[CR]introduction and help with ID Raleigh Clubman

Greetings:

First, I'm new to the list and I'll introduce myself: my name is James Black, I'm an architecture student at UCLA, and ride bikes. I've been reading the iBOB list for some years now. My oldest bike is a 1982 Nishiki International, fully tricked out with front dynohub and Sachs 5-speed internal gear hub. I also have a fixed gear Swift Folder and a Karate Monkey mountain bike.

Now, the fun part: one of my roommates needed a bike, and we went and found one at an antique/flea market type store here in LA. Picked up cheap, I didn't really know what it was, but now I'm thinking it's a Raleigh Clubman, seeming quite similar to the 1950-1951 Clubman models which I saw described on this page:

http://retroraleighs.com/clubman-kohler.html

Most of the parts are circa 1980 Japanese, with 27" Mavic Module E rims, and I'm entirely prepared to believe that none of the parts are original, even though the unhealthy non-drive crank is labelled Raleigh and is probably of Japanese forging. The serial number has the format BA236xx (where "xx" equals two integers). Another page ( http://oldroads.com/ra_sn.asp )suggests that this serial number, if indeed a Raleigh number, would be from the 1960s, although everything else I see on the bike seems consistent with the 1950-51 Clubman.

I've put a bunch of pictures on the web here:

http://james.architectureburger.com/cycle/club.html

If anyone can help with identifying this bike, I'd appreciate it. I'm already jealous that it's my roommate's and not mine, but at least I'll get to look at it (and wrench on it, fortunately or unfortunately).

Thanks,

James Black
Los Angeles, CA