It is September 14 2015 and I am getting ready for the opening of GroupJ.net. I have targeted the Hopworksbeer handmade bike and beer fest October 3-4, hosted by HUB microbrewery in Portland Oregon to launch my product. Many of you know that Portland is a cycling meca. Davis CA is the only place where I have seen more bicycles. I spent the summer in Portland, visiting my daughter Jenni and her family, and have had the opportunity to ride all over the city and surrounding hills. Portland loves their bikes and they seem to take care of them. Of the bikes on the road, I would estimate that over 60% are vintage steel frame bakes. The single speed minimalist bike is also very popular in Portland with a lot of newer tig welded chromoly frames.
So Portland is the ideal place to introduce GroupJ’s BFCs. We will introduce our BFCs to the many custom frame builders at the Handmade Bikes and Beer Festival. If you are in Portland please look for us.
Introducing JBob...........Jenni insisted that the BFC product needed a name. We came up with several like Jloc, JCon, JCup; short catchy names and some of them described the product to a degree, but nothing quite stuck.
Where did we get JBob? Well that’s my dad, christened John Robert James he went by the name JBob. JBob was a mechanical engineer, his specialty was aircraft bearing design, and he was on the design team for the liquid oxygen pump on the Atlas booster rocket engine that got Neil Armstong on the moon. JBob was a motorcycle and car enthusiast and appreciated a good design. JBob was always looking for the simple, elegant solution, so his is a fitting name for our first product.
“GroupJ” grew from a need for a family email address, and referred to my James family. I got that idea from Bob Tullius’ Group 44 Jaguar racing team which was a David throwing stones at, (and occasionally felling), the mighty Porsche 956s Goliaths in the IMSA series.
So JBob is the first. My dream is that there are many more to come.
So Portland is the ideal place to introduce GroupJ’s BFCs. We will introduce our BFCs to the many custom frame builders at the Handmade Bikes and Beer Festival. If you are in Portland please look for us.
Introducing JBob...........Jenni insisted that the BFC product needed a name. We came up with several like Jloc, JCon, JCup; short catchy names and some of them described the product to a degree, but nothing quite stuck.
Where did we get JBob? Well that’s my dad, christened John Robert James he went by the name JBob. JBob was a mechanical engineer, his specialty was aircraft bearing design, and he was on the design team for the liquid oxygen pump on the Atlas booster rocket engine that got Neil Armstong on the moon. JBob was a motorcycle and car enthusiast and appreciated a good design. JBob was always looking for the simple, elegant solution, so his is a fitting name for our first product.
“GroupJ” grew from a need for a family email address, and referred to my James family. I got that idea from Bob Tullius’ Group 44 Jaguar racing team which was a David throwing stones at, (and occasionally felling), the mighty Porsche 956s Goliaths in the IMSA series.
So JBob is the first. My dream is that there are many more to come.
Group 44 Jaguar Racing Team
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