Originally Posted by
jPrichard10
I love the aesthetic of 70s Treks too much to mismatch headbadges. I would totally do this with some other Frankenbike. Schwinn branding looks like garbage to me, even if they made some very nice bikes, so I would have no regrets about slapping something else on there.
I'm not saying this would be profitable... classic bike restoration rarely is. But it does seem like something that someone thought would be profitable (or so much a passion project that they lied to themselves).
There are some really spectacular head badges on some vintage bikes -- I must confess I've never considered Trek's badges to be all that swell, design-wise. Lovely bikes, though, and I understand the desire to keep a bike "all-original" if you're into doing that (as I sort of am on some bikes), but I do smile every time I see the "funky" Loco Star Amsterdam head badge on my '76 Schwinn Paramount (which was repainted by someone else, probably in the 1980s or 1990s)
