How well have you all taught me?
06-02-16, 10:16 AM
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How well have you all taught me?
https://denver.craigslist.org/bik/5609985362.html
So I click on this ad for a "mid seventies trek 531". This makes no sense until I realize the seller is probably looking at a Reynolds sticker and thinking this is the model. Now I'm curious, what is this bike? I could email the seller, but I don't really plan on buying it so I won't. Instead I'll use the three crappy pictures, the resources I've learned of here and make a guess. Color, graphics ahs 531 lead me to a 1983 600 model.
Anyone care to check my work?
So I click on this ad for a "mid seventies trek 531". This makes no sense until I realize the seller is probably looking at a Reynolds sticker and thinking this is the model. Now I'm curious, what is this bike? I could email the seller, but I don't really plan on buying it so I won't. Instead I'll use the three crappy pictures, the resources I've learned of here and make a guess. Color, graphics ahs 531 lead me to a 1983 600 model.
Anyone care to check my work?
06-02-16, 10:23 AM
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I had '83 Trek 600 in that color with those decals with 531 main tubes. Nice bike.
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06-02-16, 10:37 AM
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Haven't taught you well enough, apparently. Too much typing, not enough running to buy for ~$200. 
(But yeah, you seem to have spotted a well-camoflaged gem amongst the usual CL horrors.)
(But yeah, you seem to have spotted a well-camoflaged gem amongst the usual CL horrors.)
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06-02-16, 10:43 AM
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Did they make 700 series bikes in that color that year as well?
Brakes look like replacements to dual-pivots. May mean that the wheels have been converted to 700c.
The Brian Wilkins' bike is way cooler. Buy that one.
Brakes look like replacements to dual-pivots. May mean that the wheels have been converted to 700c.
The Brian Wilkins' bike is way cooler. Buy that one.
06-02-16, 10:53 AM
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The rather distant, non-drive side pictures make precise identification difficult, but the two-tone paint suggests mid-80s production rather than 70s the seller claims. My guess would be a 6nn series frame. If you can get a serial number from the seller, you can look it up on vintage-trek.com
06-02-16, 10:55 AM
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And yeah, I want that Wilkins so badly it hurts but I'm budget conscious, just went from four to six cycles in a short period and have nothing to sell off to offset the price. I might ask my wife her opinion. She is a more profligate spender than I.
