I have a Competition from 1968 with those chrome nervex lugs. It's a nice riding bicycle.
Jay Sexton Sebastopol, Ca
Message: 10 Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 18:39:02 -0500 From: "Charles T. Young" <youngc@ptd.net> Subject: Re: [CR] Unusual Raleigh Comp on CL To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Message-ID: <003801ca8ccd$ee9cfad0$0a00a8c0@corp.rfweston.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original
It appears to be a 1969 Competition (with a number of component substitutions):
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/
Charlie Young
Honey Brook, Pennsylvania USA
Damien noted:
> > Chrome nervex-style lugs on a Competition? The first aooearance of the
> > Comp that I can find is the Mark II the 1973 catalogue. Perhaps the Comp
> > was offered in England earlier, and with chrome lugs? (since "Mark II"
> > would logically indicate a previous model existed .)
> >
> > http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/
> >
> > Damien Roohr
> > Canton, CT
> > 1978 Comp GS under restoration!