jimrogerstrack

any info on this bike builder would be great.. I just got this from the original owner who raced it one season in the 60's and had been hanging in his basment ...

cyclotoine

You lucky dog! Come on, tell use what the components are and how much you payed.

jimrogerstrack

Sugino mighty competition cranks, Campagnolo ( pedels, headset, bottomend, hubs, post) Medalle D'or S.C.C rims Unicanitor brevettata seat , Columbus fork...

cyclotoine

sweet bike, sorry I can't tell you anything about it, must have been very small independent builder... Not much is known about american builder from this era, most of todays top builders began building in the early 70s (sachs, weigle, bayliss, gordon etc etc..) eisentraut and corky gulbransen are two others I am familiar with who were building in the 60s and prior, before them... dick power and others...

jimrogerstrack

here is what I found out from the orginal ownerHi Chris,

Cool.

Jim and I briefly worked at the same bicycle shop, ‘Champaign Cycle’ in Champaign Illinois. I’m going to guess he made no more than 30 frames…unless things took off after we drifted apart. He also built a criterium (road) frame for me that I really didn’t like the way it road/cornered --- something just didn’t work with the geometry on that one – and this caused a bit of a fall-out between us as he gave me a great deal and was looking for the exposure…not that I was national caliber even…I didn’t want to race the frame. I did some frame painting in those days…I might have even painted the track frame…I don’t remember, but my guess is not. And this was part of the further trade that he and I had going…me painting, he building. He was never big-time enough to sponsor a team. Back in that day (early 1970’s) custom frames where the rage and there was a lot of aspiring craftsman that got into the trade. Very ego to see people on something with your name on it. Some got in rom attending a frame-building class that Eisentraut (spelling?) gave. He was THE frame-builder that everyone looked up to in at least the mid-west racing circuit. The first to really do fine thin lug work and his frames just looked so much better than anything else out there when he came on to the scene. I don’t remember f Jim attended the class or if he learned the trade by other means. Part of the deal with the class was you built a frame for yourself so there are a lot of truly truly custom frames out there somewhere – the one and only by a particular builder

cooker

Here's another Jim Rogers thread:

https://bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=295389

Same Ye Olde English name on the downtube.

coelcanth

cool..
cranks look like 151bcd (early)
what are those steel bars/stem ?
looks nice

Humangirl

I'll trade you my jim rogers for yours!

https://bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=295389

want a road bike?

moki

dope bike. that stem (badged cinelli?) is killing me.

jimrogerstrack

the stem is a cinelli , I can not find and stampings on the bars but it does a small oval shaped sticker colors are yellow-green-black-red-blue, some letter I can make our MOD GRANO then can not make out the rest.. Can make out made in italy

vjp

Albert Eisentraut started his building clinics in 1971 after leaving Velo-Sport in California, so if this bike came from one of his classes I would think your date of the "60's" would be off.

vjp

jimrogerstrack

I found out the bike was built around the years of 1974,, sorry for the wrong info..