trek! Can you believe it? Hi! And we're going on a field trip today of the Trek headquarters. Yep. Thanks so much for having us. Thanks for going. We're so excited to be here. Yay! It's so exciting to be here at Trek. Allie, what are you doing? I'm drying off my bike tires. Drying off your bike tires? Yeah, it sits raining out there. Ride bikes, have fun, feel good. When I was a kid, I loved going on field trips. And this right now is probably the coolest field trip you could ever go on. We're going to take our bikes back to Mitch. And Mitch is going to work on them, get them all souped up for the rest of the ride. Mitch! How's it going? Oh, hey, are you Mitch? Are you going to fix the bikes? Nice to meet you. I love your videos. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. We love making them. This is our friend, Mitch. I've never met him until today. And now it's fun to put a face to the man, the legend. He's the one that's worked on all my Trek bikes. So thanks very much. You're welcome. All right. Cheers. Jocelyn, what are we going to do now? Wait, what's going on? What's happening? We're going to get a tour of Trek Bicycle with all the stuff. Look at all that stuff. All right. And this is our tour guide. What's your name? My name's Jason. Jason. Let's do this. I'm here in Waterloo, Wisconsin. The thriving metropolis of Waterloo, Wisconsin. 3,334 people stands the worldwide headquarters of the Trek Bicycle Corporation. This building is a little over 224,000 square feet. We have roughly 900 employees here. And globally, we have about 2,200 employees. And we're doing business in over 80 countries. Right? So people come out here and they say, what are you doing in Waterloo? Right? And what do you tell them? I tell them, well, there's a great story behind that. Right? So I mean, had we just traveled 20 miles to the west, we'd be in Madison. Had we just gone 60 miles to the east, we'd be in Milwaukee. We have two founders. One from Madison. The other from Milwaukee. We're right in the middle. Right? So my version of the history of Trek, we were born off of fish fries in old fashions. Right? Because the two of them would meet at a supper club right outside of Waterloo. This is in the 70s. And Shwin was king. Right? So they wanted to bring to market high end, hand-braised, lugged touring and racing frames. Right? Well, they had the time and place to do this. Because once they decided they were going to make the bike frames, they had to decide whose garage they were going to rack. Right? Because you can imagine welding steel frames, painting them messy. Right? Who's going to drive from Madison to Milwaukee? Milwaukee to Madison. Those kind of things. So they found a carpet warehouse for sale here in Waterloo. We call it the barn. It's a little more romantic than calling it the carpet warehouse. And so we like to say we were born in a barn. It's neat because if you see it from one angle, it's green. And if you see it from the other angle, it's purple. Yeah. Oh, wow. Look at that. Right? And this bike right here belongs to Jens Voight. He wrote it this year in the Dirty Kanza. And that's a cool off-road gravel race in Kansas. And it has the actual dirt from the race. This is Jens Voight, the Shut Up Legs. Jens Voight Legend. Shut Up Legs. Shut Up Legs. Oh, climbing wall. Look at that. We've got on-site clinic that's focused on holistic care. So acupuncture, massage, therapy, chiropractic care. This is the World Psychocrats Championship course right here. Right there out the window. Out the window. You can kind of see where there's some mowings where they come down. So 18 years here at Trek, I have never parked my car in the park a lot for work. I have skied, snowshoed, and skateboarded to work. In addition to riding my bike. Primarily riding my bike back and forth. I feel like a kid in a candy store here. This is like my dream come true coming to a bike factory. And this is a fun fact. My very first bike, I saved up all my lawn mowing money and bought a Trek 8000. And that bike was the reason why I fell in love with biking, specifically mountain biking. And yeah, it's fun to be here at the mothership and see where it all started. Five times stronger than steel. Stronger in the direction of the fibers, right? So this is a woven piece of carbon. People think anything carbon is to see this, right? So these are woven. Strong, strong. But none on a 45. So when we get our carbon for a lot of our components frame build up, it's one direction. Right? Yeah. We put plus or minus 45s, zeros, 90s, and then we layer it. So we're able to build in the characteristics that we need. I'm not sure. And the weave is an important part. The weave is what I've been holding with the weave parts. Yeah. It fits better into smaller crevices, right? This is the preformed pieces to an Amanda SLR 10. And they've been run through a process of layering the carbon, run through a textile cutter that cuts out these preformed pieces. It gets made into the log, which is seedstay. Then from that it comes out. It gets weighed again. It gets written on the piece. Now it's written on there because it's a visual indicator. So it's in the parameters it needs to be to go to the next stage, which would be when it gets bonded together to a frame. Thank you, Jason. You're awesome. You're the man. We'll be back another day. Perfect. So a lot of the stuff in this factory cannot be filmed because it's top secret. It makes sense. This is kind of like the Willy Wonka factory of bikes. You know what I'm saying? What are we doing now, Jocelyn? We're going to eat in our little girl spot out here outside of our office. Yeah. What's up? What do you think about all this trekness? Yeah, it's awesome. It's really cool to see how our bikes were made and see the people who were making them. I also love looking at the history, looking at the old bikes and the bikes to come and seeing how they've changed and evolved and continue to evolve over time. Here's a fun fact about trek. They actually have their own watermelon garden and they supply 13% of the world's watermelons right here at Trek. That's not true. Oh yeah. There you go. Looking good, Mitch. Thank you so much my man. High five. You're welcome. He cleaned up all of our mud from Wyoming. Look at that. A new chain, new derailleur. Yeah. Can't wait to get these babies back on the road. Whoa. What is this? It's like chocolate chips, honey, oatmeal. It's a lot of good stuff. These are fresh out of the oven. They're so good. Jocelyn, you are number one. It has been so awesome coming here and visiting