Dude I built a bike around a water bottle I liked, so I definitely appreciate the "I have a crank and now I just need the rest of the bike" mentality. Nice work.
Velo Orange is soooo unlike today's "cycling stores". Most bike shops today would steer you in their direction, and not ask what YOU are trying to accomplish. Stay Chill Velo Orange. You are on to something great here...The industry needs more business like this. 😎
I love the early 90s Trek 900 series bikes. I’ve restored a couple and currently have a dark purple lugged 970 in the queue. Also the lugged 700 series from the same time period and factory make fantastic rides. Similarly spec’d but with 700c wheels. I’d argue that given the quality of lightweight off pavement 700c tires available today compared to the early 90s, these bikes are even better gravel bikes now than when they were first sold.
Wohoo! I have that exact bike frame hanging in my garage. It's too small for me, but I'm building it up for my wife. Thanks for the great video and the great aftermarket parts too Velo people. ATBs rule!
You're doing a great job with these videos! Including vintage and mid range parts besides the VO jewellery make them really functional and down to earth.
My”quiver” includes two Trek 730 Multitracks, both white , 700c, one lugged one tigged, made USA . Both free from friends, smaller one now with VO bars similar to Shanes, larger with moustache bars Have many bikes with different parts from VO- crankset here cables there, fenders small parts etc VO a great source for my needs, prices more reasonable than Riv or Rene H, quality very good, worth shipping across the country Keep it goin Igor
My 2020 Trek 520 Grando has a pump peg, a chain hanger, and a bolt-on kickstand plate on the chainstay. Probably the last mainstream bike to have any/all of them.
I have a 930 from 1992, the last year you could get it with a rigid fork (you could get it with a coil fork as well, or maybe it was elastomers? lol). I don’t think the original owner ever rode it because the bb spun like butter. The tubing is fantastic and it has the beefiest seat cluster lug I’ve ever seen. Call me crazy but I went with a 9sp cassette. Great bikes.
I have a red, lugged, ridge fork Trek 930 that's already had one second life as a comfort bike for my wife when we lived in Hawaii. We moved, it's spent a lot of time in the garage, the wheels got trashed. Time for a third life. Still working it out in my head....
Very nice. I picked up a similar lugged 930 in blue with speckled paint a few years ago for very little money. It was a bit too big for me, so it lives with a friend. I still get to wrench on it when it breaks though 😂
Awesome! Btw Steve, a group of friends and I drove through Titusville when I was in college in a buddy's 77 VW Bus. We stopped at The Bus Stop cafe and I bought a Tshirt. Well, when the tshirt was at the end of its life, I tried to buy a new one, but the cafe looks like it closed :(
Im currently working on a Trek 610 lugged road bike with Shimano 600 group set. Was able to remove a stuck bar stem & now working on stuck seat post. That will determine if I rebuild this frame or move components to another. I've completed a Fuji Touring bike & also a Raleigh . I still have my 72 Fuji Pro that I rode for years. My inventory exceeds 40 assorted bikes with a quiver of road bikes, older mountain & others. Still learning & doing @ 82. Enjoy the holiday season. 😇🙏🚲
I have _two_ of these in this same paint job! My wife and I bought them new in 1990 or so. They were $600 each IIRC. Today I received a SRAM NX 1x groupset that I’m determined to integrate on one of them. Now I’m trying to decide how to attack it. Nice to see this take on it!
Swapping those straight bars with Milan and Postino bars was a game changer for me as far as comfort is concerned. Have that same stem on my Hard Rock too.
So many great builds out there on that bike! Those are fantastic touring and commuter bikes. I'd first see what you don't like about its current setup, then adjust that. I really like resto-mods. So modern handlebars and modern shifting. Kind of like this 90s Waterford roadie: velo-orange.com/pages/waterford-1200-road-bike-restomod?_pos=1&_psq=resto&_ss=e&_v=1.0
I was thinking maybe find some steel brush for a Dremel and go at it. I think getting rid of the rust is best before painting, like you say. Would Humbrol paint work well? You know the kind sold in small tins for model builders?@@velo_orange
