I've had an old '83 Trek 520 sitting around that needed some TLC, so I sent it up to Matt Assenmacher for a little tweaking and a repaint. There were a couple of pea-sized dents under the down tube by the DT shifter braze on tab that needed repaired. I had Matt set the rear drops to 130, add 700C canti posts, DT shifter braze ons, and a hanger bracket for the rear canti. It's been repainted in a rich, bold orange with a liberal dose of pearl in the clear coat and it's flat-out gorgeous to me.

At 63cm it's a bit on the large size for me and a tall friend just happened by while I was unpacking the frame and fork and as soon as he saw it he called 'dibs, double-dibs, you have to sell it to me!!' I won't be building it up myself, but my friend is fairly beside himself scheming how it's going to look after he gets done with it.

As always, my photographic skills are not improving with age, but I hope you can see and appreciate Matt's work.







Full-size and more pics here:

http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/j...and%20Painted/