For Sale 1981 Raleigh Record Ace Frameset Worksop Built Full Reynolds 531

[ferrus]

Surprised that this is Worksop built. I understood that the scooped seatstay caps and Haden Royal Sovereign lugs were introduced in Nottingham. My 1980 Worksop RRA is quite different.
Nice frame either way.

 

[RetroDavy]

I realise this is wholly academic with regard to this particular frame but I found this webpage really helpful when dating/placing my own two 1981 Nottingham-built frames, one Raleigh, one Carlton. Might help anyone who stumbles across the thread in future.

Raleigh Frame Numbers 1973 Onward. Worksop Carlton and Nottingham Lightweight Unit Frames, Specialist Bicycle Development Unit (SBDU) and Raleigh Special Products Division » My TI-Raleigh SB4059

This isn’t intended to be an Internet resource of Raleigh frame numbers! If you are reading this for anything other than SB number sequences from the SBDU then please make sure you corroborate my information with other resources. This blog post covers a basic background of things I’ve learnt...

raleigh-sb4059.com