The Roberts Cycles Handbuilt Bicycle Owners Club

So good

yay!

I know I’m chuffed!
@DrJohn got any pictures?
@MCamb not sure but hope so - will put up some better pictures and ask for help identifying what the tubes are. The seller had a tourer and track built at the same time and just asked Chas to build him a racing bike... he couldn’t recall what each tube was...
@amey 🎉

Here's one but without the fork (I have the fork): shortly to go to Geoff (Roberts) for restoration. Almost certainly built by Winston sometime around the mid 1980s (although no build records remain).
John.
N.B one of four Roberts I have, this one Columbus tubed.

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Thought I should post this, Roberts Cycles open day at Geoff's workshop in East Sussex, please email me (on the address in the link entry) if you'd like to attend - I've been helping Geoff with this event. Here's a link - http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/calendar.html
Just scroll down to see more details.
John

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It’s taken us a long time and there have been a couple of surprises along the way, but my son and I have just completed a complete breakdown, respray and rebuild of an early 90s Roberts. Thanks to Bob Jackson for the paint job and to Nick Gordon in Pewsey for valuable, yet freely-given, advice.

We think it looks great and it rides like a dream. I’ve already got a ‘83, pillar box red one, so we’re going posing together tomorrow..

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Good looking bike, enjoy your ride!

Looks great.

Lovely shade of blue...what tubing is it made of... Reynolds or Columbus or a mixture of both?

I suggest you get handlebar ends...can cause a nasty injury otherwise...think apple corer!

Greetings to all,
I'm pleased to have found this group. I purchased a C. Roberts used bicycle way back in 1978 in a shop in Cambridge Massachusetts. I have enjoyed riding it all this years, including Sunday last.
I look forward to read your posts and will take a couple of pictures to share with you.
Thank you
Emanuel.

Quick heads-up - there's going to be a Roberts event on Saturday 06 June 2020, the first weekend of National Bike Week, an afternoon ride around south London to see the various locations where Roberts Cycles existed, commemorating 100 years since the birth of Charlie Roberts, followed by a trip up to north London for a drink and the chance to see the shop with (almost certainly) the most Roberts frames currently in one place.

News and more details soon to go up on the Roberts website and twitter feed (@RobertsCycles). Please send an email via the Roberts website to the address on the home page if you are coming along, so we can gauge numbers. Hopefully, as in 2018, we'll have some competitions, some prizes and some insights from some of those associated with the man and the brand over the years.

Bring your favourite Roberts (or Roberts-built Condor, Evans, Pearson, Geoffrey Butler, Freddie Grubb, Claude Butler, Charlie Davey, Holdsworth or Phoenix, or related Geoff Roberts, Varonha or Six Four).

Hope to see some of you there!

Sounds good, hope to have finished my Roberts by then! I’ll most likely be riding in from Tunbridge Wells in the morning if anyone wants to join!

In other news I’ve got a pair of NOS threaded Roberts forks going spare if they are of interest to anyone? I’m after £90 which is what I paid for them

Cheers,
Matt

It is now unlikely that the 100 th anniversary events will go ahead in June. We will likely postpone to a later date and maybe have a photo share fest in the interim.
Please check for updates here and on lcc.org.uk/articles/roberts-cycles where we also hope to post further features about Roberts design features and builders. The LCC newsletter will likely carry updates as will the @RobertsCycles twitter feed

Out for a lockdown spin on my Roberts, grey day for it here in NZ.
excuse the saddle angle :/

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That’s a stunner! ceramic rims? Nice 👌

Perfect. Absolute beauty.

@mattyc - Yes they are Open Pro Ceramics to 7850 hubs done 1000's km but still solid as.

@t-v cheers!

Looks like my bikes have found their natural home in this thread. The black and red one was built for my dad in about 2001, on my urging. He was in danger of falling for a salesman’s spiel in the LBS and riding out on a carbon Scott or something, and for a gentleman then in his 70’s that would have been a bit unbecoming. So I got him to Croydon where he ordered this bike which he loved like another child, and rode twice weekly for about 16 years.

I found a way to order my own a couple of years later, having coveted Roberts bikes for years, so made my own trip to Croydon in my knackered Polo breadvan which I didn’t know would make it home again. It did, and a couple of months later I picked up the red frame, and built it up with scrimped and saved Campag bits, most of which are still on the bike many thousands of miles later.

I inherited dads one last year. I lightly restored it, rebuilt everything, and now use it for the kind of general bike riding which might now get called gravel. Both used regularly, both loved. I’ll post some better pictures and info if anybody is interested!

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Yes, always pictures! Especially of the general riding / gravel bike.

There were supposed to be a couple of pictures attached to that post, something must have borked. Some snaps from the last couple of days, I'll take some nicer pics soon:

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Both look in stunning condition ... very nice bikes. Thanks for sharing.

Mine and one of the wife’s (she’s got any red one with s and s in the shed.

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@mattyc any updates on your silver Roberts? just spotted it-very nice find

edit- just spotted your build thread

Both great looking bikes! I've been loving going through this thread