[CR]Which FWs came on Raleighs

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From: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 20:32:10 EDT
To: gillies@cs.ubc.ca, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
cc: FujiFish1@aol.com
Subject: [CR]Which FWs came on Raleighs

In a message dated 8/6/2004 1:25:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gillies@cs.ubc.ca writes:

<< I can tell you that the stock 1974 raleigh international came with simplex 14-24, and the 1973 competition came with a 5-speed atom 14-24 freewheel. So did the raleigh gran prix in that era. >>

Hey Don: I was selling those bikes in 1973-4 and I can tell you that you never knew what to expect out of the box in terms of tires, freewheels and chains. And occasionally even different bars, stems and rims would show up. It was the bike boom days and they were cranking them out at a crazy rate. Quality control could be... shall we say "challenging" too!

Dale Brown
Greensboro, North Carolina