>From: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
>The thing that I find amazing (I think - please correct me if i'm
>wrong) - is that TREK never made any plain CARBON STEEL bikes.
>Perhaps it was by necessity, due to the cost of manual brazing in
>wisconsin, but even the lowest-end treks had chromoly tubing.
>Can the TREXPERTS tell me if TREK ever made an unbutted frameset?
I had a probable Trek 412 from '79, was marked Ishiwata 022 main tubes, with Ishiwata butted Hi-Ten stays and fork blades. One the the low trail Treks, somewhat unnerving on fast descents.
Scott Goldsmith
Milford, Ohio, USA