Vintage 53cm 1985 TREK 520 Reynolds steel touring bike, 7x3 with bar-ends MEDIUM

Description: OVERVIEW: Here’s a great 53cm — or MEDIUM— vintage 1985 TREK 520 touring bike with a Reynolds 501 steel frame (with beautiful lugs and ‘Trek’ pantographs), which came to me as a partial bike, and which I built up the other day much the way it would’ve come stock in 1985 (but with indexing bar-end shifters — and modern bars and stem). Bike is fully tuned and ready to ride; I’ve been wrenching on bikes for more than 40 years, much of that time professionally. Serial number reveals this TREK to be a 1985 520 touring model, with Reynolds 501 steel double-butted frame. Frameset has absolutely no dents or dings, and gray metallic paint is in close to mint shape, which is extraordinary considering it’s nearly 40 years old. Drivetrain is bombproof low-mileage Shimano 7x3 classic touring setup, including Shimano Deore XT 7/8/9-sp long-cage rear derailleur, vintage Shimano triple front derailleur, vintage Shimano indexing 7-sp 13-28 freewheel, and new-old-stock Shimano Exage 7-speed downtube shifters which I’ve mounted as bar-ends using new Shimano bar-end mounts (right/rear shifter can shift in index or friction mode, left/front shifter is friction only). Crankset is near-mint vintage Suntour 110-bcd crankset with low-mile 48-38-28 chainrings, mounted to buttery smooth vintage Shimano fully-adjustable square-taper bottom bracket. Brakes are vintage Shimano long-reach caliper brakes with newish pads. Wheels are 700c and 36-hole, with both Shimano hubs just serviced by me; rear wheel is Wolber eyeleted rim, front wheel is vintage Rigida eyeleted rim. Tires are matched set of new Vitoria 700x32c touring tires mounted atop new tubes (the 32c tires fit easily in the frame, btw; I test-mounted a pair of 700x37c Continental touring tires and they also fit easily). Bars are modern 43cm 31.8 drop bars, and stem is new 80mm 31.8 threadless stem (the use of which is enabled by new Profile Design threaded-to-threadless stem adapter). Brake levers are vintage Shimano RX100 aero levers, and bars are newly wrapped with new black cork tape. Seatpost is vintage SR LaPrade 27.2 saddle, and saddle is like-new modern Velo saddle. All cables and housing are brand new. Again, bike is fully tuned and ready to ride. (No pedals are mounted, obviously, but I could include some platforms for free if you’d like.) MEASUREMENTS: Frame measures 53cm from center of BB to top of seat-tube, which is often simply called a MEDIUM size frame. Top-tube measures about 55cm from center-2-center. Standover is about 31 inches with the current 700x32c tires mounted. PRICE/SHIPPING: But It Now price is $529. Shipping to anywhere in Lower 48 United States is $149 (sorry, NO shipping to Alaska or Hawaii; also, NO shipping to PO Boxes) — but if you live near the Seattle Metro area, you can instead pick up for FREE at my home in the Redmond WA area, which is about a half hour drive due east of downtown Seattle.

Price: 529 USD

Location: Sammamish, Washington

End Time: 2024-12-06T20:24:42.000Z

Shipping Cost: 149 USD