Raleigh Super Course - was [CR] Wilier Triestina

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From: "Pete Geurds" <raleighpro@dejazzd.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Raleigh Super Course - was [CR] Wilier Triestina
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:01:53 -0400
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From: <gpvb1@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [CR] Wilier Triestina


> To which Pete added:
> That's nice!
> I wonder if that's the look Raleigh was trying for with the
> Internationals?
>
> http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/Catalogs/Retro-Raleighs/74-Catalog.pdf
>
> I have a Super Course in that same copper color as the International.
> Though it doesn't seem to be in the literature as being available in
> copper.
>
> Pete Geurds
> Douglassville, Pa
>
> Pete:
> The Super Course was available in copper (and red) in about 1979-1980. Is
> yours perhaps one of those, or earlier? Some of them had forged dropouts
> IIRC. Very nice bikes for the money at the time. If anyone has a 23.5" one
> in this configuration in mint condition or better, please consider selling
> it to me. I'd love to have one for sentimental reasons.
> Earlier Super Courses were usually coffee in color, among other color
> choices (my first "good" bike was a 1973 coffee Super Course, bought for
> $165 in lawn-mowing money. Took me quite a while to save up that much
> dough in 1973...).
> Greg Parker
> Ann Arbor, Michigan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I believe my Super Course is a '77 model. That's based on date on frame and components and it matches the description of this '77 on RetroRaleighs. http://retroraleighs.com/super-course.html I vaguely remember the shop had an International in the same color, but price scared me off. That catalog page says available in red or gold, no mention of copper. So maybe it was a special run, catalog's wrong, or they gave me a International frame by mistake? ; ) Of course in view of it possibly being something special I am at present cheerfully in the middle of painting it red! (waiting for a non-humid day - good luck in SE Pa)

Pete Geurds
Douglassville, Pa