> In a message dated 11/20/2004 8:10:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> kohl57@starpower.net writes:
>
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> This sort of a cruelty joke, but one way to tell if It's Raleigh Team pro
is
> whether it breaks! Then it's 753...
This is great, Dale... I've gone from a PX-10 with an Ava "death stem" to a "death frame".
The machine in question is a TI Team Raleigh serial SB 128 (early 1975) so if it's (and I am almost positive it is) 753 it has to be one of the earliest 753 frames I would think.
To add to the hoodoo quotient, this is supposedly a bike belonging to Gerrie Knetemann who very sadly died of a heart attack, riding a bike, on 2 November... aged 53. At the same time this machine was languishing in customs.
She should be on the road by next weekend. I weigh about 165 lbs but..... maybe I should specify who on the CR List gets my bikes when I find out it's really made of that dodgy 753!!
Peter Kohler
Washington, DC USA