hello all,
i just registered so i can comment!!!!
what a tremendous thread!! to get that bike and to find out it's history down to a youtube video is superb. amazing. i read every comment and viewed every picture. it's wondrous. youtube vid buffering now...
the reason i found it is i am the proud owner of what i believe is a white spider with the chainstay "bends" you mention. i originally thought it may be a dogsblyx but after days of trawling realised it must be a white spider.
the only history i know is that i bought it off someone who bought it off someone! i know roberts frames are custom built so the person who bought it must be the same size as me. it was, and will be again, perfect.
when i first got it, 1995-ish, i marvelled at the perfect welds. it was a thing of beauty. on scrutinising the pictures on this thread, i realise the one i have must be a later version. for example, around the bottom bracket area, your pictures show the entire region to be welded and smoothed, where mine has a seperate bb piece, which the frame tubes enter. also, the front derailler was cabled very smartly from beneath and ran around a large bearing on the back of the seat tube to come from above. very smart indeed.
the wheels which have been stolen (sob) where mavic rims with bullseye hubs. they were BRILLIANT!!! other parts i remember, shimano fc-m730 crank, dia compe brake levers, xt 7's light action shifters, ritchie bar ends (clamp in, not clamp on, also stolen), merlin handlebar, and suntour pedals. exage 300 deraillers. if my bed was big enough, i would've slept with it. so god knows whtn you're doing to yours!!! loooll!!
what a great read this has been.
uncannily enough, i remember staying up late once to watch one of these races, and this seems to be the exact same one!! (youtube clip).
the white spider world is tiny!!
peace!!!!
and thank you all. the internet is brilliant!!!!
paul.
i just registered so i can comment!!!!
what a tremendous thread!! to get that bike and to find out it's history down to a youtube video is superb. amazing. i read every comment and viewed every picture. it's wondrous. youtube vid buffering now...
the reason i found it is i am the proud owner of what i believe is a white spider with the chainstay "bends" you mention. i originally thought it may be a dogsblyx but after days of trawling realised it must be a white spider.
the only history i know is that i bought it off someone who bought it off someone! i know roberts frames are custom built so the person who bought it must be the same size as me. it was, and will be again, perfect.
when i first got it, 1995-ish, i marvelled at the perfect welds. it was a thing of beauty. on scrutinising the pictures on this thread, i realise the one i have must be a later version. for example, around the bottom bracket area, your pictures show the entire region to be welded and smoothed, where mine has a seperate bb piece, which the frame tubes enter. also, the front derailler was cabled very smartly from beneath and ran around a large bearing on the back of the seat tube to come from above. very smart indeed.
the wheels which have been stolen (sob) where mavic rims with bullseye hubs. they were BRILLIANT!!! other parts i remember, shimano fc-m730 crank, dia compe brake levers, xt 7's light action shifters, ritchie bar ends (clamp in, not clamp on, also stolen), merlin handlebar, and suntour pedals. exage 300 deraillers. if my bed was big enough, i would've slept with it. so god knows whtn you're doing to yours!!! loooll!!
what a great read this has been.
uncannily enough, i remember staying up late once to watch one of these races, and this seems to be the exact same one!! (youtube clip).
the white spider world is tiny!!
peace!!!!
and thank you all. the internet is brilliant!!!!
paul.
