Originally Posted by luker
A cooincidence indeed. I pulled my '77 trek down yesterday and rode it with a group - it performed very well. Mr. Appel should be proud. Where did you hear that he was back at Trek?
I read it on the "classicrendezvous"-mailing list somewhere... ah there it is:
http://search.bikelist.org/getmsg.as...10608.0603.eml
also in the archives is that the framebulders at Trek used to stamp their work individually by stamping in a small letter next to the frame nr., so it should be possible to find out if a certain steel lugged Trek was brazed by Appel.