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This was red previously, right?
What needed the repair?
It’s a lovely frame!

Lordy this is nice.

Yeah, it was red. Full build a few pages back, I think.
I had an unplanned meeting with a rock one early winter’s morning. Dinged the top tube very good. Continued to ride around with it like that for a good few months (probably shouldn’t have seeing it now). But the coup de grâce was getting head on’d by a tit on an e-scooter drinking a can of Tennant’s Super going full bore down an underpass. Bent a fork blade at the canti stud.
Had both the top tube and fork blade replaced. Had a mudguard eye fitted to the underside of the fork crown and pump pegs added to non drive seat stay while it was in.

Please excuse the tyres, I was riding it through winter at the time. Gonna try to not do that anymore.

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Who did the work /paint?

Geoff Roberts. Recommended - fillet brazing is flawless and the paint is superb.
I supplied the transfers via H LLoyd as Geoff didn't have the 'dog's head'R version.

Great to know that Geoff is repairing / building again.

I guess paint will have been Dave at Colourtech.

I have always coveted that frame.

This reminds me that I still have the files for the proper 'dogs head R' version if anyone is interested.
Painstakingly recreated by the gentle genius that was Big Daddy Wayne many years ago : (

Lovely tube profiles there - Max?

I think that’s what were sent to H Lloyd?

@Mat-CR Yeah, Max with 531 forks. It was specced like this by the original owner along with 3 bottle cages and cantis for Audax and light touring.

Thanks for the detail, that’s quite the spec for audax and touring. I’ve got a few old Roberts catalogues and the Max frame prices were right at the top end!

Ace. Any photos in the catalogues? Would love to see, if so.

Will take some snaps at the weekend!

Oh cool - I got mine printed with H Lloyd many years ago and wasn't sure if they'd kept the files.

Weird that they insist on only listing the rubbish ones when they have the good ones as well.

Somebody 'on here' needs to buy this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295753305613

I think I just saw my old Roberts Lo-Pro, that was a 5 Scoblebrick monster when I had it, leant up against Herne Hill station, with an Islabike for company.

It had some crazy ape hanger bars on it that turned it into a dad bike.

Amazing!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295753305613

so good!

Hello Roberts fans!
I have had my 1984 Chas Roberts repaired by Winston Vaz. I then took it to Fox Plating in Sydenham to be chromed (hopefully picking it up tomorrow).
Now I need to find a painter who can actually get the colour scheme right. There is a nice Roberts for sale on eBay now and I want a very similar paint job. It's very much a Motorola copy.
But who can I trust?
Argos seem good but the prices are really high!

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Mario Vaz? 🤷‍♂️

Yes Matt, Mario would be the logical choice, but when the frame had been repaired I was going to get it chromed.
I collected the frame and Mario had sprayed it with primer. So I had to take it to be stripped which cost me another £40 and more running around.

Colourtech dartford perhaps?

I'd go with Argos. The prices are actually fairly reasonable for what you get. A paint job from some of the newer bespoke paint companies will be £1000-15000. The finish from those people will be amazing but Argos will be fine.

Mario will do it cheaper but his paint does chip easily (something to do with legal changes around the use of stove enamel?) and the finish isn't always perfect on complicated designs.

Rourke and mercian two more good option but quite far oop norf

Adrian at Six Four frameworks uses colour tech usually, and has the original branding stencils and head badges. 👌

https://sixfourframeworks.com/

I think they were historically the firm that roberts used, geoff roberts still uses them too.