I recently won this repainted Raleigh (see attached pic) from eBay; the paint layer on the BB shell underside is a wee bit thick so I can't make out the frame number. However, it has double bottle bosses, rear rack mounts and a sloping crown often found on mid 80s-early 90s 531 Raleighs, whilst the seat stay caps have the serif all-caps "RALEIGH" embossed detail, so is fairly modern (the BB is designed to take a plastic gear cable guide plate too) in relative terms; to sum up, a lot of the little details seem common to my ca.1989/1990 Quadra II. Any ideas as to possible model? It has horizontal not vertical rear ends with single guard/rack eyes which seems to rule out one of these....
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....as well as the Royal or Randonneur. Interestingly, unlike all 3 of those models it's designed for bar-end levers only as there are no down-tube bosses, just brazed on head-tube gear cable guides of a pre-Ergopower type, much like an old-school CX machine....but it's clearly built for touring so isn't a CX bike of any sort! Front fork and rear frame dropouts are all stamped "RALEIGH" with screw adjusters on the horizontal rear ends. :?
Done a bit more digging - could well be a Gemini 18 hybrid??
David
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....as well as the Royal or Randonneur. Interestingly, unlike all 3 of those models it's designed for bar-end levers only as there are no down-tube bosses, just brazed on head-tube gear cable guides of a pre-Ergopower type, much like an old-school CX machine....but it's clearly built for touring so isn't a CX bike of any sort! Front fork and rear frame dropouts are all stamped "RALEIGH" with screw adjusters on the horizontal rear ends. :?
Done a bit more digging - could well be a Gemini 18 hybrid??
David