Robin Mather

And gravel suspension fork.

Basically turn it into a front suspension flat bar gravel bike.

Basically turn it into a front suspension flat bar gravel bike

I cannot think of any reason I'd want to do that.

Well, you do now run London's premier gravel forum

Well it's had gravel tyres on it for ages, and it is a kinda gravel tourer... but suspension when I have custom forks that have a small rack integrated?

Oh no, I'd totally ignore Ed there

Custom steel fork > bouncy nonsense

I suddenly remembered your green RM and looked him up, seems like his business stopped trading a few years back. Anyone know why he jacked it in?

Also: FUCKING HELL 15 YEARS WHAT

Wasn't he teaching at Bicycle Academy? which I believe has also now folded.

Don't weep for Andrew tho.

Ah, that’s a shame- on multiple levels.

He sort of has my old job at the Bartlett School of Architecture teaching fabrication. I went back there October last year and met him. He seemed happy in his new role and brought his framebuilding jig to the students workshop so I think he is still making bikes for himself.

Some photos of my Robin Mather from today, as I did promise to provide an update.

Changed since the original pics:

• BB + crankset
  
• Grips
  
• Brakes have been updated (latest change)
  
• De-stickered the wheels and moved to standard spokes
  
  

Otherwise unchanged... still a very smooth and fast ride, capable of all terrain, but truly glorious just cruising flat and rolling country at a good clip. Can do the shopping on it, go to the pub on it, and have done a Dunwich there and back on it (though not as part of the DD night, hence the back part... just set out one day, didn't stop, got to the coast, pub meal and back later that day).

I still love this bike so much, and you can tell from the small dings I still use it and it's not something I hang on a wall just to look at.

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Noice - I remember thinking bitd that it was a mistake not having greater tyre clearance but there appears plenty

I mean... the fenders can be removed and full 29er big mountain bike tyres can go on there.

With the fenders it's limited to the larger gravel tyres... there's a deceptive amount of clearance.

Cool - for some reason I remember it as only taking road tyres. Love it even more now

That looks so good. Matching racks are super cool and the S&S very special. Edited to say : belt-compatible and Rohloff too! Wow.
Thanks for bringing the thread to the top.
I recently picked up a Mather which was shared in ‘non-eBay’ thread on-here, and immediately did a debut run up to Stonehenge for the solstice last month.
Needs some tweaks (e.g. oddly it has v-levers and canti brakes, so the lever feel is on/off and needs a really firm hand), and I’ll post more -and better photos when that’s done.
However the attention to detail and quality in the frame is really clear.

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those were the frames he loved to make the most, he used to give discounts if you took rack mounts and made the bike suitable for a long life of use.

after making mine he said "yeah, never again"... because the amount of work was crazy (I did overpay to make up for that!), but he loved building bikes that were more like Thorns, these universal touring bikes.

yours is really nice, looks like it's dead comfortable for long days on the road.

Thank you - that’s interesting.
I actually spotted my bike in the background of a Bespoked ‘meet the maker’ from 2012.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiDNuH0xYEw

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