That's funny, I picked up a 99 Escape A7.5 on Saturday. It's a new frame, unbuilt, for single speed.

Well it only took 4 years for someone to notice ( how anal are you), also the correct spelling of my name is Glennfordx4 since we are correcting spelling mistakes and all. I hate grammar police so I do a lot of it on purpose, I am not a writer I'm a mechanic and I have bigger things to worry about then to make sure everything I type is term paper quality. I mean look at what you typed THAT IS whats up with the word IS, it shouldn't be there. Please don't take the tone of my reply two hart I am just busting chops here. Yes I typed two on purpose.

Glenn

Yes all my bikes are jammed into a tiny space.

Glenn,

I just noticed something about my Hozan that's different from yours and Sixty Fiver's... mine uses two large machined steel 'pins' that
grab the inside of the axle. They both slip out of the wheel support and leave a hollow shaft behind; I think it's for use with nutted
axles. I'll take some pics and post them into this reply.

Mine also wobbles a bit because the center shaft that supports the stand is loose; I need to find someone that can tack weld the shaft
tight.

Alan

I was being the ominous forums a-hole. I understand you don't need everything to be of article quality, nor am I one to speak on such matters. However this isn't everything, this is your signature which has been repeated 1k times and counting now. Also, I am from your neck of the woods originally and I do think that stuff reflects on the awesome education crisis they are in right now. I do appreciate your grammatical satire however and as pointed out in previous post, this is all in good fun. Believe me. If you read my website, the old school nun with a yardstick would be having a blast on my hands for all of the grammar mistakes. But nobody reads MY website. Despite the more than 100k visits on a monthly basis.

I am going to machine some inserts on the lathe for my Hozan with pins for through axles that slip in and out... will machine a little shoulder on the insert.

no pics yet as Id be surprised if anyone actually kept up w/this thread but.... in the past 3 weeks I saved 2 bikes from the same dumpster in my complex. the first is a 93 specialized hard rock sport ($300 new), perfectly ridable, didnt even need the deraileurs adjusted but it did cost me $15 for a seatpost and $10 for some grips.
the second one is an 02 gary fisher mamba ($275 new) this one can use the wheels trued and it needs a crank as the pedal threads are stripped. probably a $25-$35 investment.
one is definitely going to my sister inlaw, once she decided which one she wants, the other is a freebee to the first person I know who wants it...I just couldnt let them go

Got to go into a Barn in the southern shore here in Nova Scotia today. Picked up two Canadian Peugeot 10 speeds and salvaged what was any what decent from the junk pile. A blue Mixte and a black mens, both with peugeot branded simplex and a peugeot branded crank, peugeot branded weinmann centerpulls and the mixte has weinmann levers.







Also looks like I got a brand new 700x32 tire.



The box of junk containing a mattress saddle in pretty good shape, a pair of wingnuts, couple of quick release seatpost bolts, shimano fingertip shifters, a weird centerpull like sidepull brake that has a headlight and bottle generator attached, and a generator tail light, some rubber block pedals and christophe toe clips.



But these are the things I was most pleased with!



These cool stylish little mini fenders with crossbow center pulls. Anyone know anything about them? One of them is a little dented, but I will be using them on the mixte, and turning it into a dress clothes city bike. So chainguard with either a 3 speed, or a 5 speed with derailleur and no FD.



Also found this lonely brake lever, too bad I couldn't find his partner.

Toilet paper holder.
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Picked this up for the parts despite it being too big for me. Always appreciated high quality Treks.

I saw an old-timer cruising the neighborhood on a Trek 700 just the other day. Great looking all built up.

What year is that frame?

1984. It's when Trek starting going with funkier colors.

Funny that when I started taking some inventory decided that I had nearly full groups of the 600 tri colour and NR so tonight I started converting my Ron Cooper from it's Cyclone Mk2 and Zeus bits to be NR equipped (yes... hell has frozen over) and although I took a little weight penalty, the Record high flange hubs laced to the GP4 tubbies should offset that once I glue up some new tubulars. Think I will keep the Zeus centre pull brakes as they are just that incredibly good.

Scored a beautiful set of tri colour cassette hubs today so once I lace these up to some 28 spoke rims the Proctor will undergo a conversion to a full 600 tri-colour group... just need some 600 brakes and levers to replace the Superbe / Modolo set up and some 8 speed indexed shifters as I have the rest of the group.

Thats pretty! 60 or a 62cm?
I have really gotten into the early 80's steel Treks.
You going to sell the frame?
Any chance you are in the SE?

Every spring the University students move out of their residences and discard a great deal of stuff from bicycles, to furniture, to virtually new mini fridges.

So now my shop has hot and cold running water from my cooler and if that isn't refreshing enough, there is beer chilling in the new fridge beneath it.

Quite a few of my customers tip me with icy hoppy beverages so now I have a good place to keep that and is a nice set up when you are coming or going as one can always top up their water bottles.

Congrats on finding a really nice 84 760, as you already know that was their top of the line racing bike. I have an 84 660 and love it. I bought the 660 in 84 as a frame and fork and then had Suntour Superbe components slapped on. I'm not sure if you're wanting to put on the factory original components or not but the Vintage Trek site has a listing of all the components that came on that bike. For the most part Trek used Suntour Superbe Pro components which are expensive to find on E-Bay. Restoring to original specs would make the bike worth more, but the cost of buying the components may push past it's worth as far as reselling. I don't know what your plans are for the frame, but it is a great frame, and it appears to be in great shape. My 660 is paint and decals are beat to hell from 20 years of riding in the Southern California sun.

Nice find Sixty!

I have to wait three more years for my daughter to graduate from college, but then I'll have a beer fridge too... I'm really looking forward to her college graduation.

It will be nice to see more pics of that when it's all cleaned up, Chuck. It's pretty cool that it came all the way from a little shop in Paris to you.

A friend who appreciates my appreciation for the relic bikes called today with some treasures. 2 Peugeot mixte bikes, a repro-Stingray Krate (kinda cool...turns out he traded 2 beers for it from a guy at a gas station who was using it as transportation), an early '90s Jamis MTB, and a Schwinn Crosscut (?). Here are pics of 3 of them...

that stingray is cool

Why wait ?

My daughters are going into Jr. and Sr. high next year and understand their hard working dad might appreciate a cold beer from time to time and it also gives me more room to keep freezies for them.

My Aunt and Uncle are cleaning out their house to put it on the market and my uncle decided he didn't need his old Trek 620 anymore. He rode this alot over the years and, took it over to England for a year and so he had alot of history with it. I am going to go through it really well at some point restoring it back to being a dropbar bike and hopefully find the right person to pass it on too. Its too small for me my Uncle is 5'5". I might have to try out the saddle at some point. I wish I could convince him to keep it even if that means modernizing it which I could do for not that much money. I got a cheap Magna women's mountain bike too, but I didn't snap a pic of it.

Ah, yes. I was talking to former Olympian John Howard and director Michael Aisner, and they told me that the Treks made during these time periods were all made by hand. Literally made the company almost bankrupt. "I could have bought the company, in all honesty, back then." -John Howard

^ Got to wait because she has the fridge with her at the University. I could make better use of it, but that's the kind of sacrifice we dads have to make to send our kids to school!

That looks very nice. I have one of these frames (in a large size) waiting to get back on the road again. I have all the parts I just got doing other projects and things. I wonder what I can reasonably hope to get for it when I am finished.