For Sale: interesting, but tricky Bob Jackson

This is well worth saving but I just don't have the room to take on yet another project. Someone buy this!

price bump

Frame + Chrome LFG forks = 70
Frame + Original pink forks = 60

frame+ both forks = 90

forks available separately once frame is sold,
original 20
chrome 30

Thanks chaps. have a good weekend.

You could also drip some brass into the BB and then file / dremel it smooth and re-tap...
[disclaimer - I have no idea what I'm talking about]

Update.
vavere is leaving the country tomorrow and is really desperate for the pink forks, so im going to let him have them this evening.

everything else still for sale.

What's the steerer length on the chrome forks?

it is about 195mm give or take a bit.

Has this been resolved yet?

I reckon the best thing to do is get a new sleeve for it made, either put a threadless bb in there or get it threaded (the sleeve that is). I just recently sent my Coventry eagle off to have a sleeve inserted into the bb. It was such a large bb it needed a sleeve to insert the 'frame saver' bb i brought. In total the job was £50 and bb was £25. Pricey but worth it. For me it was a labour or love and if i wasn't already restoring an annoying piece of work i would take this on.

Best of luck to whoever takes this on would love to see it finished!

-T

more pics added to OP

frame+chrome forks+headset = 65
chrome forks = 30
just frame without forks = 40

Dibs on the chrome forks

provisional dibs on the frame

look s like everything is gone for now.
thanks all

this is still up for sale.

so from what i have gathered there are a few solutions for this:

bad ideas that might work (at your own risk)

1. just use it. it might be ok. there currently is a bb fitted in and it is tight. I wouldnt do this.
   
2. use shitloads of really strong glue in it - apparently works fine sometimes, but also means it will be very difficult/impossible to take it back out
   
   

safer ideas

1. use a threadless bb (VO ones are £30)
   
2. Mavic super BB mentioned above - i imagine this is something similar to threadless
   
3. thread the shell to take Italian BBs as they are 1mm larger, the shell can be reamed out a bit
   
4. build a new shell interior from somewhere like Argos.
   
   

sorry for the bump but i thought id summarize

you can use PTFE tape :)

A few pics of how the bob jackson turned out, bought a replacement old fork, got it resprayed, stocked with nuovo record campag, I fixed the bb shell with an oversize cup, which is holding firm in the old thread.

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^That is amazing. I think the forum needs a "back from the dead" thread... if it doesn't have one already?

Bravo!

^That is amazing. I think the forum needs a "back from the dead" thread... if it doesn't have one already?

That frame did sit around for a year and a half before I got around to it, then another few months with mario vaz.. So I could of been a little quicker. Got a holdsworth mistral, mercian professional and a francesco moser coming next. Hopefully a little quicker!