Older Roberts filet brazed frame information sought please

[Darcus]

I came across this today, it's a tallish fillet brazed 26er in Columbus tubing, the fork is the non unicrown brazed type, almost like a biplane fork with reinforcement as part of the casting. It's going to be a reasonable price too. There's an 87 on the frame stamp on the BB. No name, just Roberts and the Columbus decals.....Any good?

 

[JCS]

If it’s a Roberts then it’s a custom made frame, so should be top quality.
Roberts frame numbers are typically 6 digits; first two are the year and second two are the month.
Worth checking the spacing of the drop outs so you know what width hubs to use.

 

[Takingabreak]

It's a very nice frame - as long as the rust isn't too bad. No doubt there will be some Roberts gurus coming along soon to confirm which model.

Nice long headtube for the taller gent @Tootyred

 

[The History Man]

Chainstays are scaring me.


Nice size.

 

[Tootyred]

Very nice..

 

[Kempes]

I came across this today, it's a tallish fillet brazed 26er in Columbus tubing, the fork is the non unicrown brazed type, almost like a biplane fork with reinforcement as part of the casting. It's going to be a reasonable price too. There's an 87 on the frame stamp on the BB. No name, just Roberts and the Columbus decals.....Any good?
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I came across this today, it's a tallish fillet brazed 26er in Columbus tubing, the fork is the non unicrown brazed type, almost like a biplane fork with reinforcement as part of the casting. It's going to be a reasonable price too. There's an 87 on the frame stamp on the BB. No name, just Roberts and the Columbus decals.....Any good?
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Please let me know if this frame doesn’t work out for you, looks big enough for me.

 

[retrobikeguy]

As said, frame number will give you a build date but nothing else, it's in a really good man size though and it's got a cast crowned fork which are usually quite narrow (can't tell from the image) have you tried a fat front tyre in it yet? Other than that it's nice and woulda made a really cool 26 inch wheel tourer if it wasn't for the fact that it has no rack mounts.

 

[Rikoned]

Could the fork crown be a Cinelli OR ?
If so approx. 70mm internal

Same as the bike in this thread?
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/la-mia-cinelli-rampichino-del-1985.265806/

 

[Darcus]

Could the fork crown be a Cinelli OR ?
If so approx. 70mm internal
View attachment 900152
Same as the bike in this thread?
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/la-mia-cinelli-rampichino-del-1985.265806/

YES! its just the same!

 

[narcotitlan]

That’s an absolute beauty and those fork crowns are really nice. A real nice change from the usual tandem/harden/Tange crowns of that era.