SBDU Raleigh Maverick Pro

[rayfenwick]

Really like these early Mavericks, I’d have had a bid if it were closer to home.

I’m sure I remember seeing one in the original National Cycle Museum in Lincoln back in the ‘80s as an example of the “Mountain Bike Craze”!

I'll definitely have one - if not two - Mavericks available soon, so you may be in luck

 

[Tsundere]

Here's a large one, one day to run and sitting at a bidless £45 right now
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raleigh-Maverick-retro-mountain-bike/275166459734

 

[Synthiaks]

Good score! Quality under the radar frame and some nice suntour: couldn’t tell, is it a Sugino AT chainset?

It should be Sugino PX.........

 

[Gtpulse]

Here's a large one, one day to run and sitting at a bidless £45 right now
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raleigh-Maverick-retro-mountain-bike/275166459734

That one’s a slightly different beast, pressed dropouts and lower spec. There were several in the range, I think only the top two had the cast dropouts which marks them out from the others. They had better spec as well mostly Suntour like the one in the OP and bear trap pedals.

 

[doctor-bond]

There are Mavericks and Mavericks …. Check out the frame details on Rayfenwickis score: oversize seatstay caps are the giveaway of it being built in SBDU batcave. A gentle clean and refettle, decent saddle and you’ve got the equivalent of an old Alvis to tool around on.

 

[legrandefromage]

Thats Raleighs attempt at a 'proper' mountain bike and one of the last gasps of the SBDU unit

Please dont do anything drastic as there are not many left in original condition.

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[Gtpulse]

The colour description on that advert reads like a 1980s stockbroker’s night out. Beaver and champagne lol!

 

[legrandefromage]

Here's mine from many moons ago in far far worse condition

SB 8387

 

[Gtpulse]

Here's mine from many moons ago in far far worse condition

SB 8387

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Lovely frame, still the sort of condition I’d leave as it is after a clean and polish. I’m a sucker for an original survivor level of patina.