About Trek Road Bikes
Trek Bicycle Corporation is a major bicyle and cycling product manufacturer and distributor under brand names Trek, Gary Fisher, Bontrager, Klein and until recently, LeMond Racing Cycles. With its headquarters in Waterloo, Wisconsin, Trek bicycles are marketed through 1,700 dealers across North America, subsidiaries in Europe and Asia as well as distributors in 90 countries worldwide.
Trek 5200 Oclv 52cm Road Bike
Bought this Trek three years ago for my wife but she only road it one time. The frame is in great shape. The paint has scratches and two paint chips which I showed on the pictures. These two paint chips happened when the bike was shipped to me. The group is made up of Shimano 600. Everything works perfectly. Will pack and ship with UPS. Happy Bidding!
Stand over height is 29″. The rear cassette is 8 speed and the front crank is two speed. This is a carbon fiber Trek but I do not know the year. The shifters are normal Shimano shifters located ont he brake levers.
In the early 1990s Trek’s director of technology, Bob Read, attended an aerospace industry trade show in Salt Lake City, Utah, eventually meeting up with a closed mold tooling company called Radius Engineering. That visit convinced Read that Trek’s future success depended on building frames from carbon fiber, a material he envisioned could be used to make light, strong frames. Having lived through the troubled introduction of the 5000, Trek invested heavily in in-house carbon fiber manufacturing capabilities. In 1992 Trek unveiled its first home-grown, full-carbon framed bicycles, the 5500 and 5200, featuring OCLV Carbon frames. OCLV stands for “Optimum Compaction, Low Void” and refers to Trek’s proprietary process for creating carbon structures that exceed aerospace standards.