Roberts

Roberts Cycles

After WW2 Charlie Roberts worked for Holdsworth, Claud Butler and Freddie Grubb as a frame builder. In the early 1960s he started Roberts Cycles in Croydon. He was soon joined in the workshop by his sons Chas and Geoff. In 1979 Charlie died and his son Chas took over, Geoff had become one of the foremost frame builders working there and sometimes built frames under his own name. 

British rider Tony Doyle won two professional World Pursuit Championships in 1980 and 1986 on Roberts frames.

In 2015 Chas retired and the business at Gloucester Road, Croydon, was closed. Roberts Cycles then relocated to the Sussex coast, where Geoff Roberts continues the family business, building and repairing frames today.