Re: [CR] When did Raleigh International geometry change?

(Example: Production Builders:LeJeune)

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:27:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: "r cielec" <teaat4p@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] When did Raleigh International geometry change?
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <04DBD39C-E7D0-11D8-B945-0050E4FA0552@cox.net>


Shannon: May I request a favour, please? I ,too, have International interests yet very little knowledge. May I ask that you forward any off list replies you recv. on this subject? Thanks. Regards, Richard Cielec Chicago, Illinois On List

Shannon Menkveld <shannon.menkveld@cox.net> wrote: One of the bikes on my "will own" list is the International. I've got a thing for 1970's Raleighs, mostly due to my dad working in a Raleigh shop in San Francisco back then. He was a "Raleigh man" through and through. And the design of the International seems unique among production lightweights of that time, a more relaxed, all-rounder type frame with racing parts.

I have read, and the archives confirm, that the later internationals were steeper and shorter. When did this change take place? Or, if one were looking for a true, "long-n-low" International with chromed Nervex Pro lugs, what would be the last year that they were made that way?

Thanks, Shannon Menkveld San Diego, CA

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