With that serial number, and that head badge, it would have to be a 1980.
Cheers,
John Barry
Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
> From: edvintage63@aol.com <edvintage63@aol.com>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Unusual (later) Raleigh RRA Record Ace (Ed Granger)
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 9:26 AM
\r?\n> I've always understood that the only truly worthy
\r?\n> RRA's of the 70's and 80's were the
\r?\n> French-equipped, white-and-yellow jobs from circa 1974. Yet
\r?\n> this is the second one of these I've seen (first was
\r?\n> frame only):
\r?\n>
\r?\n> http://tinyurl.com/
\r?\n>
\r?\n> What do the Raleigh folks make of this? The first one I saw
\r?\n> on ebay I bid on, but I don't recall it generating any
\r?\n> list discussion (or if it did I haven't been able to
\r?\n> locate it in the archives).
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Ed Granger
\r?\n> Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA