Roberts Roughstuff

Little bit of progress today.

Offered up seat post, saddle, bars and stem.

Saddle is temporary, post will likely be replaced by a layback in silver.

Bars are Nitto B2520AA. They have a slight bend, which I find very pleasing.

Initial fit of Veloce Flat Bar Shifters:

Was going great guns, and popped down the shed to liberate a bottom bracket from another frame. This has proved to be more difficult than anticipated, so just off to see a man with a big vice.

Looks good! Wider tyres though?

Yep, 100%

Excellent. A friend has a gunmetal grey one which looks fantastic on wide marathon mondials and SKS guards.

@Jingle_Jangle Any update sir?

Missed this last time round. Love that colour. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

The frame looks like a Winston Vaz but you can check by looking at the back of the seat collar - a two pointed finish on the rear (single point at front) is the Winston marker. The 'holes' were used on some Roberts-built frames that were branded by sponsors.

Was reminded about this over on another thread.

Built it up some time ago, but for some reason didn't ride it much.

I dug it out at the weekend, and have been tooling around town on it. Much fun.

Need to sort out new (bigger) tyres, and a new saddle. Might fit guards and a rack for winter duties, but basically, it's done:

Love this bike.. and need to find something similar to ride round the mucky paths of East Kent.

That's a lovely Roberts. What's the ratio? Road gearing surely. If you ever fancy getting rid!