At 3:49 PM -0400 9/12/05, kohl57@starpower.net wrote:
>A totally original (right down to the pump, Coloral water bottle and
>handlebar wrap) and very clean 1962 Raleigh Gran Sport on eBay:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/e46fv
>
>These are among those enormously appealing (well to me anyway) early
>'sixties Raleigh "lightweights" that had it all: lovely colours, graphics,
>
>nice components... everything but the "light weight". Sadly all we
>re 2030
>frames. But dandy looking eye candy.
That's the bike I lusted after but couldn't afford as a teenager...
Sheldon "Drooling" Brown
Newtonville, Massachusetts
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