Steve Roberts' bikes on display over Xmas at Wanganui

[jellywrestler]

there'll be half a dozen or so Steve Roberts built bikes at the art gallery on taupo quay from tuesday till 5th jan, within walking distance of the cemetery circuit and open boxing day.
free entry so get along and have a gander folks, race bikes as well as a Roberts built chopper and scrambles bike from the sixties.

[sidecar bob]

Did he build the Spartan scrambler bikes?

[jellywrestler]

Did he build the Spartan scrambler bikes?

yip sure did

[Shaun Harris]

These will be very cool to see again, been a long time

[sidecar bob]

yip sure did

I understood they were very close to a Rickman Metisse?

[jellywrestler]

I understood they were very close to a Rickman Metisse?

no idea really, it was tough importing bikes in those days, there were a lot of restrictions on trade so Steve made himself a bike, and someone else liked it and asked for one and it just snowballed.
the differnce is Rickman made 17000 metisse's Roberts made less than twenty Spartans.

[scrivy]

there'll be half a dozen or so Steve Roberts built bikes at the art gallery on taupo quay from tuesday till 5th jan, within walking distance of the cemetery circuit and open boxing day.
free entry so get along and have a gander folks, race bikes as well as a Roberts built chopper and scrambles bike from the sixties.

Will the Kippen chair be there?

[jellywrestler]

Will the Kippen chair be there?

nah, the whole show was confirmed about six weeks ago, andy's not in the country till after boxing day so hasn't been near the bike since the show was confirmed, i do have the rear end in my shed to sort some issues with, so it's a step closer.

[Shaun Harris]

nah, the whole show was confirmed about six weeks ago, andy's not in the country till after boxing day so hasn't been near the bike since the show was confirmed, i do have the rear end in my shed to sort some issues with, so it's a step closer.


Loved his chair

[AllanB]

Must be getting old - needed Google to remind me who he was .....

Build better stuff than Orange County Choppers ...... :niceone:

[Duke girl]

Big thanks,Spyda , would have missed those if we had not read it on here.

[BMWST?]

there were a couple of his bikes at Ray Witham funeral,i didnt look at them but the plastic fantastic and the aluminium monoquoque i think

[RDJ]

There will also be a bike display at the Wanganui Fire Station for their 150th anniversary

Full disclosure, one of my bikes will be there :-)

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/wanganui-chronicle/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503426&objectid=11563355

[Rcktfsh]

I understood they were very close to a Rickman Metisse?

Nicer in my unbiased opinion.

[sidecar bob]

Nicer in my unbiased opinion.

It looks a little like it has an identity crisis if I could be so bold.
Perhaps the worlds first motard.

[scrivy]

Nicer in my unbiased opinion.

Hey fatty, you're bending the swingarm.............:shutup:

[Rcktfsh]

Hey fatty, you're bending the swingarm.............:shutup:

Harsh Scrivy very harsh.

[jellywrestler]

Nicer in my unbiased opinion.

is that from the movie; Rebel without a clue?

[Rcktfsh]

is that from the movie; Rebel without a clue?

nah back when I was giving Fonzie tips on shark jumping.

[Paul in NZ]

Wish I had realised what my fake rickman was back in the day - I sold it to buy a real one... d'oh

[Grumph]

Wish I had realised what my fake rickman was back in the day - I sold it to buy a real one... d'oh

Guy down here turned up with what he thought was a small Metisse chassis and wanted me to use it as the basis for a build.
I knew what it was, a guy in ChCh built around six of them, used copied Rickman fiberglass. The small Honda single in it tended to give it away a bit....
I think he's still got it tucked away in a shed. A few more years and it may have value.