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/
>
> 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
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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/
Pete Geurds
Douglassville, Pa