Re: [CR] Raleigh/Campy Question

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From: <Huthornton@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:53:41 EST
Subject: Re: [CR] Raleigh/Campy Question
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


A Raleigh with a 70 mm bottom bracket was probably a 1950's or earlier when Raleigh used their own distinctly odd design with non-standard width and non-standard threading. I'm sure that some were re-tapped with English (British?) threads, but with the width left the same. In fact I had that done to a fiftyish Lenton in about 1960 so that I could use more readily available parts (I wouldn't do that now of course). I don't know when Raleigh decided to adopt a more normal bottom bracket, but I sort of assume that it was not later than the TI takeover. I have a mid- to late-fifties Raleigh track bike with their odd bottom bracket.

Hugh Thornton

Tom Dalton wrote: "2) (Real Raleigh buffs chime in now...) Perhaps we've missed the point of your question. Are you really asking which NR double spindle fits the BB shell of your frame? I say this because a friend of mine had a custom Raleigh that had a 70 mm bottom bracket shell. At least that's what I remember. It was a hastle to compile the parts to make an English-threaded/Italian-width BB."