Heavenly Carlton green goodness

[bagpuss]

Took a picture of this one a few years back at the CTC York weekend . {Carlton Track International}
https://www.flickr.com/photos/74418119@ ... otostream/

 

[sisyphus]

if ever a bicycle brand needed restarting!

 

[bagpuss]

They are still sold in Europe by Raleigh under the Carlton marque .

made in the Far East.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/74418119@ ... 480669472/

 

[sisyphus]

Noooo! I need lugs and chrome!!

 

[bagpuss]

if ever a bicycle brand needed restarting!

Plenty of bespoke builders still around in the Uk ,Mercians of Derby ,Bob Jacksons Leeds ,Swallow down Ironbridge to name but 3. Go on line for Richard Moon in the USA .
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=richa ... d=0CCAQsAQ. waiting time runs in months .

Chris at {Eddison cycles} ex Carlton man built stunning frames .
http://w90joe.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/end-of-era.


Swallow .
http://www.bicycles-by-design.co.uk/bra ... w-bespoke/

 

[sisyphus]

yea - I know. I was at the "Bespoked Bristol" event recently and the bikes that are being produced by small or even single person businesses, are amazing.
The thing about Carlton is that, for me , it feels like there was something tragic about the way it was assimilated into Raleigh and then eventually lost.

 

[Spokesmann]

if ever a bicycle brand needed restarting!

Id love to see this, I think Raleigh still own the name/brand, but fear it would never reappear in the UK. Raleigh had a lot of great brands at one time or another, and screwed them all over and in some cased had no idea what to do with them. I like to remember Carlton as they were.

 

[bagpuss]

Re:

Best left to the past...look what they did to Sunbeam
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... :1o3|bku:1

 

[sisyphus]

But if you could do what Planet X have done with Holdsworth?

http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/FRHOCYC/ho ... e-frameset

I know I've been critical of them but this is a nice job?

 

[sisyphus]

I love that Sunbeam