Sorted Wanted: 1990s Raleigh Randonneur Reynolds 708 58cm

[alanf1968]

It's not a Raleigh, but I've just bought this rather nice Woodrup instead:

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Build thread to follow soon...

Thank you all for your contributions.

Thats nice, the beauty of coming away from manufacturers, is breaking with the need to keep it to original spec for collectors, my Randonneur has a Sora rear mech, new Spa 3x chainset, and Deore XT on DT Swiss rims, I tried STi shifters, but went back to bar ends, but upgraded to 9 speed, it has a nice balance imo of originality and improvement.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Thats nice, the beauty of coming away from manufacturers, is breaking with the need to keep it to original spec for collectors, my Randonneur has a Sora rear mech, new Spa 3x chainset, and Deore XT on DT Swiss rims, I tried STi shifters, but went back to bar ends, but upgraded to 9 speed, it has a nice balance imo of originality and improvement.

I painted my 708 Randonneur in black hammerite
It's in no way standard. XT rear mech, 105, front, 105 hubs Mavic rims, Stronglight chainset, Tange headset and bottom bracket, VO stem, Flandria bars, Spa leather saddle on an SR post, tektro cr720 cantilever brakes and levers. Tubus racks. It's a work horse and it's better than I will ever be
Sorry to op for derail

 

[fiveSixteenths]

Cheers, I also used VO mudguards on a previous build (now sold):

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I'll let you know re. the rack!

Well isn’t that lovely.