Jim,

This is my current go-less-slow bike. It gets the nod on nice days and when I don't need to carry stuff. While not a true racing bike, it doesn't hold me back much.

I got it as a complete bike from eBay for cheap. The frame was beat up and the fork damaged in shipping so the seller replaced it with a new Tange one. I took it to the Bicycle Kitchen to align the dropouts, straighten out the derailleur hanger, and chase and face the bottom bracket. I built it up mostly from the parts bin, some local bike shop parts, and some online closeouts, hence the mixture of road and mountain from different eras.

I replaced the so-so Matrix wheelset with an eBay Ultegra/Open Pro set. The original derailleurs and chainrings were damaged when a cheap KMC chain broke after a descent, so I replaced them with nicer stuff. I got a new bottom bracket and swapped the original triple crankset with a decent double setup.

Lately I've toned down the colors by switching to 700Cx25 Continental Ultra Gatorskins.

1987 Trek 400T Elance, sport-touring geometry Most likely in Waterloo, Wis.
Reynolds 531 main triangle, Trek cro-mo stays
Trek investment cast lugs
Tange cro-mo fork
Hatta Vesta headset
Shimano UN-73 113mm cartridge bottom bracket, square taper
Shimano 600 crankset, 8-speed generation, 53T-39T
Shimano Deore XT rear derailleur
SunTour Mountech front derailleur
Shimano A400 7-speed indexed downtube shifters
Shimano 7-speed 13T-30T HyperGlide cassette, level unknown
Shimano Dura Ace 9-speed chain
Shimano Ultegra brake calipers
Cane Creek SCR-5C brake levers
Cinelli 1R stem
Cinelli Model 64 42cm handlebars
Mavic Open Pro rims
Shimano 600 hubs 32 Wheelsmith 14/15/14 3x butted spokes each wheel
700Cx28 Rivendell Ruffy Tuffy with SpeedBlend tires
MKS GR-9 pedals
MKS steel toe clips with MKS nylon straps, Toshi button ends
Brooks B17 Champion Special saddle
Sakae Ringyo LaPrade seatpost

Thanks, John

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John Huan Vu
Los Angeles, Calif.

john@jhvu.com