🇬🇧 Drunk buying (again)..... Roberts dogs bolx

[retrobikeguy]

If you were properly drunk you would have bought it for the saddle and convinced yourself it was an Apollo branded Ti Flite.

Super rare them things

 

[Hotwheels.]

Taper is much more pronounced.

 

[Hotwheels.]

Seat tube doesn’t taper at the BB.

 

[Hotwheels.]

Dropouts are different.

 

[Hotwheels.]

Cable routing, chainstay profile…

 

[MatBH5]

I had a later frame (even had a 1&1/8” headtube) with a seattube flair at the base, solid Ritchey dropouts, and a slightly ‘fatter’ monostay.

So I’m reserving judgement for now.

 

[retrobikeguy]

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

 

[MatBH5]

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

I’m a lover, not a fighter.

Besides… I’m just offering evidence, not a verdict.

 

[mk one]

I had a later frame (even had a 1&1/8” headtube) with a seattube flair at the base, solid Ritchey dropouts, and a slightly ‘fatter’ monostay.

So I’m reserving judgement for now.
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Did you have it chromed?

 

[retrobate]

I wouldnt put too much on things like dropouts & braze-ons on what is essentially a custom frame.

I hope that @Tomianson wont mind me reposting his pics of his previous DB. If you look at the top of the seat tube the details were changing.





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