After some time, road bikes may look a little worse for wear and the value in them may be hard to see, however, by following some simple techniques, they can restored to their former glory. In this video, Sam Gupta saves a Trek 1.2 road bike and goes through the entire process of restoring the frame and then building it back up to once again to be fully useable.
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00:00I saved this road bike from the bin and I’m going to restore it to its former
00:05glory. Now it does need quite a lot of work to get it right but I have a good
00:10feeling that it will actually shape up pretty well. I don’t have too much
00:15information on what this bike is but I believe that this is a Trek 1.2 from the
00:20late noughties maybe 2009 maybe 2011 but before any components can be attached to00:29this bike I need to make sure that this frame is safe straight and solid and not00:36to mention this headset definitely needs replacing. So my first port of call was00:44to go and see the legends over at Velo Atelier and most importantly that man00:49being Lee Prescott and that’s because I wanted him to take a look at the frame00:53and make sure that the frame was actually safe and to ensure that it00:58hadn’t been in a crash. So the very first thing that we did was that he got01:02his frame alignment tool out and then checked to see if everything was straight.01:07Now you […]
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