FS: Bruce Gordon '78 Road 61x59c-c $500 Shipped Conti USA
03-14-17, 04:47 PM
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[SOLD] FS: Bruce Gordon '78 Road 61x59c-c $500 Shipped Conti USA
SOLD for realsy---thanks for all the interest and comments!
I'm shuffling the deck a bit, so I'm offering a nice green '78 Bruce Gordon frameset here. First off, unfortunately the frame arrived with ****ered drive-side bb threads, which won't securely hold an English-thread cup. I'm successfully using, and including with the sale, a VO Grand Cru threadless bb. Your other options would be to re-tap the bb threads Italian, or have a framebuilder lay in some brass and retap English, which would likely require a repaint.
$500 via paypal Goods & Services for frame, fork and bb; includes bikeflights shipping in the continental USA.
This is an eyelet-less road frame with decent tire clearance (true 28s fit fine), longish wheelbase and a spirited but well-mannered ride. BG confirmed the ser# indicates it was the 2nd frame built in Feb '78. Lotsa nice attention paid to thinning lugs and clean/graceful French-style fishmouth stay/drop treatment, but without the fancier asymmetric lug holes. Paint is close to an 8/10, overall very nice but with some notable rubs and chips inside the chainstays, atop the drive-side chainstay near the bb, and on the rear dropout flats, with some other smaller, scattered chips. The biggest flaws are less obvious when built up.
Dims (my measurements) are:
Frame: 5.1lb/2.3kg; fork: 1.7lb/0.8kg; f/f: 6.8lb/3.1kg
ST 73.1-deg, HT 74.5-deg
ST 61.0cm c-c, 62.5cm c-t
TT: 58.7cm c-c
Chainstay: 41.3cm, wheelbase 103.0cm
BB Height: 27.7cm (w/29mm tire)
BB drop: 70mm
Standover: 86.3cm/34.0"
Rear spacing: 125mm
Campy horizontal front/rear drops w/o eyelets
Takes 27.2mm post, a little snugly
I've attached a coupla pix of the built-up bike, More pix, including frame-only, on my flickr site here:
https://flic.kr/s/aHsjDHUjMR
Please PM with questions. I'm stuck in Salt Lake City after NAHBS due to the blizzard, will hopefully be back home late tomorrow night. I'll undoubtedly have some shoveling and decompressing to do once I get back, figure I can have the frameset ready to ship early next week.
If the consensus is a cleanish BG with ****ered bb threads isn't worth $500, I'll keep it and have a rebrass/repaint done. I guess that's me trying to nicely say I won't be responding to lower offers.
I'm shuffling the deck a bit, so I'm offering a nice green '78 Bruce Gordon frameset here. First off, unfortunately the frame arrived with ****ered drive-side bb threads, which won't securely hold an English-thread cup. I'm successfully using, and including with the sale, a VO Grand Cru threadless bb. Your other options would be to re-tap the bb threads Italian, or have a framebuilder lay in some brass and retap English, which would likely require a repaint.
$500 via paypal Goods & Services for frame, fork and bb; includes bikeflights shipping in the continental USA.
This is an eyelet-less road frame with decent tire clearance (true 28s fit fine), longish wheelbase and a spirited but well-mannered ride. BG confirmed the ser# indicates it was the 2nd frame built in Feb '78. Lotsa nice attention paid to thinning lugs and clean/graceful French-style fishmouth stay/drop treatment, but without the fancier asymmetric lug holes. Paint is close to an 8/10, overall very nice but with some notable rubs and chips inside the chainstays, atop the drive-side chainstay near the bb, and on the rear dropout flats, with some other smaller, scattered chips. The biggest flaws are less obvious when built up.
Dims (my measurements) are:
Frame: 5.1lb/2.3kg; fork: 1.7lb/0.8kg; f/f: 6.8lb/3.1kg
ST 73.1-deg, HT 74.5-deg
ST 61.0cm c-c, 62.5cm c-t
TT: 58.7cm c-c
Chainstay: 41.3cm, wheelbase 103.0cm
BB Height: 27.7cm (w/29mm tire)
BB drop: 70mm
Standover: 86.3cm/34.0"
Rear spacing: 125mm
Campy horizontal front/rear drops w/o eyelets
Takes 27.2mm post, a little snugly
I've attached a coupla pix of the built-up bike, More pix, including frame-only, on my flickr site here:
https://flic.kr/s/aHsjDHUjMR
Please PM with questions. I'm stuck in Salt Lake City after NAHBS due to the blizzard, will hopefully be back home late tomorrow night. I'll undoubtedly have some shoveling and decompressing to do once I get back, figure I can have the frameset ready to ship early next week.
If the consensus is a cleanish BG with ****ered bb threads isn't worth $500, I'll keep it and have a rebrass/repaint done. I guess that's me trying to nicely say I won't be responding to lower offers.
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Last edited by pcb; 03-17-17 at 11:27 PM. Reason: SOLD!
03-15-17, 12:00 AM
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Wow, that's pretty.
And While I don't absolutely require another frame right now, I think I'm going to send my friendly neighborhood frame bulder an email asking how he feels about rethreading a badly ****ered BB to Italian threads. Something like this could make me almost forget about the Moulton Fuso I allowed to slip through my fingers last year.
And While I don't absolutely require another frame right now, I think I'm going to send my friendly neighborhood frame bulder an email asking how he feels about rethreading a badly ****ered BB to Italian threads. Something like this could make me almost forget about the Moulton Fuso I allowed to slip through my fingers last year.
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03-15-17, 01:03 AM
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Nice frame. If it were smaller, I'd be digging under the couch cushions. Good luck with the sale.
03-15-17, 04:40 AM
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That's beautiful
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03-15-17, 09:18 AM
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Yup, send me a pm. If you don't have enough posts to send a pm, try emailing me at pcb at skyweb dot net.
But I'm flying today, so I might not be able to reply till late tonight or tomorrow, depending on how wiped out I am.
But I'm flying today, so I might not be able to reply till late tonight or tomorrow, depending on how wiped out I am.
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03-15-17, 11:02 AM
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I have always wanted a BG and yours is probably as close to finding one that will fit me outside of Bruce's personal collection. Unfortunately I thin it's an inch too short from my "I can try and make it fit" minimum.
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Shouldn't have let that stop you from tryin, this is a rare gift imho. 
03-16-17, 06:37 PM
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I like the seat cluster quite a lot. Nice bike, seems like a very good deal. Bike Forums continues to rock.
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