Chuck Kichline wrote:
>I picked a ~73 Raleigh Gran Prix out of the gutter. BUT the front
>fork is one of the Raleigh "plugged cross tube" forks that I've only
>seen on three speeds before. Paint matches, but I'm suspicious that
>it's telling me that the bike has had a mishap.
>Any chance that they used that fork on a GP?
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Having owned a number of GP's I have never seen one with that fork style, therefore I would bet it is a replacement. On the other hand, I have seen some strange divergences from the norm in regards to frame tube lengths and component mixes coming from Raleigh on production bikes, a wrong fork would not be too much of a stretch.
Hopefully on closer inspection the frame does not look like:
http://www.ody.ca/
Marcus Coles
London, Ontario, Canada