You might try contacting Skip Echert at the Vintage Trek website.
Kim Carney
Davis, CA
> scottg wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
> In the late 70s Trek made a 300 series frame from plain high-carbon
> steel.
>
> --
> John (john@os2.dhs.org)
> Appleton WI USA