I needed a bike to train on in Alaska for the couple of weeks before I head to Florida to pick up my Surly.  My son Jon had my Trek 7000, which he has been riding off and on…

…kids…

…for much of the last decade.  He was in “off” mode this summer and had taken the bike to the Anchorage Trek Store for a tune-up he didn’t have the money to pay for, so

I’m back on the bike I rode the length of the Baja with- 1,000 miles/1,600 kilometers from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas- in 1994.

I’m sad to say that Jon has let this great bike get into pretty fugly shape…

…kids…

…but there wasn’t anything that several hundred dollar bills couldn’t take care of. I had to get a new seat and seatpost

^{a Bontrager saddle on a no-name seatpost}

and the shop had already replaced the nice shifters I had back in the day with some low-end Shimano dreck.

^{Soft-Ride handlebar suspension – those were the days}

I also had the shop put on the pedals I bought for my upcoming ride.

Man, this bike does not weigh anything.  You drive the Surly.  You fly this particular Trek.