Hi, my name is Matt and I'm new to the list, from Hawaii!
Does anyone know about what year this raleigh road bike came from? This was the bike that first got me interested in old road bikes. Everything here seems to be carbon this, titanium that.
The frame is chrome, stamped with "raleigh" in the dropouts both front and rear. The shifter cables route under the frame, through a plastic router. The components are a mix of Suntour, and the cranks say "raleigh" on them, but I'm not sure if the components came with the bike.
The serial no. is
3 K N 0 7 9 7
and above it is stamped something that looks like the reserved symbol, the R with the circle around it. There's something else stamped on the BB but I can't see what it is with the plastic router thingie in the way.
The lugs are fairly conservative.
I did some research on the web and the closest model I could find to my bike was the Raleigh Team RacingUSA. The only difference is that it had Campy dropouts, but for the most part looked almost identical.
Any information would be appreciated.
Mahalo,
Matt