Nick,
Many Raleighs were sold with a "Tour de France" decal on them commemorating the Ti-Raleigh team's success in the late 1970's/early 1980's. I have seen many lesser model Raleighs described as "Tour de France" machines as a result. Nearly all the sellers were just mistaken , not dishonest. I believe the Team Raleigh Record was mostly sold in Europe and was based, more or less, on the frame of the Raleigh Competition, thus the Huret drop-outs. It is still a nice frame. Unfortunately, the Team Record sold in the States was a ghastly, gas-pipe creation outfitted with the cheapest components then available. I'm sure Peter, Greg Parker or Hillary could confirm or refute this as well as providing even more information.
George Allen Fayette County (only 10 miles from Versailles and Paris) Kentucky USA
Hugh Thornton wrote:
>The Raleigh Team Record was also available as a frame only and is actually
>quite good - only a notch below the Team Replica frames out of Worksop and
>better than the regular Raleigh Record (at least for the years for which\ufffd
>\ufffdI found descriptions of the Record which seems to be a mediocre machine)
>. If the frame is sound and straight, I would say this was a good buy
>. The front fork looks original so it is a bit strange, but perhaps t
>ypical of Raleigh's build anything and ship it operation, that it has Huret
> dropouts. The only Team Record frames I have seen at close quarters
>had Campagnolo dropouts front and rear: they had the same finish with half
>chrome forks and no chrome on the frame.
>
>Hugh Thornton
>Cheshire, England
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>--- On Wed, 17/12/08, nicbordeaux <nicbordeaux@yahoo.fr> wrote:
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>From: nicbordeaux <nicbordeaux@yahoo.fr>
>Subject: [CR]A sad story indeed: ebay bikes advertised with "pedigree"
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Date: Wednesday, 17 December, 2008, 10:45 PM
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>There was this Raleigh bike on ebay France advertised as a TDF machine. Hap
>pens I know nothing about Raleighs, so I went for it. And eventually got it
>. A nice bike indeed, but not a team bike. The stories people tell, you won
>der whether they believe themselves, or whether they think that being behin
>d a computer screen gives them total impunity/immunity from being called up
>on in the case of a bad fraud. In this case it's OK, the bike is worth what
> I paid for it, and I need a beater for the winter anyway. Full pics and ac
>count at http://tiny.cc/
>And I guess that link is broken so I'll give it again as a ps.
>Best
>Nick March, Agen 47000, Lot et Garonne, France
>ps: http://tiny.cc/
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