Trek 970 clean-up
 

Recently got this 970.
First I've had, very nice and light bike.
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Really nice job and great bike. I love old MTBs. By and large, they're not worth much compared to road bikes but they're fine versatile machines.

Very nice clean up. What did you use? Soapy water, polish, etc?

Citrus base degreaser( very mild) and Spartan wood polish.

Really nice work! I have an 89' 950 and it is a great bike. It was suprisingly light when I weighed it, about 26lbs.

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That cleaned up great! What works the best for re attaching the badges to these Treks?

I have some thin 3m double sided tape. Not sure of the number.

Then we are on the same page.

Cleaned up very nicely but one question.

How the heck is the fork staying in the headset in the 2nd "cleaned" picture of just the frame? Should it not... fall? You don't even have the upper bearings or cone on.

I've always like the 900 series of bikes from Trek. I think we have a 950 with suspension at the shop right now. Very nice bike. Very few miles.

Wow. Nice top end MTB for the pinnacle of the fully rigid era! Usonian made too!
@bikemig - FWIW, In my neck of the woods, the days of buying nice vintage MTB's for a song is over. Over $1000 is not unusual for a vintage Stumpjumper or something. If you can still buy them cheap you are lucky.

You really don't want to know then what I'm paying for vintage MTBs, : ) The asking prices are inching up a bit but not the selling prices.

Really?.... Really?

We sell vintage stuntjumpers for $100 at the coop.

Vintage MTBs really aren't worth that much unless they're in "like new" condition or were something special "Fat Chance", maybe a super early "Fisher."

Wow, actual Stumpies? Maybe I should take a road trip to Bozeman. :) You might find an old Hard Rock or something for that price, but not a Stumpjumper, at least not normally.

That was the case here to maybe 10 years ago, but it has changed. I'm sure some folks still get a lucky deal.

Black magic....
Or maybe a black rubber band :)

Yeah. We've definitely sold quite a few stunt jumpers for around that price. We definitely had one a month or so ago when we also had a "street stomper." I know that because I put them side by side to compare the graphics. (The street stomper and stunt jumper graphics look very... very similar. So much so that all of us thought the bike was a stunt jumper until we looked very carefully.)

The thing is, for most people, they're just old mountain bikes. There really isn't anything special about the stunt jumpers (they weren't the first, and today they aren't really... comparable to modern bikes), and no one is going to buy a 20-30 year old bike that's been clearly used for any decent price. We sell most rigid old mountain bikes for $100-$160. If it has a front suspension fork, that could go up to $180. I don't recall ever selling an old mountain bike for more than that. (Unless full suspension or newer.) I mean heck, we GIVE AWAY beat up vintage mountain bikes. (Much to my dismay.) We have a super cool green univega something or other at the shop right now that's being given away to somebody who needs it or sold for $100. I think the bike is super cool, personally.

That said, we do have a really early Fisher at the shop that is in immaculate condition. Despite being a hard-tail, we'll probably ask a few hundred for it. (Once we can get the crank off of it to fix the BB. The threads are stripped, and we can't grab it with a gear puller, and we don't want to do the usual "hammer a pickel fork between the BB and crank" for fear of damaging the frame. We're thinking of making a tool with "hooks" to grab the 5 arms of the spider securely.)

"We sell vintage stuntjumpers for $100 at the coop."

Stuntjumper?

Fantastic job. These pop up all the time on craigslist near me being in Trek's backyard and it's hard not to buy them each time.

If you see a small one for a reasonable price, let me know!

Sweet Bike!

I've seen some of these 900 series bikes totally pimped out!

Deore DX and XT is great stuff!

I'm not a mountain bike guy, but man, that looks fantastic! Beautiful work! Makes me think it shouldn't get dirty again it looks so pretty. :)

used to have a 930, if it hadnt been too small i would still have it.

Beautiful 970, it really pops in that color.

Trek 9xx usually go for $100-150 around here. I was lucky to get a nice lugged 930 for $40 with flat tires out at the edge of town.

I have seen high priced examples stay on Craigslist for a long time. They should be worth more but they just don't seem to bring the $$.

Those make excellent full-on touring bikes. I rebuilt a 930 with all Campy (what can I say, I am a Campy bigot) and it is a delight to ride.