Raleigh Apex Frame £12 - Kidlington

[Kona-Ian]

Don't know, mine looks like this.

 

[Jaggs]

Well that's how mine look, and in that pic, that great big bolt is next to a hole. Happy to be corrected.

If someone did want an Apex, I'm sure that this is one, and not a 'Gravity' as listed:


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raleigh-grav ... SwTzJe4TuA

I was tempted to buy that £12 frame and the bits he has, but quite frankly, that would be the fourth of these I have, and I would probably have divorce on my hands.

 

[lensmansteve]

So does my Summit. About that chainstay bridge that isn't- I removed mine completely prior to a respray. Before that, I'd removed the bridge from my Montage, and my Moonrun too. 501 frames are bombproof, stiff frames anyway, and I thought it might allow the chainstays to flex a bit more. Perhaps it does, but they're all still pretty darn rigid.. Seatstay bridge next then?
I like K2 frames. Incredibly undervalued, and a lot nicer than a lot of folk seem to think.

 

[Kona-Ian]

Yes, seen that one Jaggs.
Steve, probably looks better removed, don't see the point in it.

 

[lensmansteve]

Think it goes back a long long way, when bikes had mudguards fitted in the factory. Old time steel mudguards I'm thinking. Even old type narrow plastic mudguards needed them. They do effectively stiffen the chainstays, if only by a little. The fact that good old Raleigh effectively dropped the bridge for the K2s and of course they aren't fitted at all to a lot of frames makes me think they're not ever important "structural" elements.
The framemaker Tony Oliver writes about the bridge in his book "Touring Bikes", amongst other much more important things of course. Good book, well worth a look.

 

[xxnick1975]

Re:

I agree K2 frames are great.

I think this has been stolen at some point as it looks like a post code stamped on the bottom bracket has been ground off

I’ve got mint DX groupset that I reckon would be just right for this bike- shame no postage