There is a lovely Trek 330 on Ebay, that looks like it might go for very little. It is Ot in that it is probably from the late 80's and has Suntour indexed 7 speeds. However this brings up an on topic subject. If you look up the Trek catalogues from the 80's you will see that Trek has unashamedly quoted their bike weights at 23.6 to a low of 23.2 lbs. Now these frames are 531 db tubing with special trek seat, fork and chainstays. These bikes have lightweight alloy parts to boot. My understanding is that if you have a 531 frame with Reynolds fork stays, chainstays and seatstays and equip the bike with even fair quality alloy groupos, the result is a bike that weighs under 22 lbs in all the normal sizes. How was Trek able to produce these bikes with frames that weighed in at least one or two pounds more then you would imagine? How much weight additional could the chainstays and the like make in a Trek bike? How much money could be saved by specing Trek stays over Reynolds?
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