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Trek 1000 Winter Project
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I recently picked up this Trek 1000. It has been hanging in a garage for quite a while, and is pretty grungy. The details as I understand. SN 851932 Diacompe BRS Edge brakes and levers Derailleurs are Suntour Edge. 7 speed rear, Indexed. Matrix Titan II rims. http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=423956http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=423958http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=423959http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=423960
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looks like the good type of grunge... oil based, instead of rust based. What's the plan?
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Looks like a fun project. I would have stopped at the carwash on the way home.
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Nice bike. I refurbed an 1100 a while back and it was a wonderfully smooth ride. My winter beater is a 1400, also from that era, and that, too, is a great ride. I'm no Trek nut, but they knew what they were doing with that generation.
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Cool project! What is the weight?
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Originally Posted by PugRider
(Post 17405438)
Nice bike. I refurbed an 1100 a while back and it was a wonderfully smooth ride. My winter beater is a 1400, also from that era, and that, too, is a great ride. I'm no Trek nut, but they knew what they were doing with that generation.
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Fun. zippy ride.
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Well, the gunk cleaned off really well, and the frame has only a couple of paint chips, so it should polish up nicely. The new challenge for me will be replacing the internally routed rear brake cable and housing. I'm so new at this that every bike has a fresh challenge. The bike will be sold, being too small for me. I'm building too much "inventory", so the spring better be kind when it comes. When this one is finished, I'll have three bikes to turn.
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Internal cable routing on YouTube , hope this link works .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zt9-kHzfho |
Originally Posted by flyfisherbob
(Post 17414195)
Well, the gunk cleaned off really well, and the frame has only a couple of paint chips, so it should polish up nicely. The new challenge for me will be replacing the internally routed rear brake cable and housing. I'm so new at this that every bike has a fresh challenge. The bike will be sold, being too small for me. I'm building too much "inventory", so the spring better be kind when it comes. When this one is finished, I'll have three bikes to turn.
The internal rear brake cable housing is easy to deal with on a Trek. Remove the seatpost. Feed new housing in from the front. Stick your finger in the seatpost hole and guide the housing to the exit hole while shining a flashlight into the exit hole so you can line the housing up with the hole. Push the housing out the exit hole in the frame from the front. If you can't get the housing to line up with the exit hole, use a stiff piece of wire, or a small diameter philips screwdriver stuck into the exit hole to line the housing up to exit. Doesn't even take two minutes. |
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