With this angle you could risk sliding backwards!

You have to dock properly.

RIP hips...

(It's still a dope restomod though)

Surely OP will adjust the seat angle before using it, that'll cause a strain injury for sure.

It's more like the combination of both nose-high saddle and down-rotated handlebar

oh wow, they're original? Damn, you classy!

I hadn't even thought about how much drop bars have changed (although the narrow fascination I totally understand)

The drop / curl looks quite different now I pay attention

good on you, what a rad bike!

I’m always riding on the flats or the drops

I always did the same on my road bike (a Cannondale Cadd-8, not nearly as antique as your bike here). Last year I gave up and mounted straight handlebars. I like the steering leverage better and if I want to tuck I have aerobars mounted for that.

I love old bikes, but I think the only thing about your bike I wouldn't like is the downtube shifters. I haven't used them since my old Raleigh in the '80s, but I remember struggling with them and having to devote a lot of my attention to them while riding.

I bought a Trek 4200 in 2006, basically my first bike (as an adult, anyway). All yellow, and after experiencing my first numb penis episode, I bought this very long, thin, red, split Italian racing bike seat and put it on, so it was a very distinctive-looking bike (it even had tribars which aren't often mounted on mountain bikes). After a ride one day I left it on my front porch and forgot it was there and it was eventually stolen. I didn't even realize it until a week later when I was getting ready for a ride and couldn't find my bike anywhere. I was pissed but I immediately went out and bought the exact same bike in gray (which I still have and it has over 70,000 miles on it).

A few months after it was stolen, I was sitting in my house one day and got the strange urge to go out on my front porch, something I basically never did. While I was standing there, a pickup truck drove down my street, and mounted upright in the back was my original yellow bike, complete with the long red seat. There's no way it was a different yellow Trek 4200 with a long red seat and tribars. I was too surprised to do anything and it drove by and was gone. Probably wasn't the person that stole it, anyway; more likely they bought it from a pawn shop or craigslist. Just a really fucking strange experience.

The 4200 is/was a great bike. Not top of the line by any imagination, but durable and reliable as fuck. I'm glad I still have one of them, at least.

That's awesome. Now i'm going to keep my eyes peeled for something for my bike...

Raaad! I love it

interesting. I assume that's not the original rim size (tbh I am not sure when 27" was left behind, only that all the old road bikes like this I've worked on were that size). if so, why find new wheels for it?

how did you find working on a bike like this? myself, I find it refreshing to be able to work on something so simple