Raleigh Dynaflite SBDU 753.... 'Manager Special'

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Frames being built at the SBDU with what looks like some prototype bikes lurking at the back of the workshop...

 

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It looks like 'King Alf' got a new drill for Christmas...

 

[Nob]

It looks like 'King Alf' got a new drill for Christmas...

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Frame design that Hotta took up when carbon came into use….

 

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Frame design that Hotta took up when carbon came into use….

It's a shame Raleigh didn't continue developing it...we may have got away from the diamond frame design we've been riding for the last 100+ years..

 

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[KermitGKona88]

It's a shame Raleigh didn't continue developing it...we may have got away from the diamond frame design we've been riding for the last 100+ years..

Don't be silly the UCI would never condone that...

 

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The team behind the Team at the Specialist Bicycle Development Unit after Joop Zoetemelk's victory in the 1980 Tour de France. Joop's winning bike is reunited with the team at the SBDU with Raleigh's Chairman and Managing Director Ian Phillips, Mike Mullet, Gerald O'Donovan, Alan Oakley and the rest of the team raising a glass..

 

[Nob]

Liking the old school center lathe in the background similar to those that I learned on back in the late 70’s

 

[Mark Manley]

Liking the old school center lathe in the background similar to those that I learned on back in the late 70’s

Looks like an early Colchester Student/Master.

 

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I think this Carbon fiber Carlton is another one of the prototype bikes lurking at the back of the workshop...