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A note about Trek road bike model
numbers: in general, higher model numbers mean higher original prices.
This is especially true of models within a particular year.
1993+ RETAIL
PRICES FOR TREKS
Suggested retail prices for Treks
from 1993 to current are included in the specifications at BikePedia.com.
These are listed under "Sugg Retail" for each bike. This
database is a great resource.
The Trek
Bike Archives, covering 2003 and newer Treks, also contains suggested
retail prices.
LISTING OF
TREK RETAIL PRICES BY MODEL AND YEAR
Visitors to this site have submitted
the following pricing information for various Trek models at the time
they were new. The prices are a combination of list prices and selling
prices. (If you have any pricing on Trek steel road bike models, please
send it along so it can be added here.)
|
Model
|
Year
|
Price
|
|
TX201
TX302
TX304
TX502
TX504
TX702
TX704
TX705
TX706
TX907
TX704 Venture
504
201
302
304
502
504
516
702
704
705
706
907
536
714
714
714
736
930 (frame)
|
77
77
77
77
77
77
77
77
77
77
77
78
78
78
78
78
78
78
78
78
78
78
78
79
79
79
79
79
79
|
$195
$225
$265
$250
$285
$280
$335
$435
$550
$785
$329
$285
$195
$225
$265
$250
$285
$310
$280
$335
$435
$550
$785
$398
$398
$399
$513
$429
$290
|
515
730 (frame)
412
412
413 (412?)
613
614
616
715
716
311
311
412
416
515
613
614
710
715
715
715
720 frameset
728
728
728
728
400
400
500
520
520
560
600
620
620
630
630
640
700
720
720
760
850
850
970
170
420
420
420L
520
620
720
760
830
850
890
300
400
400
400
410
460
460
500
520
670
720
770
170
560
760
400T
400T
560 Pro Series
560 Pro Series
400
400T
520
5000
2300
1500
1400
1200
1100
1000
660
520
420
420
400
330
7000
990
970
950
850
830
820
800
8500 Frameset
970 Frameset
Deore XT II,
Mountain Group
|
80
80
81
81
81
81
81
81
81
81
82
82
82
82
82
82
82
82
82
82
82
82
82
82
82
82
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
83
84
84
84
84
84
84
84
84
84
84
85
85
85
85
85
85
85
85
85
85
85
85
85
86
86
87
87
87
87
88
88
88
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
89
|
$540
$399
$365
$339
$345
$389
$417
$450
$570
$570
$300
$327
$365
$460
$550
$410
$475
$450
$640
$650
$660
$389
$715
$745
$750
$825
$259
$305
$355
$318
$375
$429
$455
$499
$489
$565
$555
$628
$740
$775
$785
$808
$580
$588
$1,275
$2,045
$309
$310
$309
$415
$540
$820
$800
$469
$669
$499
$280
$400
$319
$329
$399
$360 (on sale)
$400 (list)
$480
$499
$710
$869
$1,299
$2,000
$593
$634
$413 (on sale)
$459 (list)
$499 (on sale)
$569 (list)
$439
$459
$649
$2500
$1314
$970
$741
$648
$556
$521
$770
$673
$472
$470
$451
$357
$624
$1055
$692
$518
$454
$428
$368
$327
$485
$300
$608
|
420
1000
9500
9000
8900
8700
8000
7000
6000
990
970
970
950
930
850
830
820
800 KDZ
800
7900
790
750
730
720
700
5500
5200
2300
2100
1420
1400
1200
1100
1000
T200
T100
520
400
520
970
370
520
970
370
470
520
970
420
470
520
|
90
91
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
92
93
93
94
94
94
95
95
95
95
96
96
96
|
$300 (on sale)
$485
$2700
$1600
$2100
$1285
$925
$720
$640
$1025
$790
$650
$640
$555
$500
$430
$375
$310
335
$930
$620
$515
$465
$390
$330
$3100
$2100
$1390
$925
$870,sale $775
$820
$665
$620, sale $519
$570, sale $489
$2200
$1500
$820
$445
$900 (list)
$900 (list)
$413 (list)
$950 (list)
$1117 (list)
$400 (list)
$600 (list)
$925 (list)
$900 (list)
$440 (list)
$700 (list)
$1,000 (list)
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WHAT IS MY USED TREK WORTH?
