I'm still on my 1974 Raleigh Team Pro kick and was spending more time examining the brochure page which Mark had posted. Besides the unusual black chainrings and headset, notice the following oddities also:
The first little picture on the top shows the rear dropout having a fender eyelet which I would like to assume a Team bike never had, but also note that the bike pictured does not appear to have the eyelet - two different bikes used for the pictures?
The third little picture shows the Campagnolo front derailleur with silver arms and black cage while the one on the bike that is pictured appears to be a standard NR (or is that just a Record?) front mechanism in all silver.
Just some observations.
Did anyone on this list ever own (or currently own) a Team Pro with the fastback stays? If so, Please contact me offlist.
Also, does anyone on the list own a 1973/74 Pro or Team Pro with the serial number begining with an "A". Again, please contact me off list if you have such a girl.
Thanks,
Eric Elman Somers, CT
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> '74 Raleigh, http://bulgier.net/
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> '75 Raleigh, http://bulgier.net/
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> 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