Restoring a $75 Trek Road Bike for my Wife on Christmas
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- In this one, I restore a Trek One-series road bike that I got for my wife for Christmas. I take it fully apart, recondition all the components, rebuild the shifters and put it back together. I even buff the paint. It turns out amazing and my wife absolutely loves it. Best of all, it was less than $100. I hope you enjoy this Christmas special.
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I been workin on bikes as a living 25 years now and I still watch you work on them for some reason. Really love what you're doing with the levers!
2 by 8, all a road bike drivetrain will ever need. Nice work on the restoration.
Just refurbished my Trek 1.5 which is a similar vintage to this beauty, 75 bucks for this is an absolute steal.
I paid $1000 for my Trek 1.5 when brand new and the recent refurb wasn't cheap but I what can I say - I love the damn thing!
Great restoration. I love when people save these rides and give them a new lease on life.
Really nice machine, great price but lots of work and a lucky girl. Well done Robert.
Well done brotha! Beautiful Bike!
you Sir have a great channel. I love the care you put into everything you do! Merry Christmas.
Much appreciated. Thank you.
Great presentation of a nice work, thank you for the cool video, and merry Christmas!
Happy holydays and New Year 🎉🥳
Thank you. Happy holidays to you too!
A great bike great restore hope your wife partner love as much we all did do a follower up of enjoying the bike all the best😊
Great job, looks very nice.
Parabéns! Ótimo trabalho! A bicicleta ficou linda! Excelente!
Great video . I enjoyed it 🎉
Lovely gift, hope your partner loved it! ❤
Happy Christmas. You inspired me this year to do some bike projects myself. I now ride a vintage bike around town!
Right on! Happy Christmas.
Robert, you did an excellent job for your wife’s Christmas present! I miss riding in Colorado so much. We would ride out by you when we went on some of our club rides from the Louisville cyclery. I always enjoy your videos and look forward to seeing how to fix things as you do for yourself and your family. Hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to you and your family. -Winn
Thank you Winn! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family, too.
Bravo, ottimo lavoro mantenendo tutti i pezzi originali!!!!!!👍
Amazing!
I've bought used bikes from Marketplace and love a basic mechanical Aluminum frame setup. So easy to perform self-maintenance compared to those electronic cyborg bikes.
I was able to achieve a 19mph average speed for a quick 1 hour ride I did this past fall in October or so. It was on a used Jamis 7005 alloy frame with Shimano Claris R2000 2x8. The course was just over 18 miles. So it was the perfect route to test my strength!
Nice work on the 19 mph average.
@@RobertAdairWorkshop thanks!
It was a first time for me (outside of a group ride) in which I was able to achieve this performance.
I am also happy and excited that it was a very basic bike setup that enabled me to crank out that power!
Very nice. I'd love to see a more detailed video on how you reconditioned the "sealed bearing" bottom bracket - new ones are going to get hard to get. Thanks.
I have another that I pulled out of an Orbea with a bad frame. It's octalink, but the process is the same. I'l put together a video on it and share it. It's incredibly easy to do.
Lovely restoration to be sure but no comments on how your wife liked the bike or any video footage of her riding & enjoying it? Fascinating transformation and one I could likely handle save for the bent derailleur hanger. Even if I bought the correct tool from Park Tools I find that intimidating. Silly I know. Great video, thanks for sharing. Indeed Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Appreciate it. Thank you. I wanted to have footage of her riding the bike but we got rain Christmas day and she was afraid to ride in it on a new bike. So we skipped it.
FIRST!
your videos are nice
Appreciate the support. Thank you!
i got a bike about 2 years ago its just a bit newer and with a carbon fork i also got it for about 50 euros and i loved it and this winter i have upgradet it to a brand new shimano 105 r7000 group and some new wheels im now exited to ride it even more
Wow. That sounds amazing. I like to put new groupsets on older bikes, too
Was she happy ! deff on safer ground than gifting a dyson :)
She really is enjoying it.
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Well done. Have you ever considered a mini polisher for your bikes?
Never occurred to me to look for a small one. That'd be really handy. That large one is really tough around the cable mounts.
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I have a couple of questions. Did you check the wheel rims for wear from the break pads? Did you get a saddle suitable for the ladies? How old was the bike. I know that last question does not always point to performance, I even have a 1988 road bike with a chrome molly frame on the wall in my garage. I was just curious.
Hey. Yeah, I did check them for wear when I trued the wheels. Surprisingly, minimal wear. The saddle in the video was a placeholder. She has a Liv saddle she likes and I swapped that on after she said she liked the bike. I think it might be a 2013 model, looking at paint schemes on Google. That’d make it 12 years old.
I remember those Trek Series Ones being a pretty good all around bike.
14:47 bent steering wheel?
I always replace the gear pulleys with real bearing ones. it makes such a difference while pedaling. Shimano shouldn't sell those real garbage pulleys in any, that's plastic with a steel tube they call "bearing".
73 USD for a nice bike like this is a bargain. It would be easily sold for 400+ USD here in Brazil.
Just heard that around 200M bikes are made every year..
Whoa.
Like new, and frame polishing is a hack.
how come in Eastern European countries where the median salary is 1000 usd/month these bikes are sold for at least 500 usd, while in the US you get them for 75? wow...
Ebay
Forgot to weigh it!
I weighed it :) 22.16 lbs.