Raleigh: The Great British Bicycle Company

[bagpuss]

Cast back to March 2016 when James Cracknell set a distance of 35.1 k in 60 minutes on 1970s Raleigh Chopper .
The event took place at Lee valley velodrome . In aid of comic relief .

 

[bagpuss]

I brought this home yesterday evening. Free to a good home . I will replace the saddle, bar tape and one tyre . After that donating to local bike charity .

 

[Canuk]

I brought this home yesterday evening. Free to a good home . I will replace the saddle, bar tape and one tyre . After that donating to local bike charity .View attachment 961222

That's nice that, I'm about to rescue a Reynolds 501 Raleigh Panasonic from a certain trip to the dump. Is it just me or did ask the Raleigh's from this era suffer from a particularly shitty paint finish?

 

[bagpuss]

Yep it was bad . Sometime during the late 80s or 90s they invested in a new paint shop.
Sadly it did little to change the inevitable.
They really missed a beat with the M tracs mtb range . The Raleigh HB was just not cool enough for some folk .
The bikes were great IMHO. Mine rode really well .

 

[Mark south wales]

I got one for you guys, first ride, on my 1984 Holland Spec, Raleigh Superbe, im getting better at the videos, but not quite got doen the fancy camera angles yet

 

[Mark south wales]

servicing your raleigh`s epicyclic gearbox

 

[pigman]

ok guys, started stripping the twenty, if any body can beat Argos`s quote of 150 quid, to tap n trim the bottom bracket from 26 tpi to 24 tpi, i would love to hear it!

Just shave it and install a threadlesss BB. Ok, it's a bit butchery but it will sort it at a reasonable budget

 

[Mark south wales]

Just shave it and install a threadlesss BB. Ok, it's a bit butchery but it will sort it at a reasonable budget

i was thinking that, or some alloy cottered cranks, that`ll save 10 kilo there