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- CommentAuthormatt byrne
- CommentTimeAug 18th 2009
Ok, I'm not too up on Treks, especially old enough ones. I got offered a Trek 1000 Alpha yesterday, I'm guessing about 5 years old, blue frame with big white band on the top and seat tube that says TREK in red. It's got a full Campag Mirage groupset, looks pretty clean I suppose, for €200, reckon I could get it down to €175 at a push. Is it worth it? -
- CommentAuthorsuicide_doors
- CommentTimeAug 18th 2009 edited
Does this look familiar? That's the 2001 Trek 1000 (I don't think Alpha means much, as they don't seem to have made any other variants that year), Trek's lowest end road race bike. Aluminum with a Cromoly fork, Shimano Sora components primarily. I think they may have used something similar to this color scheme in 2003 as well, dunno for sure. It doesn't matter much, as there aren't any major differences between the models. Anyway, the MSRP on it was $650, making it about £460 in 2001 conversion GBP.
I don't think Trek has ever used Campy, and the 1000 has used Shimano Sora for the last eight or nine years, so someone upgraded this one.. Mirage is Campagnolo's second lowest group and not much of a step above Sora, but it probably means that the components are less than nine years old.
So you would be paying less than half of the bike's original value, give or take, not taking the slight upgrade to Mirage into account. I don't know what exactly you mean by clean, but if you're serious about it and not familiar with servicing road bikes, I would definitely have someone who is check it out. That said, if you just want a road bike to mess about with it's not a bad deal, and if you look on Google there are a bunch of these (with stock components) selling for more on various used sites (Craigslist, eBay, etc). -
- CommentAuthormatt byrne
- CommentTimeAug 18th 2009
Cheers SD, I kinda had a feeling by the colour scheme it wasn't particularly anything fancy, I also figured the Campag stuff wasn't original, still looks relatively new. Cheers, for the heads up, I would've only bought it if it was something I definitely couldn't pass up, I don't think my girlfriend or my housemates would appreciate another set of wheels knockin around the house so that's a no vote I think. Thanks again. -
- CommentAuthorAaron C
- CommentTimeAug 18th 2009
Posted By: suicide_doorsI don't think Trek has ever used Campy
not that this matters, but trek used to use NR groups on their highest end rides. -
- CommentAuthorsuicide_doors
- CommentTimeAug 18th 2009
Good to know, thanks. -
- CommentAuthorJoshua A.C. Newman
- CommentTimeAug 18th 2009
That's a triple. That's pretty weird. Anyone know what this bike was designed for? It's got the wide range of a cyclocross, but the brakes say road bike. -
- CommentAuthoreaglerock
- CommentTimeAug 18th 2009 edited
Posted By: Joshua A.C. NewmanThat's a triple. That's pretty weird. Anyone know what this bike was designed for? It's got the wide range of a cyclocross, but the brakes say road bike.
Hard to say. A lot of the Trek brands were available in both double and triple-ring versions in the late '90s/early '00s - I'm thinking Lemond in particular, who had triple versions of most of their bikes right up to the end, including carbon and titanium frames. Normally, I think of a road frame with a triple as a touring bike, but the absence of rack braze-ons says no. Maybe it was just the hillclimber option in the days before compact cranksets were common, although Bikepedia doesn't list any Lemond stock build with a compact.
Does anyone know whether Trek has ever put a compact crankset into a standard build? It's way too many bikes over way too many years for me to look them all up.
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