At 10:01 PM -0600 8/30/06, John Dunn wrote:
>I recently picked up a frame off of craigslist. The guy selling it
>said it was an International and on the surface it looks like one.
>Serial number is G555, Nervex lugs, set up for centerpulls, chromed
>stays ( after stripping off a little paint ), campy dropouts and a
>raleigh head badge. It's not that I didn't believe the lime green
>airbrush logo but after looking at the retro raleigh site for paint
>ideas I noticed that all the Internationals shown have 2 cable stop
>braze ons at the front of the top tube (
>http://www.sheldonbrown.com/retroraleighs/international.html ) -
>this frame only has 1. It doesn't look like one of the braze ons was
>ground off/broken/removed. Did any Internationals have 1 stop at the
>front? Am I just insane?
>
>http://home.comcast.net/~john.dunn1/raleigh1.jpg
>http://home.comcast.net/~john.dunn1/raleigh2.jpg
>http://home.comcast.net/~john.dunn1/raleigh3.jpg
>http://home.comcast.net/~john.dunn1/raleigh4.jpg
>
My 71 International has two cable stop braze ons at the front of the top tub and one at the rear while my wife's 74 has two at the front and two at the rear. So, it seems that changes were made at differing production times. Yours looks like an International, scraping paint from a head tube lug to see if it's chromed would help to verify that it is.
Rob Mauhar
San Diego, Ca USA