I agree with Garrison,
The frame was probably one of Raleigh-Huffy's attempts in 1983-85 to produce
mass-markets bikes in Taiwan due to the frame serial number. Your frame
likely has Tange tubing (please correct me if I am wrong). The Raleigh Team
Racing USA frames were made of 531 tubing in England. Enclosed is a URL
link that details Raleigh USA general info...
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/
Regards, Steve Neago
Cincinnati, OH
> Hi, my name is Matt and I'm new to the list. I live and work in Hawaii
> as a graphic designer.
>
> I own 3 bikes: an old lugged Raleigh road bike, a lugged road bike
> turned singlespeed that originally had a sticker on the headtube that
> said 'Motiv' (yet looks like no other motiv I've ever seen) and a
> Diamondback cyclocross bike (which I am nowhere near as fond of as the
> first two bikes). The Raleigh was the bike that first got me interested
> in old road bikes. Everything here seems to be carbon this, titanium
> that. Partly what attracted me to vintage road frames were their sense
> of character. Most new bikes seem pretty generic to me. Little attention
> to design details and more emphasis on what the frame is made of!
>
> Anyway, I'm wondering if any of you have information on when my Raleigh
> was made, and what it was called?
>
> The frame is chrome, stamped with "raleigh" in the dropouts both front
> and rear. The shifter cables route under the BB, through a plastic
> router. The components are a mix of Suntour, and the cranks say
> "raleigh" on them, but I'm not sure if the components orignally came
> with the bike.
>
> The serial no. is
>
> 3 K N 0 7 9 7
>
> and above it is stamped something that looks like the reserved symbol,
> the R with the circle around it. There's something else stamped on the
> BB but I can't see what it is with the plastic router thingie in the
> way.
>
> The lugs are fairly conservative.
>
> I did some research on the web and the closest model I could find to my
> bike was the Raleigh Team RacingUSA. The only difference is that it had
> Campy dropouts, but for the most part looked almost identical.
>
> I honestly don't know if this would be considered a 'vintage' bike. But
> if there's anyone who knows, I reckon they're probably on this list.
>
> Any information would be appreciated.
>
> Mahalo,
> Matt Yee
> Honolulu, HI