Re: [CR]1962 Raleigh Gran Sport on eBay

(Example: Framebuilders:Pino Morroni)

Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:53:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Ted E. Baer" <wickedsky@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]1962 Raleigh Gran Sport on eBay
To: Sheldon Brown <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>, kohl57@starpower.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <p062309a5bf4b8d911c12@[10.0.1.16]>


Definitely one of the nicer bikes I have seen to hit eBay in quite a while. I wonder if the hubs are Normandy or the early 60's French-made Campagnolo?
>From the looks of it, it appears to have it's original tires too!

Ted E. Baer
Palo Alto, CA


--- Sheldon Brown wrote:


> At 3:49 PM -0400 9/12/05, kohl57@starpower.net
> wrote:
> >A totally original (right down to the pump, Coloral
> water bottle and
> >handlebar wrap) and very clean 1962 Raleigh Gran
> Sport on eBay:
> >
> >http://tinyurl.com/e46fv
> >
> >These are among those enormously appealing (well to
> me anyway) early
> >'sixties Raleigh "lightweights" that had it all:
> lovely colours, graphics,
> >
> >nice components... everything but the "light
> weight". Sadly all we
> >re 2030
> >frames. But dandy looking eye candy.
>
> That's the bike I lusted after but couldn't afford
> as a teenager...
>
> Sheldon "Drooling" Brown
> Newtonville, Massachusetts
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