Vintage Trek serial number?
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Vintage Trek serial number?
What can you tell me about my vintage Trek with serial number Thanks
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Vintage Trek Bikes- Information on Steel Road Bicycles made by the Trek Bicycle Corporation, bike
https://vintage-trek.com/SerialNumbers.htm
https://vintage-trek.com/SerialNumbers.htm
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Looks like a model 310 made in 78 according to the vintage trek site.
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My frame looks like this one except for color and is built with Reynolds 531:
https://veloclassics.blogspot.com/201....html?spref=pi
https://veloclassics.blogspot.com/201....html?spref=pi
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Help us out; post some pics. Both of the entire bike/frameset, and some detail shots.
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My frame looks like this one except for color and is built with Reynolds 531:
Velo Classics: Trek Frameset
Velo Classics: Trek Frameset
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I'm quite confident it is a 750 but the serial number date of 1978 and the A prefix don't fit in with the normal serial number pattern. Is it possible a 750 was made in 1978? My understanding is that the 750 was designed by Tim Isaak and he wasn't hired until 1979 according to the Trek timeline.
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Compare the geometry against the specs in the 1981 catalog. Perhaps its a custom with an odd serial number?
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I'm quite confident it is a 750 but the serial number date of 1978 and the A prefix don't fit in with the normal serial number pattern. Is it possible a 750 was made in 1978? My understanding is that the 750 was designed by Tim Isaak and he wasn't hired until 1979 according to the Trek timeline.
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I measured and the seat tube is between the numbers shown. Mine is 57, stock is 56 and 59. This measurement varying from the stock specifications, along with the apparently strange serial number, may indicate a custom frame.
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