[CR]Raleigh "Grand Sports" : Frankenbike ??

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From: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:09:50 -0700 (PDT)
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Raleigh "Grand Sports" : Frankenbike ??

The name for the Raleigh "RRA" was maybe by gluing the "R" from "RALEIGH" onto the "RA" from "RALEIGH" to get the "RRA" label.

Is the raleigh "Grand Sports" derived by gluing the "Grand" from "Grand Prix" onto the "Sports" from the Raleigh "Sports" 3-speed ?? Would that be a frankenbike name ?? We could invent many new 1970's raleigh bike names in this way. For example :

Raleigh Super Sprite (petite bike w/big performance) Raleigh Professional Tourist (for the bums among us) Raleigh Space Record (released july 20 1969) Raleigh Super Mountie (sold only on canada day, Jul 1) Raleigh Super Grand Superbe (the "all-adjective" bike) Raleigh Super Prix (pronounced "super prick", sold only to jerkey customers)

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA