Bicycle Mechanics - Trek 7200 Crank Upgrade

Hi folks,

Thanks in advance for your words of wisdom, sarcasm, & other posts. All are enjoyed equally.
My lady has a Trek 7200 (no giggles please she likes it.) whose crank is quite gone. I'm not sure what year it is. I suspect it's about 4 years old, so it's a shimano c201 riveted together crank, with whatever the stock BB is.
I need to replace it, all the LBS's are buried so I'm hoping somebody can tell me a bolt on replacement crank, or a reasonable (not horribly expensive, I have hopes of getting her on something different at some point) Crank, BB upgrade. Yes I'll spend the extra money if it's a good choice. Yup she likes the "Guard" that's on the 201 (come to think of it I get tired of marks on my leg too :rolleyes: ) So that would be prefered, but not vital. Any suggestions for putting a real fork on one of these as well? If I can't ween her off it, I can probaby get her off the unecessary suspension fork.


Tromper
Edmonds, WA

Nashbar has several house brand cranks in both MTB and road configuration that are very inexpensive. Here's one for only $45 that sounds like just what you are looking for:

http://www.nashbar.com/profile.cfm?category=130&subcategory=1176&brand=&sku=13771&storetype=&estoreid=&pagename=

You may need a different length bottom bracket but try the current one first.

I swapped out the original crank on my trek 7300 ( i think it was a shimano Nexave) with a bontrager select 26/36/48. I had to replace the BB also to maintain proper chainline. I think put a truvativ 73x118 on it if I remember correctly.

I'd try to hunt down a used MTB crankset with life left in the chainrings and buy a new bottom bracket.

The whole thing is worth about $40 and as good a new $100 set up.