[CR]Re: Jack Taylor frame #6635

(Example: Production Builders:LeJeune)

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:33:17 -0800
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "joel metz, ifbma/sfbma" <magpie@messengers.org>
Subject: [CR]Re: Jack Taylor frame #6635

my immediate guess would be a tour of britain - their lugged road frame...

http://www.blackbirdsf.org/magpie/taylor/models.html

the campy dropouts, lugs, oval fork blades are my main clues...

stock geometry would be 73/71...

-joel
>I will post pictures later, but I just picked up a Jack Taylor frame
>from an i-BOB - #6653. Unfortunately it has been stripped of all of
>its paint. It has Brev. Campagnolo dropouts (rear driveside with
>der. hanger), Nervex Pro lugs - headset and seat-lug and a plainish
>bottom bracket stamped #11. There are braze-ons for shifters, water
>bottle, cable-guides under BB, and cable guide under chainstay.
>There is internal routing for rear brake cable through top-tube. The
>seat-stays are semi-wrap. The fork is oval in cross-section, Nervex
>semi-sloping crown. Both the crown and the rear-brake bridge are
>drilled for recessed brake-bolts. The serial number is stamped on
>the steering column and on one of the rear dropouts. Again #6635.
>The frame is 52.5cm C-T (seat-tube) and 56cm C-C (top-tube). It
>appears to have a relaxed geometry!
>
>Any ideas on the model?
>
>Paul Williams,
>Ottawa, ON, Canada
>

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