Michael Schmid wrote:
> I am now puzzled too... I dated the bike according to Sheldon Browns
> retro-raleigh site and that gave the manufacturing date 75. There is
> another stamp in the top-tube seatbinder lug just reading 73.
I'm not a Raleigh expert, but the '73' stamped in the seat lug is
probably just the lug angle.
> But there is also the 20-30 tubing sticker. The frame is rather
> large, 61 or 62 cm. Could it be they used the heavier tubing in the
> big sizes?
The '2030' is an ANSI designation for the steel composition. But it is entirely likely that heavier gauge tubing was used in larger frames.
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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA