FS: Geoffrey Butler track frameset, full chrome, built by Charlie Roberts

Time to move on this beauty. It's a 1970s Geoffrey Butler (Geoff Roberts thought late '70s), built by Charlie (Chas) Roberts senior.

Classic aggressive '70s track geometry, which is pretty similar to modern track geo:
Seat tube 56cm c-t (54cm c-c)
Top tube 56cm c-c
Head tube 12.9cm
27.0mm seatpost
ENG threads
Matching numbers on frame and fork

It's a beautifully stiff frameset: Columbus PS (the thicker-gauge tubeset for sprinters and six-day riders); chunky non-tapered seat stays (a signature element on many Roberts track bikes of the era), as preferred by Ron Webb and the like.
Campagnolo ends finish it off.

I've had it for years, mainly on the wall. I did race it at Herne Hill and Preston Park in 2018. It's nice and stiff as steel goes. If it fitted me better, it'd be a forever bike.

The only small dent is at the bottom of the drive-side seat stay, right at the bottom. I didn't notice it until I was giving it a quick polish before I took photos.

The chrome looks absolutely superb in the sunshine. There is plenty of pitting and patina, as you'd expect from a frameset that's nearly fifty years old. It's ideal as a track or fair-weather bike; not ideal as a fixie hack.

£350 £300 posted, buyer to pay postage

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Here it is built up.

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More photos here

Stunning. One of the few occassions I wish I was a few inches shorter than I am.

Seeing as it's that time when everyone's saving for Xmas, I've dropped the price to £300 posted. I can't really go lower than that for a chrome track frame from Roberts senior.

Very nice! What’s the tyre clearance like? And is it drilled for an allen key brake?

It'll take 28c fine. I just stuck in a 28 front and 30 rear. The rear just had to be pushed back a centimetre or so.

It's drilled for a nutted front, but would be easy enough for someone skilled to redrill for recessed.

Was hoping to keep it in the LFGSS community, but I've now moved it elsewhere.

This is a beaut.

Lovely frameset.

Thanks chaps. If I don't sell it I'll MGOOF it with black components in spring.

Make it bigger and I'll buy it!