[CR]On the Raleigh International, not the binder bolt...

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Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 09:27:41 -0400
From: "HM & SS Sachs" <sachs@erols.com>
To: joebz@optonline.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]On the Raleigh International, not the binder bolt...

Joe Bender-Zanoni asked how I managed to remember the details of the seat binder bolt... It relates to passion, but the story is more peculiar. It was about 1970, and I was a starving grad student at Brown U, living with my bride in a classic New England tenement - long row of rooms, 2 BR and bath off to the side. Her Columbus-tubed Atala was a much better bike than I had, and we'd squeezed enough shekels that I could buy any bike I wanted, up to the $165 (?) for a PX-10. At that point, I came across an ad for this 1 yr old Raleigh International. Turned out to belong to a student who changed (expensive) hobbies annually. After I offered enough praise for his good taste, he sold me the International. I was in 7th heaven. Adorned the bike with a little "Kahlua" sticker because the color was so close. But, that was after getting it back to the house and staring. And then I rode it around the apartment. Really. Susan still laughs. Imagine a grown man, grinning from ear to ear, trying to ride a bike in the apartment. Stark naked.

harvey sachs. McLean VA


>> Kenneth Wallace asks:
>>
>>
>> Just bought a 1971 Raleigh International and the original seat binder
>> bolt is missing. Can someone remind me (or send a pic) of how they
>> looked. Thanks.
>> ------------------
>> My memory is that mine (a 70 or 71 in gorgeous metallic brown) had a
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> knurled-headed round bolt head, with key to the centerpull cable hanger and the frame. At the Right side, the nut was castled or whatever you call it, with a slightly conical section above the hex. Pressed into place on that was a silver (or was it white?) piece with a gothic-looking R in red.
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>> But that is just my memory.
>>
>> harvey sachs
>> just back from three straight rainy days at a Bike weekend in eastern

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MD...


> mcLean va