Re: [CR]Help dating Raleigh Record Ace Moderne?

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing:Falck)

Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:43:17 +0100 (BST)
From: "Michael Butler" <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [CR]Help dating Raleigh Record Ace Moderne?
To: Mark Stonich <mark@bikesmithdesign.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20050911134752.02f5bb00@pop.earthlink.net>
cc: CR Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Mark,
I think that model dates from 1957.
Best wishes Mick B Huntingdon UK.


--- Mark Stonich wrote:


> A friend has asked me to try to sell an old Raleigh
> Record Ace. But
> before I start, I should at least figure out how old
> it is.
>
> The serial number, RA7062, doesn't fit into the
> on-line serial #
> lists I've found.
> 531 stays and butted main tubes.
> Oil ports on HT & BB.
> Single Simplex or Huret shifter braze on.
> Chrome stay and fork tips.
> Black with cream (or maybe originally white) HT
> Airlite front hub (No rear wheel or derailleur)
> Braze on for Sturmey pulley on seat lug.
> Has a 1961 Santa Monica CA licence sticker.
>
> http://bikesmithdesign.com/rra/seat_tube.jpg
>
> Does anyone recognize these lugs?
> http://bikesmithdesign.com/rra/head_tube.jpg
>
> Too bad it's a 23". If an inch or 2 smaller, it
> would be the perfect
> bike for my NOS Cyclo-Benelux SA conversion and
> alloy shelled FW.
>
> Mark Stonich;
> Minneapolis Minnesota
> http://mnhpva.org
> http://bikesmithdesign.com
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Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.

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