Re: [CR]Raleigh Team Pro CYCLOCROSS??

(Example: Racing:Jacques Boyer)

From: "swampmtn" <swampmtn@siscom.net>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Raleigh Team Pro CYCLOCROSS??
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:00:09 -0500


There were lots of these Raliegh team pro cyclocross framesets at the Raleigh/Huffy warehouse when it was in Dayton, Ohio about 1985. My team (DCC-Huffy) received a half-dozen, but we discovered the steering tubes had been cut-off too short, and would only accept a track headset sans spacers. The frames were nice and light, but broke at the downtube-bb join after a few rough races... we only used them one season, then the team traded for 531 framesets (while I went back to my trusty Alan Supercross).

Mike Melton still had a dozen of these for sale as recently as 1995... $120 each, no fork. I tried to buy one for display, but he sold the last of them to a gentleman who sold them from his trunk at cyclocross events on the west coast. I don't imagine many survived racing for very long.

Hope this answers a few questions.

Aldo Ross