In response to Jerry Moos's comments on the various versions of the Competition:
There was an earlier version of the Competition, 1969, chrome Nervex lugs a la International, oval headbadge, black or forest green. I've seen, touched, and photographed both so I know they were real. Both were too large/pricey for me or I would still be fondling at least one of them in the privacy of my own little world. Of course, now I can't find the pics on my puter, or the component list from the green one, so maybe they really were just part of some recent delusion. Worse, I may have broken the rule and actually deleted something useful from my puter. I must have been totally deranged!
Larry "Honest, I can come up with better delusions than THIS" Osborn Morgantown WV
At 08:13 PM 1/7/04 -0600, you wrote:
>That is an early Competition, maybe even the original Raleigh Competition.
>That would be 60's or very early 70's. The crank is a Zeus Competition,
>which is perhaps where the bike's model name came from. I'm aware of at
>least three generations of Raleigh Competition, of which this was the
>earliest. It was followed by what is probably the most familiar Raliegh
>Competition, usually a black frame with TA 3-arm Professional crank, Huret
>Jubilee derailleurs, and Normandy Competition hubs. That was followed by
>the Competition GS with Campy Nuovo Grand Sport gruppo, including 3-arm
>Grand Sport cranks, although some years they may have had 5-arm GS cranks.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jerry Moos
>Houston, TX
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: <Bikerdaver@aol.com>
>To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:32 PM
>Subject: [CR]Interesting Raleigh on Ebay
>
>
>> Here is an interesting ZEUS equipped Raleigh that I am not familiar with
>and
>> the posting doesn't tell a whole lot about the bike. Can anybody tell me
>the
>> vintage year and where this sets in the hierarchy of Ralieghs at the time.
>> Cheers,
>> dave anderson
>> cut bank mt
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>http://ebay.com/<blah>