Trek Professional Teams' Liaison Ben Coates pulled off the near impossible this week.  He corralled hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of team clothing, Bontrager components and Trek frames, put it all on a semi-tractor trailer truck then pointed the Trek west towards the team camp in Albuquerque, NM.

It's been an enormous task to get a world-class team set up with all new gear.  Ben had to assemble a crew of designers, painters, engineers and component buyers to get things done.  The events that have happened here at Trek over the past 6 months are appreciated by the Astana team but few really know what it took to get this to happen.  Bravo, Ben.

Ben will meet up with the truck early next week at about the same time that the Astana team staff arrives.  The mechanics will start assembling bikes and the soigneurs will sort the clothing.  Ben should have more inside info during the camp so check his blog out when you can.

The truck.

The gear (that's Trek engineer Mark Andrews double checking some frame parts).

Loading up.

Securing the load.

After the truck set sail for NM, Ben threw a beer and pizza party for the crew that helped him pull the delivery off. 

The Project-One painters check out an Astana TTX.

The crew that made the delivery of Astana team parts possible.  Thanks guys!