Original Message: ----------------- From: Hilary Stone hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:31:47 +0100 To: tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com, freitas1@pacbell.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]SB Raleigh
"Raleigh Special Product frames built in the UK have sequential numbers - that is a certainty. I sold a 753 frame SB3499 a while back - it had the
same seatstay caps, concealed rear brake cable and different lugs and BB shell. However the lugs, cable guiides etc on Bob Freitas' frame are all
identical to a Raleigh Service Des Course frame I sold which was from c198 5 - it had the frame number SB8221. On the balance of prbabilities I think the frame number starts 83**. It is very easy to misread a frame number wher e there's thick layer of paint..."
Indeed, Hilary it IS... Bob e-mailed me privately to say the serial number begins indeed with an 8 not a 3 due to paint fill-in. So once again, nothing is beyond the detective work of the CR List.
Did not the SB Unit close down c. 1986? I don't recall seeing any SB ser ial number past 8700 (ish).
Now if Peugeot and Cinelli serial numbers were as logical...
Peter Kohler Washington DC USA
--------------------------------------------------------------------
mail2web - Check your email from the web at
http://mail2web.com/