Trek 1000 Winter Project
12-20-14 | 11:07 AM
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Trek 1000 Winter Project
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. 
12-20-14 | 02:36 PM
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Looks like a fun project. I would have stopped at the carwash on the way home.
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“One morning you wake up, the girl is gone, the bikes are gone, all that's left behind is a pair of old tires and a tube of tubular glue, all squeezed out"
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12-21-14 | 08:11 AM
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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.
12-21-14 | 09:23 PM
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The frame was explicitly designed to emulate the ride of a high-end steel frame of that vintage, so as not to infringe on the Klein patents on using oversize diameter tubing.
12-24-14 | 04:20 PM
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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.
12-24-14 | 04:35 PM
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Internal cable routing on YouTube , hope this link works .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zt9-kHzfho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zt9-kHzfho
12-24-14 | 04:54 PM
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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.
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.
