Re: [CR] Blue and white (?) Raleigh Comp on Boston CL

(Example: Component Manufacturers)

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:51:59 -0500
From: "Mike Sherman" <mike.sherman@earthlink.net>
To: CR list <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] Blue and white (?) Raleigh Comp on Boston CL


<billydavid13@comcast.net> wrote:
>Hi David. I once owned a new 1972 Comp. that was lilac w/ metallic blue head
>tube and seat panels. BUT the '72 catalog showed a white and blue Comp.

I have a lilac/blue one. The serial number begins with an "F". According to Sheldon Brown's Retro Raleigh page, it should be a 1971. I've never seen a 1971 catalog.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/retroraleighs/dating.html#1967

Bad photo of mine here:

http://home.earthlink.net/~mike.sherman/competition.html

Thanks, -Mike in Cleveland, OH, USA

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Mike Sherman <mike.sherman@earthlink.net>