Re: [CR]RE; What pray is a Carlton Criterium?

Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:49:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]RE; What pray is a Carlton Criterium?
cc: lemansgtman@aol.com
cc: lemansgtman@aol.com

Hmmm, my orange 1980 carlton appears to be the same bike, and has a 531 Main Tubes DB decal, and forged Suntour dropouts. And my orange 1980 carlton criterium weights only 80 grams more (6.77 lbs) than a 1975 Raleigh Team 531-throughout frameset from Ilkeston, in the same size...

Here is a 1981 Carlton Criterium :

http://www.carltoncycles.me.uk/mybikes/81criterium.htm

So I think you are a little to dismiss all Carlton Criterium bikes as "gaspipes"...

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA