no sweat

I bought the frame new.

Stop laughing!!

This was back before Trek even built complete bikes. Just a few guys with a machine shop in WI and an ad in Bicycling magazine.

I crashed my Motobecane Grand Touring that Summer, pretty well mangling the fork and frame (I was 17, I just bounced, not even a scratch), so I ordered this. Reynolds 531DB and the long wheelbase touring geometry. It's been a frankenbike from the get go, which is too bad because it really deserved better. It was unridden from about 1996 to 2014, then did a brief stint as a flat bar road bike as I was in the process of getting back to fitness. Now it has hand me downs from my 2002 Litespeed, on which I just installed a new groupset and wheels. So current equipment is ultegra 6500 crank, BB, rear derailleur, cassette, Rolf Vector wheels with 35m slicks (this is my dirt road bike), 1970s Cinelli stem and handlebars, Campy downtube friction shifters, Suntour (remember them?) front derailleur, Tektro long reach dual pivot calipers, Suntour Superbe levers.

The frame is too damned tall for me -- my excuse was that I thought I was still growing when I bought it. I thought wrong. But the length is just right since I am a long torso body type.

Shown here in Franconia Notch. Overcast day, perfect for a long ride.

OldsCOOL

That is serious C&V stuff. No laughing here. That is too cool. Make sure to post that up in the C&V!