Tosco Bars (to the rescue!)

[Steve]

I picked up a 1990 Trek 520 over the winter. The price was right and I had been scouting for a used bike I could pack into the back of my small pickup along with all the rest of the camping supplies -- and not worry about scuffing it up or having to pull the fenders off (versus my favored Platypus which had proven to be a bit too looong for the task).

But how to make the 520 comfortable for my old bones?  I fitted a VO 1" quill x 80mm with 31.8 so I could mount a Ritchey Ergomax drop bar I had sitting in the parts bin - not bad, but the reach/stack was not quite what I needed. So, I turned to RBW for a Tosco in the 650mm x 31.8 flavor. TaDa!!!

[DavidP]

Steve,

This looks great. Always fun to build up a cheap but good bike for certain errands, camping trips, etc.

I actually just did a similar treatment to a 1997 Trek 720 Multitrack (ostensibly for one of my sons...)

Thanks for sharing!

-Dave

[Michael Morrissey]

This looks fantastic. Trek certainly did something right with their old steel frames. I also have the 31.8 Tosco bars on my bike, and they're incredible.

Michael