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Centenary ride: DIY and virtual ride to all the Roberts London locations https://www.lcc.org.uk/articles/diy-roberts-centenary-ride.
This was the ride planned for the centenary of Charlie Roberts' birth before Covid struck. The after party was going to be hosted at Hackney Peddler where you can still find two dozen vintage Roberts frames of all ages. Maybe we'll try again next year.

Surely a Roberts given the fastback cluster, curved seat tube and fillet brazing. Numbering fits: year month etc. Popular colour scheme was the blue pink fade but Mavic matching , black frame/yellow decals and trimmings was seen as well. Tubing was likely Columbus but a mix is also possible. Winston might know. Enjoy.

Roberts Centenary events planned for June 6th postponed till a later date. Followers of this thread will recall the planned ride to all the Roberts workshops and the planned after party at Hackney Peddler (where the world's largest Roberts collection hangs from the ceiling). We had hoped most of the Roberts builders would turn up but Covid has put a spoke in the wheel of the event. We will announce a new date as soon as possible. Updates will be posted on the Roberts history page https://lcc.org.uk/articles/roberts-cycles and on this thread.

It is now unlikely that the 100 th anniversary events will go ahead in June. We will likely postpone to a later date and maybe have a photo share fest in the interim.
Please check for updates here and on lcc.org.uk/articles/roberts-cycles where we also hope to post further features about Roberts design features and builders. The LCC newsletter will likely carry updates as will the @RobertsCycles twitter feed

user 72944 - lovely job but why 110 Trewsbury and not 21?

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The frame looks like a Winston Vaz but you can check by looking at the back of the seat collar - a two pointed finish on the rear (single point at front) is the Winston marker. The 'holes' were used on some Roberts-built frames that were branded by sponsors.

Very sad. One of the comments on the website of the local paper says he was on foot.

Re s4ncobra 753 question. Very unlikely. 88 would be year 7 month and 53 number. Where Roberts added letters and numbers eg postcode, this was usually along side the frame number. Weigh it and see.

Re frame number NR 85 326. This isn't typical Roberts . They did not use letters unless requested by the customer eg. a post code. If it's a Roberts perhaps it could be the owners initials. The frame number indicates 1985 March frame number 26. Winston Vaz (now at Vaz workshop) would have been working there at the time so he may know . Most Roberts fork crowns at the time would have had an R on them and same goes for the bridge as noted above.

Long history of Roberts posted on the LCC website !{}http://lcc.org.uk/articles/roberts-cycles - based on article in the Boneshaker (VCC magazine)