1979 Trek Lighthouse
 

Why?

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That looks like a 510 with some nice components and a lighthouse.

Perhaps the previous owner had a lighthouse fetish?

Perhaps the previous owner thought that if a lighthouse safeguarded ships, why not bikes?

Who the heck knows but this is weird.

This sucker is brazed to the frame right?

We need a thread for really weird mods to a bike like this.

:wtf: I could see those birds making a big gash on my clumsy thighs!

I had never heard of a Trek light house, so I was intrigued when I opened the thread. Then, I thought that that lighthouse was on the wall. Now I see that it is actually welded to the frame!

That bike has some nice upgrades to it. Is that a TA crankset. I hadn't seen Matthouser (sp?) brake pads in a long time too. And it has Suntour bar con shifters.

Yeah, what he said. :popcorn

YO DAWG, THAT TREK IS LIT!

PS - think that front mech may've been maladjusted for a bit?

Now it's more laterally stiff and vertically compliant.

Many things about this bike are maladjusted :)

One of the religious orders, Morman or Jehovah Witness have a publication called The Lighthouse. Maybe?

Looks like the lighthouse could be removed with some judicious hacksawing, filing, sanding and touch-up paint and then you'd be back in darkness again.

Speaking of weird mods, I knew a guy who drilled a hole down through the top tube of a Serotta Titanium SuperTourer right in front of the seat tube so he could glue in a brass wood screw to act as a pump peg. That's not the weirdest bike thing he did.

This beacon is a trek towards the main triangle of this bike for those that can see the light. Not for the faint of art.

-Kurt