At 11:32 AM 9/4/04 -0400, Stephen Barner wrote:
>Reviewing the excellent scans of the '75 Raleigh catalog that has finally
>made it to Mark Bulgier's site, I was blasted to the past by the photo of
>the Super Tourer. I never knew the story behind that model, but we had one
>or two of them in the shop where I worked. I so wanted to buy one for my
>father, but we didn't get a 21" version in. I thought this bike was a total
>sleeper, and I think we had to put drop bars on one of them to sell it a
>year or two later. What a cool bike, though. Alloy upright bars were very
>unusual back then, at least in our neck of the woods.
My Raleigh Super Course MkII
http://bulgier.net/
According to a shop tag tied to the bars, it had been brought into Crosstown Cycles to have the bars installed in 1978. However, the owner never came back to pick it up. It had been hanging on the same hook for 20 years, through 3 changes of shop ownership.
I was only able to convince the shop owner to sell it, when he moved Crosstown to much smaller quarters.
BTW the brochure photo doesn't begin to do justice to the deep candy red paint
Mark Stonich;
BikeSmith Design & Fabrication LLC
http://bikesmithdesign.com