The Raleigh Team Record was also available as a frame only and is actually
quite good - only a notch below the Team Replica frames out of Worksop and
better than the regular Raleigh Record (at least for the years for whichÂ
I found descriptions of the Record which seems to be a mediocre machine)
. If the frame is sound and straight, I would say this was a good buy
. The front fork looks original so it is a bit strange, but perhaps t
ypical of Raleigh's build anything and ship it operation, that it has Huret
dropouts. The only Team Record frames I have seen at close quarters
had Campagnolo dropouts front and rear: they had the same finish with half
chrome forks and no chrome on the frame.
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Hugh Thornton
Cheshire, England
From: nicbordeaux <nicbordeaux@yahoo.fr> Subject: [CR]A sad story indeed: ebay bikes advertised with "pedigree" To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Date: Wednesday, 17 December, 2008, 10:45 PM
There was this Raleigh bike on ebay France advertised as a TDF machine. Hap
pens I know nothing about Raleighs, so I went for it. And eventually got it
. A nice bike indeed, but not a team bike. The stories people tell, you won
der whether they believe themselves, or whether they think that being behin
d a computer screen gives them total impunity/immunity from being called up
on in the case of a bad fraud. In this case it's OK, the bike is worth what
I paid for it, and I need a beater for the winter anyway. Full pics and ac
count at http://tiny.cc/