Is this an old Trek ?

Bought this as a possible project about 15 years back, dug out the garage this week to decide what to do with it.

It came as it looks now, think it once had paint ?

the bike shop I bought it from (they took it in part ex) said it was a Trek...but not 100%

Its light weight and as you can see has disk capabilities - not sure if the welding gives much away ??

Horizontal top tube ?

The seat stays are set lower than the top tube....not seen many other mtb frame set this way

The hangers appear to have a P shape inside?? can't find this design googling etc

The two main tubes are aero ...

no numbers anywhere either

if it's worth saving from land fill etc I've got plenty of bits to throw on it.

any ideas as to possible make or model would be greatly appreciated it's at least 17 +yrs old now

The drop outs don't look like a Trek to me. I'm sure early disc ready Trek frames used a Hayes type disc mount on the chainstay rather than an IS mount in the normal place.

Those kind of dropouts came up around 98/99. I would say this is not a "classik" as them beeing pre 97.
It has no canti mounts, and that makes me think its rather '00 or later...

After lookinh here ( http://www.retrobike.co.uk/gallery2/v/M ... atalogues/ ) me thinks its not a Trek.

Thanks, should have included this pic - it has v brake posts...

wish i could identify the drop outs, probably find the make then at least



cheers

Does the frame number give any clues?

Not seen many frames with seat stays lije that other than on a modern Felt.... but im sure there were.

shifty_steve":pqgn8u92 said:

Thanks, should have included this pic - it has v brake posts...

wish i could identify the drop outs, probably find the make then at least



cheers

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Oops, sorry, I was thinking canti brake cable mount. In other words: the frame was meant for V-Brakes or Disk. But not cantis. That rules out the early years...

02gf74":qrrab6l2 said:

Does the frame number give any clues?

Not seen many frames with seat stays lije that other than on a modern Felt.... but im sure there were.

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I have been googling like crazy the last couple of nights, but can't find anything like this other than carbon road bikes...?

An old boy who lives next door is a retired welder and reckons it's very decent welding for the era, says possibly Japanese ??

wot bikes are Japanese made ??

thanks

Blimey 02, your right about Felt, doesn't look so odd now