For Sale Very Rare Raleigh USA Technium MT600

If you live in a world where you're a chicken farmer: feeding them, breeding them, buying and selling them, and you mix in social circles involving chickens, you're going to see a lot of chickens. If you don't, you won't: and if you have little or no knowledge of the subject any that enter your realm will be rare. Serious chicken farmers know which are good, which are bad, and which are nothing special. Here there are many 'chicken farmers'... but the chicken farmers are patient when a non-chicken farming stranger with a chicken turns up. Until the stranger with the chicken keeps going on about how special his chicken is, and how it's this, and how it's that, and how it should be viewed with his inexperienced eye. Whilst this may be a validation thing for the stranger and important to get a return on his investment, what the stranger quickly forgets is that these are chicken farmers. They have vast experience and expertise with many many chickens, and if his chicken is unremarkable and the chicken farmers say it's unremarkable, then it probably is.
 
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If you live in a world where you're a chicken farmer: feeding them, breeding them, buying and selling them, and you mix in social circles involving chickens, you're going to see a lot of chickens. If you don't, you won't: and if you have little or no knowledge of the subject any that enter your realm will be rare. Serious chicken farmers know which are good, which are bad, and which are nothing special. Here there are many 'chicken farmers'... but the chicken farmers are patient when a non-chicken farming stranger with a chicken turns up. Until the stranger with the chicken keeps going on about how special his chicken is, and how it's this, and how it's that, and how it should be viewed with his inexperienced eye. Whilst this may be a validation thing for the stranger and important to get a return on his investment, what the stranger quickly forgets is that these are chicken farmers. They have vast experience and expertise with many many chickens, and if his chicken is unremarkable and the chicken farmers say it's unremarkable, then it probably is.
I want you to know I actually read all of this 🫡
 
Crusty and rusty, part it out, that rear mech looks in good condition

Joints look powdery , it wouldn't be safe to ride without a very close inspection
 
Thank you all for your comments and observations.
All very interesting.

Based on available catalogue and user review information, the Raleigh USA MT600 appears to have been in production for several years.
Bicycle Blue Book lists a 1993 Raleigh MT600, whilst user reviews can be found for a 2001 model. This suggests that the MT600 was part of Raleigh's line up during the 1990s and into the early 2000s.
Unfortunately, a precise "start date" for its manufacture isn't available in the provided sources.
The most concrete evidence of it's existence comes from the 1993 model year.

My TECHNIUM MT600 would appear to be the first production bike sent over from Raleigh USA to the Raleigh UK Head Office for display purposes in their board room. (see previous)
My bike I believe was made on the 10th January 1992. (from the serial number)
It would seem to be what the USA manufacturing plant put out quality wise for their initial production.
It is what it is.
How they made them in 1992.
It is all original, even the tyres!

£300 and collection from Nottingham NG9

"Museum of Mountain Bike Art & Technology" has interesting information on the Raleigh Timeline which covers this period and the technical spec.
http://mombat.org/Raleigh.htm

Kind Regards
Rob
 
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