The Rampar style R showed up on most of the Raleighs built in the 70s, if memory serves me correctly. They went to a different graphics package starting in the early 70s ... I once had a DL-1 with the old block letters on the downtube and later Rampar styled on the chainguard, and I suspect it came that way. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cole <jcole@memphis.edu> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Date: Thursday, October 19, 2000 2:54 PM Subject: [Classicrendezvous] RE: Raleigh Postman Bike
>Monkeyman wrote:
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>>http://ebay.com/<blah>
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>>http://ebay.com/<blah>
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>> I'm mostly a lurker, but I needed to chime in on this one. No this
>bike
>> isn't really worth $300+ shipping, unless you REALLY want it. First,
>the
>> frame is not built in England. If you look at the seat tube and see
>that
>> angular gold "R" that is a Rampar built fame from Asia. An English
>built
>> one will have the Heron sticker instead. These bikes were built
>specificly
>> for the noststalga market and are of really questionable quality.
>[SNIP]...
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>This bike has the Nottingham headbadge which Asian built Rampars did not
>if I remember correctly. This looks like the real deal British bike
>from the early '70s. I've never seen an Asian built Raleigh Roadsters
>so I'm no expert or anything. Not sure of the significance of the
>Rampar styled "R" on the downtube, but the bike doesn't seem to say
>Rampar as such anywhere. Again, that's just my impression from limited
>exposure to Raleigh Roadsters.
>
>Jim Cole
>Memphis, TN