Thank you. XWhat a lovely old thing. And your bike is pretty sweet too
al.
1988 Raleigh Mirage
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al.
Reading about this 23" Raleigh also brings back memories of how most of the budget MTB's in the late 80's/early 90's seemed to be very large frames?
It seemed to be the way that teenagers buying their first MTB, if it was a budget brand (Raleigh, Peugeot, Emmelle, etc), would end up with 21" or 23" frames, whereas all the cool higher end MTB's were usually around 18" to 20".
I have one painful memory of rocking up to York Cycleworks on my 21.5" Peugeot circa 1990. Back then you could park your bike in the front of the shop rather than leave it outside. So my clunker is parked next to all these exotic 18" Trek's, Specialized, etc. One of the shop assistants saw my bike and said 'do you need a ladder to get on that?'
It seemed to be the way that teenagers buying their first MTB, if it was a budget brand (Raleigh, Peugeot, Emmelle, etc), would end up with 21" or 23" frames, whereas all the cool higher end MTB's were usually around 18" to 20".
I have one painful memory of rocking up to York Cycleworks on my 21.5" Peugeot circa 1990. Back then you could park your bike in the front of the shop rather than leave it outside. So my clunker is parked next to all these exotic 18" Trek's, Specialized, etc. One of the shop assistants saw my bike and said 'do you need a ladder to get on that?'
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He looks a tad taller here ...?
