Classic Trek 620 Frame Repair

This was a fun and quick frame repair for a gentleman who needed to keep an old companion in working order and had a previous repair that failed him in a mildly catastrophic way. We needed to do a minimally invasive repair for a similarly minimal budget, but we wanted to make sure it was going to last for the next several years without any trouble.

This was an older Trek 620 that had the upper seatstay break at the lug. Our customer had a previous repair done for cheap, but it hadn’t held up much past a year because it wasn’t done as thoroughly as it should have been. In the interest of saving some time and money, we weren’t going to cut out the old repair and replace the whole upper stay, we just decided to reinforce the upper stays together and braze in some better fillets on the back of the seat stays.

Things turned out great… there wasn’t much room in the budget for a ton of touch up or aesthetic work, so we tried to keep the repair clean and scorch as little of the original paint as possible. We added a basic stay bridge that looks like it belongs, even though you wouldn’t normally see one where we ended up placing it!