trek 170 frame repaint?

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09-14-15 | 09:04 AM

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OldsCOOL

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Originally Posted by Chriscraft760

There is a 170 frame set up as a fixie on the bay right now. Buy it now for $1,700. It's a red color and too small for me. Are these frames really worth that much?

If you can document/confirm by the serial number, yes. If that fixie frame had a dremel job, no.

09-14-15 | 10:30 AM

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Maybe for an original in very good condition...have to watch to see if anybody bites.

09-14-15 | 10:37 AM

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Just saw it....being a track bike...good luck...but for a collector, maybe...it was owned and raced by known professional. Small market for that one.

09-14-15 | 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by OldsCOOL

If you can document/confirm by the serial number, yes. If that fixie frame had a dremel job, no.

Would the bike have had down shifter tube braze-ons?

09-14-15 | 11:47 AM

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Would the bike have had down shifter tube braze-ons?

Yes, if it is a 170.

09-14-15 | 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Chriscraft760

There is a 170 frame set up as a fixie on the bay right now. Buy it now for $1,700. It's a red color and too small for me. Are these frames really worth that much?

Do you have a link? I'm not finding it easily and am not interested in buying it so I'm not willing to put much time into looking. But since I was one of the three people who built those frames, I might have some insight.

Edit: never mind, I just found it. It's the Real Thing, but it was a team frame (for the 1984 US Women's Cycling Team), not a production frame. Production 170s were all road frames; no track frames were built for non-team customers. The components are not be original (we would have send them out with a Campagnolo Pista group, not road pedals or Dura-Ace crank, for example), but are of appropriate era and quality.

Last edited by JohnDThompson; 09-14-15 at 04:31 PM.