Richard Burke, Founder of Trek Bicycle Company, Is Dead at 73

[lsanderson]

By DENNIS HEVESI
Published: March 13, 2008

Richard Burke, a founder of the Trek Bicycle Corporation, which capitalized on the luster of Lance Armstrong’s victories in the Tour de France to reshape the way top-of-the-line bikes are manufactured, died Monday in Milwaukee. He was 73 and lived in Milwaukee.