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.
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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA