For Sale: Roberts 531 Roadframe from 1980

For sale one very clean Roberts road frame.

I bought this on ebay about 4 years ago. In that time I have ridden it twice.
It therefore needs a new home and to be ridden instead of collecting dust in my loft.

As part of the ebay sale, I was given the original sales receipt from ‘Roberts Frames’ dating it to 1980 and built for a man living in Croydon for the sum of £146.

According to the receipt it is made of Reynolds 531DB. There are no decals to back this up but it takes a 27.2 seatpost so I have no reason to question this.

The frame being 32 years old is in remarkable condition and does appear to have not been used in anger at all. There are a few marks on it around dropouts and the odd small paint chip. I have retouched up the area around the seat binder bolt as this had some paint flaking off.

Dimensions are:

Front / Rear dropouts are 100 / 126
Seat tube 57 CTT
Top tube 56 CTC
Head tube 15
Takes 700c wheels
Short reach brakes nutted
The geometry is standard road angles
Campag dropouts, nice semi sloping fork crown engraved R, very fine gold lug lining.

I had Chas Roberts install a new Stronglight A9 headset when it went in for an alignment check. It also comes with a NOS Campag Nuovo Record bottom bracket. 114mm double. I can remove this if not required.

Stunning blue with old style decals.

Looking for £175 which is what I bought it for.

Collection SE6 or I can deliver to Victoria, Waterloo, London Bridge.

dibs pending viewing

That looks lovely.

Interesting.
My broom is made of genuine 531 too.

so nice

That is hot!

175 is a bargain.

Damn my short legs..

Bump.

Now sold