Hello Ming, Welcome to the list. Your bike falls within the CR timeline. It is a custom frame made by Rob Roberson of San Diego for Nadine Gillogly, or "Dene" as we called her. You are correct in that it is a well made and well loved bike. Dene and her husband Al had matching Robersons made sometime in the early '80's. Maybe between '80 and '83; I have hazy recollections from that far back for reasons we won't get into here. The paint date may be written on the steering column in Magic Marker.
Rob is a highly regarded local framebuilder who is pretty much unknown outside of San Diego because of lack of self promotion. He now works in my shop preparing frames for painting. Rob has as much torch handling experience as any framebuilder I know and I trust his judgement in matters of bike building without question. He has "done time" in the shops of Masi, Ibis and Hooker. He made most of Jeannie Longo's time trial bikes while working at Hooker's "skunk works" in Tijuana, Mexico. She used those bikes for many years and paid for them with her own money. There is a photo of his work on page 44 of the May 2002 issue of Bicycling magazine.
Dene loved her bike and did many tours on it with Al. I remember riding on a tour with her from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. We all had a great trip. She was in her '60's at the time. Al and Dene loved doing things outdoors and were strong riders for their ages. I have not heard from her in many years and suspect that she has passed on and you are now the lucky recipient of her machine. I'm sure she would be happy to know that her bike has moved on to a caring and interested new owner. Enjoy this one and take care of it. It is your best bike and with luck you will pass it on to some lucky rider in the distant future. I hope all my bikes will go to loving homes some day.
Joe Bell
San Diego
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> hi folks,
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> i love your web site and am new to this mailing list, so i thought i
would introduce myself and ask a question that has been itching at me for
the past two weeks.
> well, i guess i really like bikes but haven't been the richest girl in
the world (c'mon folks! i just got our of college!), so i don't own any
sweet vintage bikes that fit the focus of this mailing list--except maybe
one. i currently have a raleigh technium pro bike and a cannondale r600.
needless to say, i love road riding. i live in corvallis oregon (which
happens to be a very bicycle friendly town) and hold a research position in
a molecular lab on campus. the question i have concerns my newest (and
oldest!) bike....
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> i recently picked up what seems to be a very nice and very well-loved
touring bike at a thrift store. i've been asking local bike shops and even
sent out an email to some vintage bike shops around the country to try and
identify this thing, but have had no luck. i'm very curious about the frame
maker and the bike in its original condition. i know
> the bike is probably late 80's and that you prefer to deal with pre 1983
> bikes, but i thought i would give this list a shot.
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> to start with, this bike has a joe bell custom paint job (identified by
the JB logo) and the word "nadine" on it (the bike's name? it's owner's?).
the head badge is a chrome capital R inside a rectangle. also, the name "D.
Gillogly (i;m not sure i spelled that right) is on the bottom bracket shell
(no serial number). other than that, it seems
> to be a very well put together bike and the only bummer is a ding in the
steel frame. here are some more details:
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> full component braze-ons
> frame is brazed
> campy drop-outs and headset
> chrome L-shaped chain hanger
> maybe not original, but it also has cable sheaths on the downtube
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> otherwise, this thing is sort of a frankenbike with a mix of mostly
suntour
> components on it.
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> please let me know if you have any info on this bike. i can take
> pictures of the logo and any other parts if that would help!
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> thank you!
> -ming
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> corvallis, oregon.
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