Originally Posted by Bicycle Bill

I own an original Trek frameset from the first year of production, back when they were only building and selling framesets. It's built of Reynolds 531 double-butted tubing throughout (forks and stays too), and has additional factory-installed braze-ons for a Blackburn rack, Campy down-tube shift levers, and water bottle cages. It also has eyelets on the dropouts for mounting fenders. I purchased this new in the winter of 1976 (I still have the original shop receipt!) and built it up over the off-season using a mixture of Japanese componentry (Sugino crank, Suntour derailleurs, Campy shift levers, Shimano Dura-Ace brakes, etc.), bringing it out onto the road that next season in time for the TOSRV in Ohio on Mother's Day weekend 1977. Since then it has seen something like 35K miles or more, including four or five more TOSRVs, 20 RAGBRAIs between 1978 and 2000, a couple of cross-state rides in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and countless shorter one-day events such as metric centuries and English centuries as well as club rides and on-my-own excursions, and is currently hanging on a rack in my home waiting for this ferschlugginer weather to improve so it can welcome 2015.

-"BB"-