Re: [CR]my 90s RON COOPER w 753

(Example: Humor:John Pergolizzi)

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 04:24:59 -0700
Subject: Re: [CR]my 90s RON COOPER w 753
From: "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <421037BF.2030900@pacbell.net>


Go talk to Tony at A Bicycle Odyssey, in Sausalito.

Almost every Cooper we sold during my time there was custom-built, and often people spec'ed their own parts.

To be honest, that frame looks familiar.

Did you buy it locally?

On 02/13/2005 10:31 PM, "Bob Freitas" <freitas1@pacbell.net> wrote:
> If I follow the link on CR I end up with the same situation.If I go
> there directly the image does enlarge
>
> BOB
> no
> number on the steer tube
>
> Steven L. Sheffield wrote:
>
>> On 02/13/2005 08:04 PM, "Bob Freitas" <freitas1@pacbell.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Says HENRY JAMES ,GERI said RON used mainly 1 crown,but you have one
>>> also.................did he use serial numbers?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Serial numbers are generally on the steer tube ... Sometimes on the BB shell
>> as well.
>>
>> In my case, I asked for an HJ crown, because I liked the look of them on the
>> Waterford 1200s.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> BOB
>>>
>>> Steven L. Sheffield wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 02/13/2005 07:45 PM, "Bob Freitas" <freitas1@pacbell.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I finally got this up on WOOL JERSEY site
>>>>> 753 REYNOLDS with HENRY JAMES ,no serial number that I can
>>>>> find(made to order?) RON used the same crown almost continually so why
>>>>> did he use HJ on this one?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is it a true HJ crown (does it say "Henry James" around the brake hole), or
>>>> is it an Everest HJ copy, like on my 1997 Cooper?
>>>>
>>>> For some reason, clicking on the thumbnails in the wooljersey.com gallery
>>>> brings up images that are no larger than the thumbnails.

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