[CR]Re: Stainless Trek

(Example: Framebuilding:Brazing Technique)

From: <EdVintage63@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:25:35 EST
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: Stainless Trek

In a message dated 11/8/2004 2:41:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org writes:


> Trek made a paintless, silver brazed, stainless steel frame for one of
> the bike shows in the early 1980s. Reynolds actually made us several
> sets of double-butted stainless steel tubing for the project. It was
> featured on the cover of Bicycling Magazine at the time. It never went
> into production, though.
>

I believe I ran across a photo of that frame in on of the Trek catelogs on the vintage Trek site recently whilst researching a bike I just purchased. If anyone's interested is checking it out, it was probably from '84 or '85.

Ed Granger
Lancaster, PA