Re: [CR] Help ID a Raleigh International with mysterious fork

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To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:47:46 -0800 (PST)
From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: [CR] Help ID a Raleigh International with mysterious fork


I've seen one or two forks with that type of vagner crown, rather than the one with 3 tangs and a triangular cutout.

Your top-tube braze-ons indicate the bike is early-74 or earlier. The brake bridge and campagnolo dropouts are almost certain signs of a Raleigh International (or sometimes Competition) model. The chromed lugs say Raleigh International, however. The wrapover stays say 1973 or earlier.

So nothing is really unusual about this frame. It's conceivable that the fork was replaced, perhaps with a supercourse fork. You might want to carefully sight along the underside of the top tube and look for wrinkles or ripples, as the result of a crash, that may have destroyed the original fork, and may have led to a repaint. If there are no signs of this sort, then I'd say the fork is probably original.

- Don Gillies San Diego, CA, USA Who owns way too many raleigh internationals 1970-74.