Subject:Re: [CR]Overprice Raleigh Record Ace on Ebay
Don wrote:> One thing that killed Raleigh/USA was the tendency to rip off their> own brands. One year a "raleigh team" is a campy super record bike,> and two years later it's right at the bottom of the line. sheesh.> The Record Ace on Ebay is a 1979 model near to the bottom of the line.> Only three rampar models were lower (rampar R1T, R-2, R-1027). See> the 1979 record ace in my 1979 catalogue here:> > http://www.ece.ubc.ca/
as a 'neophyte' vintage bicycle admirer, i would not have known the Raleigh was a lower end model without this list. it 'looked' good to me.
and being a neophyte admirer, i've also been a neophyte bidder only to 'discover' my information lacking and was fortunately outbid by a more neophyte bidder then me.
other then this list and a few other sites, i don't think there is any other way of learning about these things. i didn't begin riding(seriously) until after the CR timeline ends.
anyway, the neophyte thing struck a cord with me.
Eric Acuna, Santa Rosa, CA
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