Thanks for all your replies (Jim, Kermit, mk one) this was very helpful. Makes sense that this might have been a new old stock frame that some one put a bunch of components on sold to my father in law and then was left in a shed for 15 years.
I did manage to catch the quick release being...
Hello,
I am posting to see if anyone can help me identify if the Raleigh road bike we found in my father in law's shed. On the surface it appears to be a completely untouched 1987 Raleigh road bike. My father in law says that he bought it 10-15 years ago, but that only takes us back to 2006...