Re: [CR] Raleigh/Campy Question

(Example: Framebuilders:Cecil Behringer)

Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 07:42:16 -0800 (PST)
From: "Tom Dalton" <tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Raleigh/Campy Question
To: RALEIGH531@aol.com
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


No,the Team was definately 1.370"x24tpi,not "Raleigh." from what I remember though, it had a 70mm shell.

BTW, I have a funny feeling that we may have crossed paths at some point. Are you the guy who bought the orange Guerciotti at the Lehigh County Velodrome swap meet this October?


--- RALEIGH531@aol.com wrote:


> In a message dated 1/5/01 12:44:35 PM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com writes:
>
> > The bike I'm thinking of is a team Pro from the
> early
> > 1980's. I always wondered if my friend wasn't
> > confused, but I'll check into it. As for the
> > proprietary thread spec's, I think a lot of
> cheaper
> > raleighs retained this feature into the 1970's. I
> > remember my boss tapping 26tpi shells to 24tpi on
> some
> > semi-old Raleighs in the early 1980's. I think
> they
> > were Raleighs. He said that they had Whitworth
> thread
> > BB's.
>
> At my house:
>
> 74 Professional - English
> 77 Super Gran Prix - Raleigh (headset too)
> 77 SuperCourse - English
> 80 Competition GS - English
>
> Somewhere I read that all 531 frames would have
> English BB. At what year
> that becomes true, I'm not sure.
> I would not expect a Team bike to have Raleigh
> threaded BB or headset.
>
> Pete Geurds
> Douglassville, Pa
>
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