Re: [CR]1958 RRA Moderne Pix on Wooljersey site

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From: "neil foddering" <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
To: mark@bikesmithdesign.com, kohl57@starpower.net, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]1958 RRA Moderne Pix on Wooljersey site
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:28:57 +0000


If you look at the pictures of the 1948 RRA on:

http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/rra1948.html

You'll see the style of lamp bracket which locates on the "pip" on the fork leg. These turn up on eBay from time to time, but you need to be certain that the bracket is the correct one for your shape of fork leg - round, D-shape, etc.

I have an extremely rare pre-war Raleigh bracket for the left hand fork leg, rare because it's in aluminium alloy. It was not uncommon for lamps to be fitted on the left fork leg in pre-war days, presumably to illuminate the kerb.

Neil Foddering Weymouth, Dorset, England


>From: Mark Stonich <mark@bikesmithdesign.com>
>To: "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net>,<Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: Re: [CR]1958 RRA Moderne Pix on Wooljersey site
>Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:39:42 -0600
>
>At 10:42 AM 2/4/2007, P.C. Kohler wrote:
>>Another project finished:
>>1958 Raleigh RRA Moderne purchased on eBay UK last November and back on
>>the road as of last week.
>>Full details and photos posted in my Wool Jersey album:
>>http://www.tiny.cc/Y3KrB
>>Peter Kohler
>
>PC,
>Beautiful bike, hope I can get mine to look half as nice.
>
>My "white" headtube and transfers are quite yellowed. Did you have this
>problem? If so how did you get your whites so bright?
>
> I noticed that yours has a lamp bracket mount on the outside of the right
>fork leg while mine just has a small (4mm diameter 5mm long) peg on the
>inside of the leg, approx. the same distance up the leg.
>
>Does anyone know of a lamp bracket type that would utilize such a peg? I
>assume it would clamp on the leg and the peg would keep it from moving.
>
>BTW Is it possible your is a '57 and not a '58? This would explain the
>white panel on the seat tube and different transfers. I've never found a
>Raleigh serial number resource that lists numbers that look anything like
>your 3766AD or my 7062RA. However, these numbers don't look like they
>would be from the same year on a machine made in small numbers. Mine has
>the all black seat tube and the transfers as shown in
>http://retroraleighs.com/catalogs/1958/pages/8e.htm
>
>
>Mark Stonich
> Minneapolis Minnesota
> http://bikesmithdesign.com
> http://mnhpva.org