Originally Posted by
j3ffr3y
I just bought a 90s trek 2200 carbon with full campy (hubs, cranks, dérailleurs, brakes etc.) for $120. It's been totally neglected, just stripping it down right now to clean it up. Brake levers/shifters might be broken, haven't really had time to work on it yet.
The rear hub has nothing on it, but it does have a campagnolo cassette and mavic open pro rim, front hub is campy. everything seems in ok shape, its just dirty as hell. Stem is deda threaded (ugly one). No seatpost, no saddle, flat handlebars with weird mounting of the brake levers.
So, what do you think?
Steal seems to be a strong word. You got a 15 plus year old glued together frame with Carbon tubes and Aluminum lugs, builtin an era, where frame builders were still working to solve galvonic corrossion issues.
The Campy components are likely low end, either Veloce or Stratos.
To make the bike rideable you're looking at a seatpost, seat, cables, tires, tubes, chain, likely cassette, brake levers, and shifters. And to make it a road bike, new handlebars.
You're going to spend a lot more than you paid for the bike to get it into decent shape, and you'll have a bike with a questionable frame and crappy old parts.
The $400 you'll easily have in this bike could have gotten you a new Bikes Direct Bike, or a solid used steel or aluminum bike of more recent vintage.
All that said, you can have fun with your new project, but "steal" isn't the word I'd use.