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For sale as a lot: what you see here^ JRJ Frame, Fork, Tange Levin headset and custom painted Salmon Super Profil mudguards (with correct fixings). + vintage alloy short seat post and saddle clamp shown in last photo.
Offers from £150 please TO BE POSTED HERE IN THE THREAD. Collection from SE4, or Soho. Please include where you will collect from / whether will need it packaging for collection by courier. Courier collection should be from Soho, monday-friday 10am-5pm.
IMPORTANT! Don't bid more than once! Bid how much you want to pay for it. I will choose the offer I like best, on its merits.
Frame is from about 1950. Verbal provenance was that it is a JRJ (early Bob Jackson). I have not researched this. The fork has a clear number, the BB has some stamps that are obscured by paint. Fairly steep angles, close clearance for 27s (extremely so in rear) means that 700s will fit this bike fairly nicely. Short wheelbase, some toe overlap with 27"s and mudguards. Short rake fork for this era, round section with nice double plate crown, and nice fat round ends. Plain, unusual hand-wrapped lugs. Large spearpoints on the HT, so large my head-decal doesn't quite fit between them. Elegantly fluted seat stay caps. Chain stays are fillet brazed into shell, and are very stiff for something this old, oval > round section. Pencil-thin seat stays. Front and rear lamp brackets. Curved brake bridge (drilled) has nice kite-shaped lugs at the seatstay joins.
Repro decals from HLloyd. When it came to me it didn't have original paint, so wet enamel job you see invented by me, by Dave Crowe of Colourtech.
Spacings: rear 110mm, front 98 mm (front has narrow-axle dropout, as per Engligh frames of this period).
NO DENTS. some small chips and flakes from the paint, particularly where brakes and bolts have contacted. Nothing that detracts seriously. There seems to have been some bending done on the DS rear stay to curl the very tip outwards, perhaps to make spring the frame for a 115mm or 120mm hub a little easier. It didn't bother me, but I reckon it could be straightened fairly well if you were to do any work to the frame or don't mind losing some paint on the ends.
Sorry, the title of the thread is incorrect: the Actual Measurements are:
ST c-c 57cm
TT c-c 57.5cm
chain stays: 41cm to centre of dropouts.
Here are some shots of details. I have some more, ask if you want to see anything. The wheel shown here is a 700, with a 22mm tyre. As you can see the front brake-drop is larger than the rear.
Airlites pics and Belleri bars & some GB brake kit in a short while.