Older Roberts filet brazed frame information sought please

[Tsundere]

Gorgeous package, and the paint still has plenty of vibrancy, if the rust is only superficial once cleaned up the patina will look amazing.

 

[pwebb]

great find and will restore beautifully , unicrown forks came along later so this design of forks was de-rigeur early 80s up till around 86, 87 ish and it also probably indicates hand built frame construction using frame tubing that has to be brazed and cant be TIG welded.
quality like this is becoming increasingly hard to find

 

[Darcus]

So I've bought it now, going to try and keep the original finish and slowly restore, I've got a six speed set up to install from around this era and some lovely mavic oxygen rims with a nice silver finish.

 

[Tootyred]

I assume its geometry is for drops? You going to go with that?

 

[Darcus]

I assume its geometry is for drops? You going to go with that?

Yeah it does look that way, but I think I'll go with flat bars of some sort. I'll try a few options.

 

[27motorhead]

This is such super yummy frameset! Don't forget to start a build thread in the Readers MTB section so we can all keep up to date on progress...

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/forums/readers-mtbs-1997.6/

 

[Tootyred]

You may need a tiller instead of a stem!

It works ok, ive got one designed for drops, i just use a 150mm stem.