The Roberts Cycles Handbuilt Bicycle Owners Club

Bless. RIP.

My condolences.

My family has a bit of a Robert cycles habit...

My Dad's 531st Transcontinental Tourer, which he's had from new about 20 years ago.

My Dad's second hand 631 Road bike before and after reinstating the original lugged fork and sorting out the cockpit.

There's also my Mother's s/h 853 Audax Super compact, my fillet brazed 725 Road frame (thread here), and my little brothers 531 road frame. (pics to come)

As promised here are pics of the rest of the stable...

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No longer an owner unfortunately. Now newly improved by Hunterlar.

But here's a pic anyway...

(sorry for the hipstermatic pic)

http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/7240/mtge4owers1.jpg
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/7941/mtge4owers2.jpg

I have been riding this for a year but only posting it now... Pleasure to ride!

Built in 1971 and still going strong...

My old bike back in the day

My Current Project, currently looking for dura ace 8 speed levers

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-SHIMANO-Down-Tube-Gear-Shifter-Boss-Curved-PAIR-/190695120374?pt=AU_Sport_Cycling_Parts&hash=item2c66509df6

and

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SHIMANO-DOWNTUBE-SHIFTER-LEVER-LEVERS-PARTS-6229113-NOS-/290471541812?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43a173fc34

there you go mate , good luck.

So I've finished my Roberts road bike:

More details and photos here: http://www.lfgss.com/thread83715-2.html

Hello - apparently I can't do a new post.... So.

STOLEN ROBERTS ROUGHSTUFF'S! If you see either of these please let me know!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lapsednun/7621163926/in/set-72157630693265208

http://www.lfgss.com/thread123-181.html

Post it over there, it'll get more exposure.

ooh bad luck lazydog, that's gotta hurt.

PS whereabouts were they nicked?

My old bike back in the day

Really spooky.
I have just realised that I may have bought this off of you around 1995. Somewhere in West London?
It saw London courier duty for 18months. Sadly the frame got destroyed in a house fire in 1997.
I am still using the c record cranks, ma40 rims ,seatpost, front and rear mechs and gear levers.

Just finished my Roberts Lo-Pro build:

More details here.

It took me ages to piece together the groupset. The completionist in me says to get a rear shamal rather than the 16-hpw vento, and I might swap the volare saddle out for a flite ti - other than that I'm pretty stoked and it rides like a bat out of hell.

That looks lovely mate, another stunning example of the marque.

All these pretty & cherished bikes - hope you don't mind if I ruin it with a munter. Early 70's TT frame will be my next big project - I'm planning an ugly duckling rolling rebuild, riding and getting it set-up as a rat and then getting it resprayed and making everything shiny and new....

Cross post from my CP thread:

Update on my Roberts as it stands now. The spec is the same but now with Welago road spds courtesy of Apollo, and a Thomson seatpost and Flite Max saddle both picked up from the forum. The groupset and wheels have bedded in nicely, with the 25mm tires giving me some comfort over some of Londons crappy roads.

Will take some proper pics soon, but for now here's an iPhone snap.

That a new roberts decal? Looks a bit better than the last one.

Though why the hell they don't go back to the Clarendon type font (like that lovely red track bike up there^^^..) I'll never know.

I feel certain that it would work really nicely on modern style frames as well as vintagey ones.

That a new roberts decal? Looks a bit better than the last one.

They're just some decals the last owner made up after a re-spray.

I think the latest Roberts decals are these ones: