>> I remember seeing a few of the first Trek road bikes come into the shop
>> around 1980 I think. They left me with a bad impression, which hasn't
>> gone away much since then.
While we're on the subject I'm wondering if anyone can help me ID my wife's Trek frame and fork. We bought it 2 years ago from a guy in Eugene, Oregon who was the 50th owner or something. Anyway the only thing I know about the frame is it's 531 with Campy dropouts front and rear with a single eyelet. TREK is cast into the seatstay caps, but there's no bosses for shifters and the cables run on the top of the BB. The SR# is on the BB and is F1F6428 (the "F"s could be "E"s).
I know this is an earlier one but was suprised when I went to repaint it and found some problems. After sandblasting the frame I was inspecting it and found 3 different paces with incomplete brazing, one one the upper headtube lug, one at the seattube to BB juncture, and the last one on rear brake bridge. I was kinda shocked since I had just finished reading an interview with Joe Stark in the Riv Reader and he talked all about Trek's quality control. Anyway it's all better now with a beautiful new, now year old, paintjob.
thanks, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
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