the Trek HQ, meeting everyone, connecting with them, seeing the process. They have taken such good care of us and nourished our bodies, tuned up our bikes, feeling really psyched to hit the road again and really grateful to have gotten to stop by and connect with the Trek family. Love you guys. And to meet Jocelyn in real life. Yeah. So Jocelyn here is the one that helped make this thing happen. Back in January, we talked about this ride when it was just going to be me and then I met Ally in March and I was like, I don't want to leave Ally for two months. And Jocelyn's like, well, why don't you bring her along? We like women on bikes. Exactly. This has been so incredible. You are the best. Seriously. Can't thank you enough on the bottom of our hearts. Thank you so much. Let's have a group hug over here. Jocelyn has hooked us up with everything today and now we have an extra special surprise. Check this place out. We get to stay in this mansion. Oh my God. This is so cool. This place is called Mansion Hill. What's the history behind it? Mansion Hill Inn was where the builder or architect of our state capital, he lived here and would use this observatory on the side to check on how construction was going at the capital. The really like, how did this end up being a part of the Trek family is that Trek is all about hospitality and welcoming people into our family like you guys have learned today. And we wanted a place to call our own to help people lay their heads when they come to visit. Oh man. Look at this place. What have we gotten ourselves into? We have ourselves some very luxurious accommodations here. Complete with fireplace just in case it gets chilly. This is where the magic happens. Oh man. That's a lot bigger than our tent. We could put our tent on top of this bed. What else do we have in here? We have not one but he's in case Ryan and I don't agree on the TV show. Yeah. Plenty of cabinetry for stuff. Yeah. Look at this old furniture, old books. Loving it. All right. Let's go to the next room. Yes, there is a next room ladies and gentlemen. Oh, we have our own couch. Hi. Robes. I love a robe. She does love robes. Oh, and look at this. This is like an arched ceiling in here. Welcome. Wow. This is a real flower. Put it in your hair. Put it in my hair. We're gonna leave it here until I will put it in my hair tomorrow. Wow. Look at this. I've never stayed in a hotel this nice in my life. Yeah. There's a lot of people who could fit in this shower. Let's see. Yeah. We could fit a lot of people in here for sure. I know this is a really nice room and we probably shouldn't jump on the beds but we have to. So. Thank you so much, Jocelyn and Trek and everybody in Madison. Madison has been really, really good to us. We're gonna sleep in so late we might just not get on our bikes tomorrow. Who knows? We are here in the lovely home of Keith and Karen. They've taken us in for a few days. Last night we went and checked out the World Record Guinness Book of World Records largest cheese board. I love cheese and since coming to Wisconsin we've eaten a bag of cheese curds, cheese sandwiches, cheesecake, cheese soup and now we're about to be a part of the world's record largest cheese board ever made. I'm excited to eat every single cheese and maybe I will make it out the other side but at school I died eating cheese not so bad. Now we're gonna get a little Guinness Book of World Records love advice. So you two have been together 42 years, raised two children and you seem to have a really beautiful relationship. You still walk down the street holding hands and I can't wait to hear what kind of advice you have for us. What would you tell us a new couple who wants to make things last? Don't stop trying to have wild crazy sex. Yes I like that one. Well you know when you're young what I call new love it's just a whole whirlwind of wild sex and raising babies and getting your kids to college and now it's just like a quiet calm sex and it's a quiet calm life but it's still nice to have wild crazy sex and there's good days and bad days and I'm going to quote my favorite singer Pink from her song True Love for your bad days at the same time I want to hug you I want to wrap my hands around your neck you're an asshole but I still love you you're the only love I've ever known. Well my response to that is her dad told me like the day before we got married he said do whatever you want she'll get over it in a couple days and of course he meant that within reason but it was really good advice and this is from a man who had seven daughters and you know that was probably how he survived but I think what he meant is that you really need to even though you obviously have to make compromise in a relationship you also have to be your own person and there are times you just have to do what you need to do you know and I think that helps for longevity. I think it's important to not only be lovers but to be friends and it's a friendship you know that really holds you together you know in the hard times the other thing is it never it's just constantly changing you know I mean it's up and down and up and down and especially maybe for guys you know you think well everything's fine but wham it's not you know suddenly something blinds eyes you so I want what I want when I want it so you're saying she's up and down and up and down and up and down and I know I am and he's used to it and he knows he knows when to leave me alone and he knows when to go to the cabin alone and leave me here or I go to the cabin alone sometimes we're still friends. I have know a ton of people from Wisconsin and you're kind of you have the reputation of like Canadians you're super nice like overly nice are you guys always this nice two strangers or to each other to each other usually yeah pretty nice I think what I find out there's you have to look into yourself you know like there's some some days that I don't like myself you know so how am I going to expect that Karen likes me you know so then I just kind of realize like you know just just realize what you're saying or thinking or take a walk or take a bike ride or you know work it out go swimming I go swimming all the time up here yeah you have to pay attention to each other I mean I know when he's going to have a quiet day I just know and so and it's not just the fact that he needs coffee before he can you know motate in the morning but just if he's going to have a quiet day we might go a whole day without hardly speaking and that's okay quiet it's okay it's that kind of comfortable silence it's just quiet