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Old 11-21-22, 01:03 PM
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vintage-trek.com appears to be gone

I went looking for the component dates page on vintage-trek.com. The site appears to be gone (redirects to the hosting service). Hopefully it will be back.

Fortunately, it seems the page I wanted is in the Wayback Machine. Here's from earlier this month:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221101...nent_dates.htm

Here's the serial number page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221031...ialNumbers.htm
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Old 11-21-22, 01:06 PM
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Ugh, use them all the time. They have all the Lemond catalogs too
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Old 11-21-22, 01:12 PM
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Could be worth mentioning on CABE or Paceline, as the webmaster/owner is likely active there as well. It could be the owner does not know there is an issue.
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Originally Posted by smontanaro
Fortunately, it seems the page I wanted is in the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221101...nent_dates.htm
Thanks. I just downloaded this page so I'll always have it.
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Old 11-21-22, 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by noobinsf
Could be worth mentioning on CABE or Paceline, as the webmaster/owner is likely active there as well. It could be the owner does not know there is an issue.
I saw the owner's email address. I sent a message. It didn't bounce, so hopefully he received it.
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Nooooooo

I hope they're back soon.
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Old 11-21-22, 04:44 PM
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I discovered that today. I really hope very hard that it's back up soon. I'm trying to date & spec what looks like a very old Trek MultiTrack on CL for stupid cheap.

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Somebody mentioned it in a Facebook group I am in. The poster seemed to know the owner of the website and he has not been responding to emails. At least not as of this weekend.
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Originally Posted by beicster
Somebody mentioned it in a Facebook group I am in. The poster seemed to know the owner of the website and he has not been responding to emails. At least not as of this weekend.
Does he have an independent email for them, e.g., Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo? If the email is at the domain of the site, it won't reach them if the hosting has expired.

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Old 11-21-22, 07:29 PM
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Oh, this is not good
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You know, I use that site a lot too. Hopefully, he’ll hear from us and if we can help, a lot of us will.
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Originally Posted by cudak888
Does he have an independent email for them, e.g., Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo? If the email is at the domain of the site, it won't reach them if the hosting has expired.

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I went looking for the post yesterday and could not find it. I’ll try again today. I was in a hurry yesterday.
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This is what I found.

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Originally Posted by beicster
This is what I found.

That site is a wonderful resource, I just hope the guy who ran it is ok.

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I found a phone number for the vintage-trek.com owner. Hopefully it is a cell number. I sent a text. 🤞
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Vintage Trek is probably one of the best vintage catalog sites to navigate. Hopefully it will be saved because I use it a lot.
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I haven't really used that site in quite awhile, but it's obviously a national treasure, that we need to protect & preserve. Let's all hope (& pray if applicable) the guy who's missing gets himself found, and stays in good shape. 🤔😉✌️
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Oh no. This site helped in the purchase of my Trek 957...and even further back with the 9xx series mountain bikes. I hope it is resolved soon!
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It has lots of entries on the wayback machine, so worst case the content is all discoverable.
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Old 11-22-22, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by ldmataya
It has lots of entries on the wayback machine, so worst case the content is all discoverable.
Though as I was reminded earlier today (offline), the Wayback Machine is not indexed by search engines. After a site is gone for awhile, the major search engines will remove it from their indexes, removing the subtle hint that you can go to Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine to find the disappeared content. You basically have to know what you're looking for. You can no longer discover it.
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Originally Posted by smontanaro
I found a phone number for the vintage-trek.com owner. Hopefully it is a cell number. I sent a text. 🤞
The name at the bottom of the vintage trek matches a name I recalled from the CR group. I quit that list the same day that I left the IBOB list, but assume you could still search the archive for his email address.
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Retrobike Trek catalog link: https://www.retrobike.co.uk/gallery2...ek/Catalogues/

Having the catalogs still online somewhere else is cool, but the part of vintagetrek I used the most was their model/year/color text database since it could narrow a search quickly.
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Has anyone heard from Skip to see if he's OK?

It's been quite a while since I've talked to him.
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Originally Posted by beech333
The name at the bottom of the vintage trek matches a name I recalled from the CR group. I quit that list the same day that I left the IBOB list, but assume you could still search the archive for his email address.
Good suggestion, however... The only email I can find for him (Skip Echert) is skip@skipechert.com. That was his Classic Rendezvous email address as well. The echert.com domain is also quarantined by his hosting provider.

Interestingly enough, I stumbled on his announcement of the Vintage Trek website in the old CR archives:

https://www.smontanaro.net/CR/2001/09/0708
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I posted a quick inquiry regarding Skip on the Classic Rendezvous list. Hopefully someone there will have been in touch with him and know how he's doing.
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