Norm Lafleur wrote that riding a classic bike in a bunch of modern ones
often goes unnoticed, quoting a C-Record equipped bike as proof. I have
ridden my full chrome 1948 Thanet Silverlight in a century, and absolutely nobody noticed, or if they did, asked about it. I have even
watched a friend ride a half century on a high wheeler, and many of the
other riders just zoomed by displaying neither interest nor amusement.
Wing Nuts: I was repeatedly given boxes full of the things (mostly uninteresting sixties and seventies ones for sports bikes) by cycle dealers with the comment they had been illegal in Germany for road use
since they constituted a risk when crashing. Has anyone ever heard about this one?
Team Raleigh: I found one today for a moderate sum of money, not too bad a condition, equipped with a weird mix of Campag Tipo, Suntour Cyclone, Galli, Sugino Mighty, Gipiemme, and other second tier stuff. Two questions: Is anyone able to date it from its frame number WP 7000
960? And what does the WP mean? As I´m not selling it, the next question is not trolling: Is it worth keeping in a collection, throwing
some NR bits on perhaps, or is it just an old hack to use up? I must shamefacedly admit that I rarely read posts about Raleighs as I just can´t read all of CR, but this frame looks nice in its red, black and
yellow colours. Archives give hundreds of answers, so I don´t know where to start. Sorry.
Thanks, Toni Theilmeier, Belm, Germany.