Hi Tom,
Welcome to the list. I also have a Bob Jackson and enjoy it very much too. You can find out your frames particulars by writing or calling the current Bob Jackson Company. Tell them the serial number, give them your credit card (I think they charged me $10) and in a few days they respond back with all the particulars. Good luck in your search.
Eric Elman
Somers, CT
> Hi Brien. Three Bob Jacksons!!! Hi all. I am new to
> the list. Been watching this page and enjoying the
> back and forth for about a week now. Learning a lot.
> I, too, have a Bob Jackson. I have been commuting on
> it, year round, for the last 22 years, to and from my
> north-side neighborhood of Rogers Park, up and down
> the lakefront bike path (very beautiful), to downtown
> Chicago, or, as we say, the "Loop" - it's about a 25
> mile round trip. The Bob Jackson has the best ride of
> any bike that I have ever been on. It's just as good
> in four inches of fresh lake-effect snow as on the now
> piping hot pavement. I ride sew ups, or "tubulars" as
> the folks on this page call them (you see, I sew them
> up after I get a flat and patch them). Before the Bob
> Jackson, I used to ride a Falcon up and down the
> Berkeley Hills, but that bike was stolen from the bike
> rack it was locked to inside Boalt Hall on July 4,
> 1980. Oh well. I bought the Jackson from a guy who
> built frames in his shop in Rogers Park, on Clark
> Street, right off North Shore and Albion Streets, back
> in 1981. I wanted to buy one of his frames, which all
> had a fairly unique design, but didn't have the $1,200
> he was asking so, instead, he sold me the Jackson,
> used, for $400. (I don't remember his name, I think
> the shop was called North-side Cyclery, but am not
> sure. He, by the way, was mugged, hurt badly in the
> process, and stopped building frames. Rogers Park used
> to be a pretty dicey place but has since gentrified. I
> couldn't afford to buy my own house these days.
> Somewhat sad on both counts.) Now to the point, I was
> wondering how I could tell how old my bike is and,
> exactly, what kind of Jackson it is. Can you, or
> anyone reading, help me with this?
> --- brian blum <bbspokes@lycos.com> wrote:
> > I own two Colnago Supers and three Bob Jacksons. Of
> > the 208 bikes I have owned I have sold 175 but I
> > still have all the Bob Jacksons and Colnagos, I have
> > never sold one of these. My favorite bikes are a
> > 1978 Super and a 1975 BJ. I have ridden a Confente
> > and I did not like it, the Cinelli's I liked one and
> > not the other and I own two I need to assemble so
> > who knows. I found some Masi's rode great some not
> > so great maybe it was the wheels?(I own two) You
> > can rate a bike on mystique, on craftsmenship, on
> > looks, ride or snob appeal whatever. If you like it
> > great keep it this is the fun of bike collecting. I
> > try them all and keep my favorites. Some have been
> > heckled and years later praised by the same people
> > becuase they are in or out of fashion. I prefer to
> > try them all and separate the wheat from the chaff
> > by my own standards no matter what the "experts"
> > say. Brian in Berkeley
> >
> >
> >
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