Raleigh frame identification help - 70s/80s? SBDU?

[Tricky1977]

Hi guys,

This is my first ever road bike that I’ve acquired as a swap.

It’s been repainted and hence has new stickers, but it claims to be 653 and possibly special products, something about the brazing too. Sorry I know very little about road bikes/Raleigh or Reynolds:/

Edit: are those dropouts Campagnolo?

 

[Tricky1977]

Re: Raleigh frame identification help

 

[Tricky1977]

Re: Raleigh frame identification help

Frame number reads: A32271

 

[Tricky1977]

Bump - would really like to know

 

[Midlife]

It's after SBDU closed and moved back to Nottingham, after my time but SBDU morphed into the Special Products Division which I think had a unique SPD head badge, the date can be gleaned from the frame number.

 

[Midlife]

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/301022/

Does it look like this one?

 

[Midlife]

I'm sure bikemeister2000 knew about these, maybe search some of his old posts, they only had the special head badge 1999-2001.

From my very fuddled memory "A" numbers are circa 1990

 

[Tricky1977]

Thanks Midlife.
Yes that one has all of the same features such as the lugs at the front and the Campagnolo dropouts “1010/A” I think they’re called
So it’s much later than I thought and “SPD” poss made in Worksop? Edit no

Edit: and yes it’s 1990!

 

[Midlife]

Worksop shut down years before your frame was made.....

 

[Pionir]

Re:

I bought one of these in 1993 from Geoffrey Butler Cycles as an off the peg standalone frame. Mine had Raleigh in a slightly different font but the frame number also started with A and the lugs look the same. I read somewhere they got a batch from Raleigh when they switched to making Dyna tech frames.