Breathing new life into a 13 year-old bike...
10-27-20, 12:48 PM
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Breathing new life into a 13 year-old bike...
I recently built a single speed and have been riding that all summer but I also had an old (2007?) Trek 1500 laying around... After riding the single speed I have grown to really like the frame size (55) and the 60 of the Trek just wasn’t doing it for me anymore. So I acquired a new frame (54) and basically tore the Trek down, dismantling and cleaning every component as I did it, and transferred everything over to the new frame. Finally finished getting everything transferred/adjusted and took her for an inaugural test ride today. Of course it decided to snow this morning so unfortunately I will mostly be using this on the trainer but so far I love it and was an awesome inexpensive refresh to the old bike!
The old.
The new!
The old.
The new!
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10-27-20, 01:17 PM
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Frame is new along with new drops (bent the drops in a crash a couple years ago). Went from Aluminum w/ carbon fork to full carbon frame. In the short time that I rode it outside there seems to be a huge difference in the feel of the two frames!
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Oy! ....yes...this^
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I think I pretty much just got the wrong sized frame back when I bought the trek 13 years ago... I rode it a lot, even riding a century with it back in the day but I think I am just more comfortable on a smaller frame :dunno:
Wanted to do a cheap experiment with this and see how the smaller frame would work with the old components so I found a pretty much new china carbon frame locally.
Regarding the quick release levers, I thought something felt weird when I was putting the wheels on
These have since been changed!
