Roberts Custom

balthazar
balthazar Posts: 1,565
edited January 2011 in Your road bikes
After yesterday subjecting my bike to off-roading down muddy tracks, being chased by a dog for a panicky (for me) half-mile, and fording a chainring-deep road "river", I gave it a clean – and here's the proof:

Roberts01.jpg

Roberts03.jpg

and one from a fine day last year:

Roberts02.jpg

Roberts frame, made for me in 2004 from fillet brazed Columbus Extra Leggeri oversize steel tubes. Most of the componentry is 2004 Campag Centaur – apart from the headset, chainset and BB, which are Record. The 12/25 cassette is whatever the current cheaper one is – I think Veloce; and a KMC chain.

Seatpost is Campag Chorus titanium; Fizik Arione saddle; Thomson stem. Wheels are Record hubs on Mavic Open Pro rims; tyres currently Specialized something.

Comments

  • beancounter
    beancounter Posts: 369
    Quality.

    bc
    2013 Colnago Master 30th Anniversary
    2010 Colnago C50
    2005 Colnago C40
    2002 Colnago CT1
    2010 Colnago World Cup
    2013 Cinelli Supercorsa
    2009 Merckx LXM
    1995 Lemond Gan Team
  • carl_p
    carl_p Posts: 989
    Beautiful bike.
    Specialized Venge S Works
    Cannondale Synapse
    Enigma Etape
    Genesis Flyer Single Speed


    Turn the corner, rub my eyes and hope the world will last...
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Nice. Like the relaxed geometry.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Daddy-o cool 8)
  • davelakers
    davelakers Posts: 762
    I like that...A LOT!!

    Stunning bike Sir.
  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    Thanks for your comments folks.
  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    Lovely. I must post my Roberts 9same vintage)
  • APIII
    APIII Posts: 2,010
    Lovely colour. Very nice indeed 8)
  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    mm1 wrote:
    Lovely. I must post my Roberts 9same vintage)
    Do! I look forward to seeing it. I only recently realised they've been maintaining a busy flickr page:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertscycles/
  • springtide9
    springtide9 Posts: 1,731
    What a great colour scheme for a bike (and a lovely looking bike!)

    I also have a thing about 'high quality steel'. The last time I saw something this pretty was down at Argos Cycles.
    Simon
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    springtide9 wrote:
    What a great colour scheme for a bike (and a lovely looking bike!)

    I also have a thing about 'high quality steel'. The last time I saw something this pretty was down at Argos Cycles.

    It looks nothing like the bikes you get in my local Argos :shock:
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,867
    NapoleonD wrote:
    springtide9 wrote:
    What a great colour scheme for a bike (and a lovely looking bike!)

    I also have a thing about 'high quality steel'. The last time I saw something this pretty was down at Argos Cycles.

    It looks nothing like the bikes you get in my local Argos :shock:

    the frame builders not the discount warehouse methinks
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,272
    Classy bike!
    left the forum March 2023
  • fungus_the_muffin_man
    fungus_the_muffin_man Posts: 1,608
    lovely bike. We were riding around the IOW last May and came across a group of roughly 8 all riding Roberts bikes. They were lovely looking rides.
    Bianchi. There are no alternatives only compromises!
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