I'm not sure what kind of pedals are on the bike either. The only marking I see is "501" on the body not the cage. They look lyotard. They are uncomfortable though.
The bike was bought at Turin. They're now in evanston and I might go up there and see if anyone remembers anything about these bikes. I went to another local shop, Robert's on north clark stree in rogers park but no luck. The current owners bought the shop in the late 70's and the only version of the RRA they dealt with was the late 70's gas pipe model. The original owner's name of my bike was Rob Thomas.
marc garcia
chicago IL
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\r?\n>
\r?\n> At 09:50 PM 5/31/2005, you wrote:
\r?\n> >thank you Larry for the welcome to the subcult of
\r?\n> RRA.
\r?\n> >It is a great bike and I'm already smitten with it.
\r?\n> >I've ridden it almost everyday since I bought it
\r?\n> and I
\r?\n> >like it more and more. I polished everything up and
\r?\n> >boy do those maillard 700 hubs look pretty. Thanks
\r?\n> for
\r?\n> >the links, the only difference I see in my bike
\r?\n> from
\r?\n> >others besides the carlton decal is the headset
\r?\n> which
\r?\n> >does not appear to be a stronglight but rather a
\r?\n> >brampton (SP?).
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Possibly erroneous memory on my part when I wrote
\r?\n> some of that stuff for
\r?\n> R-R. The bike I have now has a Brampton headset, as
\r?\n> do most of the ones
\r?\n> I've seen in recent years. The bike in my mind may
\r?\n> have been just another
\r?\n> Raleigh fluke with a Stronglight. I wouldn't have
\r?\n> noticed back then.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I can't tell what pedals are on yours from your
\r?\n> photos. They don't appear
\r?\n> to be Atom 700s unless the label has fallen off the
\r?\n> dust caps. Certainly
\r?\n> not a critical item. The Atoms were pretty horrible
\r?\n> pedals unless you had
\r?\n> very tiny feet, but those metallic red dust caps
\r?\n> looked good.
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> >When I first bought it I thought the
\r?\n> >3ttt stem with decals still in tact would look
\r?\n> mighty
\r?\n> >nice on my raleigh pro and that the brake levers
\r?\n> with
\r?\n> >the black carlton hoods are exactly what I need for
\r?\n> my
\r?\n> >competition. But once I rode it I knew nothing was
\r?\n> >being switched out. In terms of price, the original
\r?\n> >receipt says the owner paid 330.00 for the bike,
\r?\n> which
\r?\n> >I guess was a pretty good deal!
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> From the receipt, what bike shop was it purchased
\r?\n> from?
\r?\n> Original owner's name?
\r?\n> Just nosy. I did live in the area back then, but
\r?\n> most of the people I knew
\r?\n> that had RRAs crashed and trashed them trying to
\r?\n> race. A sad fate for the
\r?\n> bikes.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Found my price lists last night, and the official
\r?\n> "suggested" list prices
\r?\n> for April 26, 1973:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Competition MK III $245.
\r?\n> RRA $325
\r?\n> Int $350
\r?\n> Pro $460
\r?\n> All prices subject to change without notice.
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> >I'm still searching for some simplex super lj
\r?\n> >derailleurs for it which is all I need to make this
\r?\n> >correct (anybody have any laying around?). I do
\r?\n> have
\r?\n> >some other simplex derailleurs that kind of look
\r?\n> the
\r?\n> >part that I'm going to use for now instead of the
\r?\n> >suntours on it now.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Close enough for now.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Just wait until you discover the steerer tube
\r?\n> threads are stripped, or the
\r?\n> bottom bracket threads don't line up from side to
\r?\n> side, or the brake bolt
\r?\n> holes were drilled crooked, or the fork blades are
\r?\n> out of alignment, or
\r?\n> .......
\r?\n> Glad to hear you're having fun with it, and giving
\r?\n> it a good home.
\r?\n> Osborn