FOR SALE Geoff Roberts/Enigma collab SKINNY brand NOS road frame 56cm tt

My ongoing brutal clearout continues. This is a columbus steel road 700c rim brake frame, bsa bb, 1 1/8" head tube, takes a 27.2mm seatpost. The top tube c-c is 56cm, seat tube c-c is 56cm, head tube 140mm. It will take a 28mm tyre. It has mudguard eyes.

The skinny brand was never launched properly. It was intended to be launched by Enigma Titanium from Hailsham as an in house made steel road frame option. Named skinny because in contrast to titanium the tubes were much slimmer. The frame was made as part of a batch - this is frame number 23. The batch of lugged frames was brazed together by a combination of Enigma's then in house builder Sam and Geoff Roberts (brother of Chas Roberts of Roberts bicycles).

The frame has never been built up but there are some chips to the paintwork as it has sat around for a while. The frame is made from columbus tubing. It is a really nice frame and the intention was always to build it up but the bike stable is simply too full here so space must be found somehow! I hope it finally gets the chance to be built up and brings many happy miles to the rider.

After £180 posted or £160 collected from BN7.

Thanks
Rich

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I thought the ‘skinny’ brand were frames built by apprentices .. to give them enough practice before moving onto the custom stuff

That would make sense since Sam was apprenticed at and worked at Enigma, and has now gone on to co-found Windover Bikes.

40mm tyre clearance… interesting… I might be in touch

Sorry, scratch that. Just tried a wheel in to check with a 32mm tyre. It's too big. Although it's got incredibly wide spacing the brake bridge is low so will only fit a 28mm. My apologies.