Originally Posted by No_Minkah
I can add that he told me the name of the shop in Florida where he got them, where his friend works, but I can't remember the name. He told me about that he also has "an old trek, one of the original aluminum ones", and that he had it at Cycle Smithy having the braze-ons getting dremelled off. Not stuff wino thieves tend to know about, in my opinion.
Check out the story about the Aluminum Trek. If that's true, it does add
some validity to his story.