Re: [CR]Raleigh USA Frame ?

(Example: Framebuilders:Richard Moon)

Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 13:53:44 -0800 (PST)
From: "Garrison Hilliard" <garrison@efn.org>
To: Tonythreerings@aol.com
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Raleigh USA Frame ?
In-Reply-To: <fb.1d61aefd.2932a85b@aol.com>


On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 Tonythreerings@aol.com wrote:
> Looking for information, fact or opinion about a frame I've had for a while:
> Headbadge and seat tube decal Raleigh Cycle Company of America, serial #
> 4L5R1938, 130 mm spacing; chrome head tube, fork, and rear triangle; top tube
> decal 'Competition' and 'Racing USA'; stickered 'Built With Raleigh 555
> Double Butted Main Tubes All Tubes Chrome Moly ...Designed and Engineered in
> the USA ...Manufactured in Japan for sale in the USA only'; Tange fork
> stickered Raleigh 555 SL; braze-ons for 2 1/2 bottle cages, with one screw
> under the down tube?

Sounds like one of the Huffy-owned years of Raleigh (1980-1992, I think) - they were fond of pasting tubing stickers (402, 502, 555, et al) on their frames then. I owned a Raleigh "Marathon" of that era that I rather liked...