Originally Posted by Bruce Enns

I'd like some opinions on this item. I put a couple bids on this bike (e-bay item 140341037856) and after doing a bit more homework I'm glad I was outbid. The bike appears to be very clean with low miles, other than the right side seatstay sustained paint damage in shipping.

If you look at the sellers buying history you can see he bought it for a song a couple weeks ago and I assume the paint damage happened in shipment to him. The kicker is the s/n is listed as 215770 which makes it a 1985 standard 400 model (I own one), which is quite different than the 1986 400 Elance with 531 frame tubing.
This is basically just a rant but I'm rather sick and tired of the antics that go along with e-bay. I'm a big fan of the old steel Treks and I've found the s/n guide on the vintage trek web-site to be very accurate. This bikes s/n seems to be WAY out of line and not consistant with the information provided on the web-site.

With this bike addiction we all share I find it hard not to search e-bay for that "special" set of wheels to add to the stable. I should just order a new custom bike, that way I'll be to broke to consider buying used ones off e-bay.

I think I'll go for a bike ride, I'll feel better when I return.

Cheers