Re: [CR]Frame identification marks

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From: <RaleighPro531@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:01:42 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]Frame identification marks
To: questor@cinci.rr.com
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 2/4/2002 11:24:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, questor@cinci.rr.com writes:


> It is fair to say that my Marinoni is a "hybrid" which may explain the "R"
> (for Raleigh?) on the BB. The frame was a custom construction in 1983 for
> Huffy/Raleigh USA by Marinoni using the Raleigh custom lugs, BB, and Campy
> dropouts, but using Columbus tubing, not Reynolds 531.
>
> The strange thing was that Marianne Berglund raced the frame during the 1984
> season marked as a "Raleigh 531" frame where she won the World Championship.
> Huffy tried to advertise the Championship wins as "531 wins again!".
> Actually, the frame was constructed with Columbus SL tubing according to
> Marinoni records.
>

Was this in addition to, or instead of, frames being sent from England? I thought I had seen a RaleighUSA frame that was made in England. Maybe I'm confusing this Raleigh Team frames from a couple years earlier.

Pete Geurds
Douglassville, PA