Okay, so I bought a.........Roberts

[retrobikeguy]

Great find!
Was there much nice stuff for sale?
Sadly I didn't make this year due to other circumstances .

Some really neat stuff, lots of really vintage bikes, recumberants :? , recycle cycles, tandems, mega cool 36"er from poetry in motion cycles, racing, day rides, beer......would be cool to have a retrobike stand next year tho

spoke to a nice chap who had some really neat trikes 'Icetrikes' with an elastomer rear suspension, turns out he has a proflex and got the idea from there......then got the same factory to supply them to him lol

Was better than previous years, new organisers this time.

RBG

 

[FluffyChicken]

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Also missed it as had a house to do, I'm checking over the pictures though.
Given the people that go there, they tend to know their stuff and custom is a normal bike.

This is the bike I was thinking of, not similarities of the little bits.

viewtopic.php?t=59318

 

[FluffyChicken]

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Okso as you Amy guess I've now search through 88/89 Roberts bike as that from when I thought it dated.

Found many with bottom bracket lugs, rack mounts etc but none with the longer wheelbase piched together stays
Just found this
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=278138 which shows some in use.

 

[Rod_Saetan]

That looks pretty similar in terms of those features, still not sure why they'd spec the rack and mudguard mounts on a Race bike though.

 

[sinnerman]

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Looks a lot like a Roberts Snow leopard to me.

 

[FluffyChicken]

That looks pretty similar in terms of those features, still not sure why they'd spec the rack and mudguard mounts on a Race bike though.

My 1991 Rocky Mountain Altitude, their race bike has a full compliment of rack mounts. Maybe some people just like them and use the bikes for other things?

 

[retrobikeguy]

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Looks a lot like a Roberts Snow leopard to me.

Heard little of these, and is very little out there...... is this it by chance? fork looks like it has the same clearance and rear end stays looks similar too.
RBG

 

[sinnerman]

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If im honest it was a long time ago I posted that pic, but from memory its a Spider.

The Snow Leopard had the same chainstays as yours, sloping top tube all fillet including fork, with lugged bottom bracket. it came with Columbus tubing , with a full compliment of rack and mudguard mounts. the bike was designed for allround use, and would have had a compliment of Deore spec.

 

[retrobikeguy]

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Golly gosh, you know your stuff don't you sinnerman

Well, it certainly ticks those boxes on all counts so sounding very positive, and certainly sounds like it was a roadie tourers try at the new fangled mountain style frames that has fallen by the wayside for love of his Hetchins. Do you know if there is any way of dating the year by means of the bottom bracket number or are they usually quite random numbers?

RBG

 

[MatBH5]

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YY (8 _ M (one or two e.g. 7= July, 11 = Nov) _ Build number that month...

Yours is second build in Sept '87

I think..!

Edit... and is very nice