Has anyone on this list ever seen, let alone owned, a Raleigh Team Pro with the fastback stays and fully sloping fork crown (regular Pro frame painted in team colors)? Anyone? The reason I ask is that I've had a lot of off list correspondence on the Team Pro's and there is a general consensus that the 1974 Team Pro pictured in the catalog was never offered for sale; that by the time Raleigh was selling them they were like the 1975 Team Pro with seat stays attached to the sides of the seat lug and a more conventional semi sloping fork crown, no chrome and black headtube (versus the yellow one as in the 1974 brochure). Can this CR list with almost 700 members, most of whom were in and around bike shops in the 1974 time period, conclude that the fastback Team Pro's were never a real offering from Raleigh?
Eric "almost ready to give up, but really hoping there were some fastback Team Pro's "Elman Somers, CT where on Sunday my daughter Leah and I did a 25 mile ride together, me on my 1974 Raleigh International and she on my wife's 1984 Team Fuji. We had a blast, she's starting to shift naturally (without a lot of thought or advice like on previous rides this year) and she reminded me of just how much energy an athletic 13 year old has! Fast pace, me whooped at the end, Leah just smiling with that "I whipped dad at his own game" kinda' happy smirk!
From: "Mark Bulgier" <mark@bulgier.net>
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> '74 Raleigh, http://bulgier.net/
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> '75 Raleigh, http://bulgier.net/
> 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.