I never knew that the earliest Team Pro's had the fastback setastays as on the "regular" Pro. Ignoring paint schemes for a moment, is there anyway to distinguish one of these early Team Pro framesets from the regular Pro framesets?
Eric Elman
Maybe my '74 frameset is a team pro?????
Somers, CT
> Check out the '74 Raleigh Team Pro,
> http://bulgier.net/
> "Super Nuovo Record" gruppo, with the rarest-of-the-rare
all-black-anodized
> chainrings. I bet those looked terrible after a few miles, with the black
> scratched off the teeth! Raleigh was a bit unclear on the concept I
think,
> as they pushed the seat down so low for the catalog shoot that the
seatpost
> flutes are almost completely inside the frame. Still, I wouldn't mind
> having one, scratched teeth, scratched seatpost and all ;) Note the
> "Victor" fastback seatstays - by '75 the Team Pro went to semi-wrap-around
> side-mounted seatstays, with the oversized cap not ground down flush with
> the stays - an interesting look, kinda French, but I like the Victor
better.
>
> Mark Bulgier
> Seattle, Wa
> USA