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1978 Robinson

Early production first generation Robinson

Recently found at a local swap meet. The owner mentioned it had been sand blasted twice over it's life but never repainted. He mentioned he had it since he was a kid and said it was a Robinson. I previously owned a 79 with the non stamped "R" gusset and was not aware that the first year had this style gusset.

cruiser76 · 2010-04-04 4:37pm

Belive it or not I have an earlier style robinson.Its a late '77with a different style gusset.I know it to be so because my friend Bill Anderson got a factory sponsorship here in Colorado from them when they were first getting going and had this first style frame that I have. Its squrriled away in the crawl space of my house right now with some other old stuff.I'm going to try to dig it out this summer and put some pics up of before and after restorations.Its a complete bike.Dura-ace cranks,7b's.

gibber! · 2010-05-05 4:28pm

I wanna see...!!!

808eastsidebmx · 2010-07-18 9:40pm

Me tooooooooooooo!

phusion X · 2010-09-14 7:09pm

Oh man, I came across one of these Robbi's from a guy who was a junker. My ignorance, pre-bmxmuseum told him it was a Ross! I'm sure it was scrapped days later

rydah · 2010-09-14 11:32pm

cruiser76 wrote:
Belive it or not I have an earlier style robinson.Its a late '77with a different style gusset.I know it to be so because my friend Bill Anderson got a factory sponsorship here in Colorado from them when they were first getting going and had this first style frame that I have. Its squrriled away in the crawl space of my house right now with some other old stuff.I'm going to try to dig it out this summer and put some pics up of before and after restorations.Its a complete bike.Dura-ace cranks,7b's.

does your 77 have the gusset with the circle in it.

maximum85 · 2010-10-20 7:45am

awesome piece of history

gibber! · 2010-10-20 11:53am

cruiser76 wrote:
Belive it or not I have an earlier style robinson.Its a late '77with a different style gusset....

I was wondering if this could be an LRV bike stickered up as a Robinson which I believe Chuck used first before having his own frames made...?

talonone1 · 2010-12-01 9:17pm

I picked up a complete robby like this today, my serial number on the BB is RGH055, can you tell me is your serial anything similar?

KenC · 2010-12-02 11:36am

talonone1 wrote:
I picked up a complete robby like this today, my serial number on the BB is RGH055, can you tell me is your serial anything similar?

I had an early 78 with serial number RLH021 It had the round hole gusset and a euro BB

1001surf · 2010-12-09 11:14pm

The Serial # of my Robinson frame is RGH 087.

hemidart1 · 2011-03-19 2:37pm

here is my original race bike BITD -'78 round hole gusset with euro bb.

rydah · 2011-03-19 9:31pm

nice looking bike. the ones with the round hole are super rare. do you still have that bike.

gibber! · 2011-03-20 1:51am

Cool picture...!

hemidart1 · 2011-03-20 9:54am

don't have the bike(I sold the frame and fork BITD) but rebuilt it using the parts I had saved-Redline V bars, seatpost, number plate, seat, seat post clamp, etc....and got a Scott Clark frame and fork serial number 12121
here it is now:

lou g · 2011-03-20 8:33pm

Very nice robinsons gentlemen, I have a '78 and looking for the prism R for the front of the head tube. Any idea's where to find one?

hemidart1 · 2011-03-21 4:24am

I repo the set.
I think i have a blue one in stock.

hemidart1 · 2011-03-21 4:24am

My decals are done from NOS sets that I have.

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