RE: [CR]Name that period, history of the bicycle...

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Subject: RE: [CR]Name that period, history of the bicycle...
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:02:15 -0500
Thread-Topic: [CR]Name that period, history of the bicycle...
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From: "Bingham, Wayne R." <WBINGHAM@imf.org>
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Eugene Powell wrote:
>>> You know people still insist on a color match to repaint their old "rancid Pepto-Bismal pink" Trek (all SR, columbus tubed, 770?) !?<<<

And John Thompson responded:
>>>Don't you mean "970?" IIRC, the 7xx series were Reynolds 531, and the 9xx series were Colombus. But I probably worked on that bike; most of the early 80's 770 and 970 frames passed through me at one time or another.<<<

I think Eugene was right about everything but the Columbus tubes, as Bob also noted. The 770s were all 531c, as far as I know. And it was easy to determine the year by the color I have an 84 770 (well, it was really my wife's) that was originally Aqua. It's also pictured on the vintage Trek site, but it's not Aqua anymore:

http://www.vintage-trek.com/Trek_galleryWB770.htm

It's identified as an '85, but is really an '84. The 85 was pink and the catalogs showed an '86 770 as a frameset in yellow, but I don't ever remember seeing one.

John - maybe you can answer something that I've always wondered. In those model years, was the 760 frame the same frame with different colors and graphics, and a different group spec'd? I have an '84 760 (in purple with red graphics), and it looks pretty close.

Wayne Bingham
Lovettsville VA