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My first Raleigh…..was a BMX Burner. There may have been a Grifter and/or a Chopper in the household but my memory of that is blurry at best.
My last Raleigh…..was a Winner - in junior size.
That is until now
With next to no knowledge of the Raleigh MTB product range other than the pale pink Mustang my mate had, and seeing what the pro team were riding in the early 90’s - those blue and yellow jobbies, I’ve never dabbled in Raleigh MTB ownership.
An opportunity arose recently to acquire “A Raleigh Dyna-Tech”, which was followed by a fuzzy non-drive side photo
of what appeared to me to be something of interest, and with the expert help of @Markybeau and @boy"O"boy I was confident that what I was looking at was a 1990/91 Dyna-Tech Pro, so a purchase was made
Doesn’t look too bad in the pictures, but I think it’s come to me just in time really as it clearly hasn’t seen a workshop in a long time.
Simple plan with this one will be to strip it right down, clean it as best I can, rebuild it, and enjoy it for a while before deciding if it has a permanent/long term place in my collection. I’ve got to say that I’m a fan of many bikes of this age - around the 1990 mark, so it stands a good chance of being a keeper.
The suggestion that the frame is the same as the Endeavour of the same vintage appears accurate from a few of the key details:
The specification is certainly not the Suntour XC Pro that it should have, but there’s evidence it may have been as the BB is a Suntour item.
At least it has the correct headset - albeit not yet undone…
For now it is just a frameset and a box of bits, but with a little luck and a smidge of time I should have this one up and running pretty quickly
My last Raleigh…..was a Winner - in junior size.
That is until now
With next to no knowledge of the Raleigh MTB product range other than the pale pink Mustang my mate had, and seeing what the pro team were riding in the early 90’s - those blue and yellow jobbies, I’ve never dabbled in Raleigh MTB ownership.
An opportunity arose recently to acquire “A Raleigh Dyna-Tech”, which was followed by a fuzzy non-drive side photo
of what appeared to me to be something of interest, and with the expert help of @Markybeau and @boy"O"boy I was confident that what I was looking at was a 1990/91 Dyna-Tech Pro, so a purchase was made
Doesn’t look too bad in the pictures, but I think it’s come to me just in time really as it clearly hasn’t seen a workshop in a long time.
Simple plan with this one will be to strip it right down, clean it as best I can, rebuild it, and enjoy it for a while before deciding if it has a permanent/long term place in my collection. I’ve got to say that I’m a fan of many bikes of this age - around the 1990 mark, so it stands a good chance of being a keeper.
The suggestion that the frame is the same as the Endeavour of the same vintage appears accurate from a few of the key details:
The specification is certainly not the Suntour XC Pro that it should have, but there’s evidence it may have been as the BB is a Suntour item.
At least it has the correct headset - albeit not yet undone…
For now it is just a frameset and a box of bits, but with a little luck and a smidge of time I should have this one up and running pretty quickly
