Well thanks for the information, that doesn't sounds good!
I think i gonna have a critical look at the bike and then decide
if it's interesting or not! I saw a continental bicycle at
classicrendezvous ( http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
thanks for the help everyone
greets
Arno Volkers
Van 't Hoffstraat 9
4834 XD Breda
The Netherlands
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:41:11 -0400
> From: lemansgtman@aol.com
> Subject: [CR]Re: Carlton Continental question (ian Briggs)
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I used to unpack / assemble / sell these whilst working for Denton's Cycl
es in Oxford - so definitely mid-1970s era.
>
> Right at the low end of the Carlton / Raleigh mass-product range of the t
ime and at?Raleigh's lowest ebb (thus far). Gas-pipe tubing, crude lugwor
k / brazing?and apparently whatever bits they could?job-in or find in the p
arts-bins (mostly GB and Huret). Poor paintwork?and decals. I remember in p
articular these monkeys came supplied with horrid Wrights concrete saddles
too.
>
> Sorry if this seems blunt / rude / abrupt or simply offends?but I have a
poor opinion of most of the Nottingham / Worksop product then. We also sold
Dawes and Falcon and their stuff (even the cheapo) was far superior.
>
> You did ask.
>
> Sorry,
>
> Ian "skinned his knuckles fettling?more Carltons that he likes to remembe
r" Briggs
> LUTON, Bedfordshire, UK.