My son was heading back to college, and was pleading with me to take my old road bike instead of the old mountain bike back to school with him. I really really didn't want him taking my all Campy 1975 Motobecane Grand Record, even if it is beat to heck from far too many miles all those years ...

so I started sniffing the local CL... Finally, on Sunday, this trek tx300 showed up for $200. its a nicely repainted frame, with a few old shimano 600 bits, and some 90s bits. nice set of wheels on deore hubs with some nice mavic hard anodized 700c rims, 7 speed cassette. bars and stem are period SR/Sakae Custom, and the crankset is an old cold forged Specialized track set with a 144mm bolt circle, sporting 52:42 chainwheels.

anyways, I swapped the pedals (I wanted the vintage toeclip pedals, Ian wanted SPD), seats (saved good condition Turbo seat and put on a old Specialized Milano), swapped the cassette from 12-22 to 12-28 (Arcata is hilly), retaped the bars, new brake cables and brake pads.

I didn't save the before picture, but here's the after ...



hey, anyone seen this SR Custom seatpost design before? kind of interesting, the tilt is infinitely adjustable, you have to loosen two 13mm nuts on the inside of the seatpost, and these sideplates pivot on a axle..


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