(If "PRICELESS!" is not sufficiently accurate for you.)
eBay.com
is the best practical guide. It can tell you what similar bikes recently
sold for on eBay. Try search/ advanced search/ check "completed
items only". This way, you get the final prices paid. Search
for words like "Trek road" with words to exclude "aluminum
carbon". You also can search more specifically, such as for "Trek
400". You might need to try for a few weeks to find a bike similar
to yours, if it is not a common model.
To compare a local sale to an eBay sale, you should
add the cost of shipping to the eBay price. A low value bike can be
hard to sell on eBay for top dollar if the bike is to be shipped,
as that can add $50 or more to the price.
Craigslist.org
can provide some information about current prices. However, these
are asking prices, not the actual price for which the bike was sold.
One can search by region on the Craigslist.org site. One can search
for an item on Craigslist overall (not just by region). Use a search
engine (Google or Yahoo etc.) and include "Craigslist" as
the first keyword. Follow this by what you are looking for. For example
"Craigslist Trek 760".
A very rough measure of current selling price is to
multiply the original selling price by a percentage. See the price
information above for prices of many Treks when new. For bikes 1976
to about 1983, one can use a range of 40% to 70% for a bike. For bikes
from about 1984 to 1990, one can use 33% to 50% of the original selling
price. This is for bikes with good to excellent paint and in good
to excellent overall condition. Condition is very important. A bike
in mint condition will sell well above these ranges, perhaps at or
above the original price when new. A bike in poor condition, especially
one with significant rust inside and out, has little value.
The percentage for selling frames is higher than for
bikes because the frames are less outdated than old components. For
frames 1976 to 1983, one can use a range of 40% to 100%. For frames
from about 1984 to 1990, one can use 33% to 80% of the original selling
price. This is for frames in good to excellent overall condition.
The bike values above are useful only if the potential
buyer is a person who appreciates a vintage lightweight or specifically,
a vintage Trek. A vintage road bike offered at a garage sale might
never be sold, even for a ridiculously low price, because it is unlikely
the right buyer will come along. See Selling
Suggestions for help in finding the right buyer.
Value can vary by season. Road bikes typically
sell for more money and more quickly in the Spring and early Summer.
An exception is for local sales in regions that don't have cold or
rainy Fall and Winter seasons. Another exception is high end collector
bikes, which tend to be season independent.
SMALL VINTAGE LIGHTWEIGHT BIKES
SELL FOR LESS?
Smaller vintage road frames/bikes often do not sell
for as much as a larger version of the same frame. This is true of
the 21” (54cm) size and especially the 19” (48cm) frames.
Nineteen inch frames/bikes can sell at a discount of up to 40% over
their larger brethren. The lesser value is easily demonstrated; for
example, by looking at eBay selling prices. (An exception to this
general rule is for classic French and Italian bikes, which are highly
valued by [older] Japanese collectors.)
Why would this be? Certainly Trek sold bikes of these
sizes to willing buyers in the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s at
the same price as for larger bikes. There must have been the right
number of smaller men, women and kids to buy them. Are Americans that
much bigger now? A recent scientific study says no. Certainly most
kids, as they grow up and need larger bikes, will pass through these
size ranges.
I believe older bikes are bought and kept by people
interested in fixing or working on them. These owners need a bit of
expertise to get the bikes properly back on the road or keep them
on the road (or even just to keep them in a collection). It also takes
effort and knowledge to locate replacement parts. New riders tend
to buy new bikes and only slowly (if at all) learn how to repair them.
For parents to buy a used bike for their (smaller) children, requires
that the parents be bike savvy, which eliminates lots of potential
small bike users. Bike repair and maintenance generally do not interest
women (there are major exceptions to this rule), who are a major fraction
of people who would use the smaller bikes.
Even if a person wanted to have a shop maintain their
classic Nuovo Record, Super Record, or SunTour Superbe-equipped bike,
the shops with that knowledge are rare and the parts cannot be bought
from their typical suppliers.
The good news, for those of us built close to the
ground, is that we can buy vintage lightweight bikes at favorable
prices.
