Raleigh 8803 poor man's SBDU

Ecurie Peril

Raleigh Fan
Just picked this up on route to the Portsmouth ferry. I saw it some weeks ago but the asking price and cost of a return trip to Guildford from Derby made it uneconomical.
Move on a few weeks and some haggling with the vendor got the bike secured for a pick up en route to France.
A very quick look reveals a bad case of teenage acne on the frame but the Shimano 600 groupset and Mavic wheels look in pretty good nick
 

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Point of note, as we got off the ferry in France this morning there was a reasonable amount of cyclists doing the same. One guy stood out as he appeared to be on a Raleigh Quadra. Small world! Is it anyone off this forum?
 
A couple of days ago I got around to pumping up the tyres. The rear Hutchinson had split severely so I replaced it with a spare used zaffiro I had lying around. The front Hutchinson, although cracked Holdsworth pressure. So having swapped out the pedals for clipless I decided to take it for a ride...
 
Don't be alarmed I didn't end up in a ditch! The bike ran sublimely. The rear block indexed well and it rolled sweet as a nut. I did about 30km all of which were joyful. Some more cleaning of parts whilst I'm in France and contemplation of a paint job. A Team Castorama is my current choice
 

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As mentioned above cycle parts look very good, it just appears that things were so desperate at Raleigh the paint coverage is minimal.
 

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