Re: [CR] Raleigh International question

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:36:43 -0700
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, Tom Sanders <tom@orderandchaos.com>
In-Reply-To: <003e01ca4114$69331ff0$3b995fd0$@com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Raleigh International question


Tom, I'm pretty sure those are the famous Callton/Raleigh "Capella" lugs. According to a website dealing with Carlton, these were used on various Carlton and Raleigh models from 1959 to 1966. I know they were used on some early 70's Raleigh Competitions. Their use on International may have been only certain years in the 1959 to 1966 perios, but I don't know which years those would be.

By the way, does anyone know how these lugs got the name "Capella"? To me the name would suggest a simple lug style, ( like a capella singing), but I think "capella" is Italian for chapel. Did the tall central point on the Capella lugs perhaps suggest the spire of a chapel?

Regards,

Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA


--- On Tue, 9/29/09, Tom Sanders wrote:


> From: Tom Sanders <tom@orderandchaos.com>

\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Raleigh International question

\r?\n> To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 9:52 AM

\r?\n> A friend recently listed a Raleigh

\r?\n> International on E-Bay for yet a

\r?\n> different friend.    He called me on the phone

\r?\n> last night to ask me about it

\r?\n> and I wasn't too excited.  Looking at the pics this

\r?\n> morning, I see that it

\r?\n> appears to have fancier lugs than other International

\r?\n> models I have seen.

\r?\n> Were there varying levels of the International model or are

\r?\n> these more

\r?\n> ornate lugs significant of an earlier model that the other

\r?\n> International on

\r?\n> E-Bay ?  My friend's  is item # 200388989519 and

\r?\n> I see it is a bit nicer to

\r?\n> my eye than the item # 270460217906 that is also on E-Bay.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> You can tell that I am a bit out of my element discussing

\r?\n> Raleigh bikes and

\r?\n> your indulgence is requested.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Tom Sanders

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Lansing, MI USA