The GB bars are 25.4 mm, of course, because that happens to be 1", a nice even English dimension, none of this metric foolishness. However, I also seem to recall that these came with TTT stems on the Raliegh Pro. I believe the TTT stems had a 26.0 mm bar clamp as compared to 26.4 for Cinelli, so at least the TTT was closer to fitting the GB bars, but it does seem one would have really had to tighten the bar clamp bolt to keep the bars from slipping. Unless TTT made a 25.4 stem special for Raleigh, or Raleigh used a shim, but I've never heard that either was the case. Anyone on the list who sold Raleigh Pros know the answer?
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Houston, TX
> Don,
>
> Be sure you shim those bars, or get a GB stem to mount them in. The
center
> diameter is only 25.4mm and can break a TTT or Cinelli stem that is trying
> to clamp down on them.
>
> Steve Barner So why did Raleigh put thse bars into 3TTT stems on Pros?"
> Bolton, Vermont
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 11:05:31 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
> > To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Subject: [CR]GB map-of-britain bars ...
>
> > i am restoring some raleigh internationals, and although they are
> post-1974, it
> > would be nice to have one of these bar sets for the 3rd one. these bars
> were
> > stock on my 1972 raleigh grand prix, but then raleigh started making
> boring ones
> > by 1974, apparently.
> >
> > - don