Mercian or Bob Jackson?

given the choice though Mercian, one day.....

fantasy wank bikes for the middle aged.

IMHO.

^ IMHO fail...

That is humble for me.

:O

What size you looking at? May have a bj for sale cos it's a bit small no matter how much i try to convince myself otherwise....

It's true. Custom English steel = zzzzzzz
'70s Raleigh FTW! Or Pegoretti sans spew paintjob..

dont bother with any, get an early 90s apollo mtb frame. that'll do fine.

Isn't this enough to put anyone off a Mercian: "Mercian Cycles & Paul Smith...For Autumn Winter 2007 we are proud to be collaborating with legendary designer Sir Paul Smith to create a limited edition range of Paul Smith cycles." Has the whole cycling world gone Witcomb?

paul smith was a keen cyclist actually, so i 've heard. but we all know the best frames are raleigh lizards as ridden by many illegal immigrants of today ( wearing loose fit stonewash denim)

racist.

(well someone had to say it)

I read half of the thread then grew a beard so excuse me if anything i say has already been stated.
I recently acquired a second hand mercian super vigorelli from 1994. It's not the lightest frame, but it is smooth on the road, it rolls with confidence with very little sign of it's flittery track pedigree. After reading about mercians casual service i'm glad that i didn't get it new from them, wouldn't have the patience.

I Like Bob Jackson frames but they are Leed based. I don't like Leeds, in fact I hate Leeds, so buy the Mercian instead.

im thinking of going to leeds while im over in england... but everyone keeps telling me not too!

Leeds isn't that bad, M8.

After reading about mercians casual service i'm glad that i didn't get it new from them, wouldn't have the patience.

In my experience their service is far from casual. Their waiting list is quite long, but they don't hang about once they get around to you.

mercian for sure.

you're a bit slow arent you.

Lol (Mercian)

:-)

a little yes. But important to have said it I think.

My frame owning history goes like this:
North: Mercian
South: Condor
North: Woodrup
South: Alec Bird
North: Arthur Caygill
South (very): Colnago

why is this thread open again?

why is this thread open again?

'Cos it knew that I'd been drumming my fingers for a fortnight about the Cliff Shrubb bike at Pearson Cycles, and it'd only be after I'd paid for it that I'd do a bit of googling so I could show my kids what a cool bike I've bought. This thread showed up 'cos it'd known all all along. Hail LFGSS and its Madame Zelda powers!

'Course I'm a noobs, so I won't be able to advertise my current bike till I've found something else to say. If you're interested in a Colombus tubed MASSIVE bike, that needs a bit of nursing, PM me.

i have a 6ft 3 friend currently in the market for something he can tour on and also able to nurse what a coincidence, other wise i would accuse you of finding old threads to write on in order to cheat your way out the nursery

'Scuse the public discussion, but with this I break out into open plains. Your 6'3" friend will be very happy on my 60cm C2T Fred Williams frame. You can have a look at what it used to look like here: http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2004/henley.htm (uploaded by previous owner).

Since then I've made it a free wheel (48:16), significantly degraded the paintwork through lack of cleaning, allowed the wheelnuts to pick up a bit of rust, added aerorage track wheels (white) which need truing, added new bars with a better drop (still bullhorns), addred Tiagra F&R brakes and levers and ground the front chain ring to shark's teeth.

I've owned the bike for six years and covered about 20K miles. The headset needs a tweak and I think the 3/32 chain I bought in a hurry ought to be replaced (a bit musical under stress), but apart from that, providing your mate doesn't want to look too cool or go up any very steep hills, I'd say it's good to go. PM me if you're not horrified.

I'm going to see if my MTB communting neighbour (who's tall) is interested, but I'm hoping for something around the £200 mark. Sound reasonable?

not horrified its just not for him but thank you

Sorry to reopen this one.. But need some info on the different bob jackson paint jobs..
there are enamel and metallic in my price race.. Does anyone have any pics of either finish?

you can see the different in their website.

Or if you feel like using your ICT skill, go to Flickr, put "Bob Jackson" and bob jackson's your uncle.

:)