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Hi Fredy, I work at Avon Valley Cyclery and can confirm Kinesis had nothing to do with these frames. Firstly I must apologise for the lousy info some one gave you; in defence of the store we had some 'transient' staff last year who didn't do us many favours but sometimes needs must.
The RaceLite bikes were commissioned by Richard Grigsby and Gary Cooper (the chaps behind Cyclescheme) and were produced by LA Cycles (now defunct) Lee Cooper (no relation of Gary afaik) was the L in LA and his partner was... Andy ??? I cant remember his last name. Lee continued making frames as Lee Cooper Cycles http://leecoopercycles.webs.com/
at the same time the shop was doing Caribou (RTB) drop bar 26" wheeled go anywhere bikes. Most of the two brands frames were built in Columbus or Dedacciai tubing (the teardrop was a bit of a favourite shape for Dedacciai). It looks like Lee has stopped taking orders for frames so there is a bit of history in your hands. I used to own a RaceLite but unfortunately it was stolen (Sad face). The bikes all had silly names that I can't remember now (lost in the filing system of my mind) with the exception of the cross bike which was called "The Very Cross".So in short... nice frame, well built and a keeper if you ask me ;)
That's how I remember it but time makes things fuzzy so if that turns up dead ends or more questions drop me a line and I'll dig some more.
Luke.
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So, guys from AVC lead me to believe these were made by Kinesis for them. After contacting Kinesis they made clear they never produced steel frames (they however still produce alu RaceliGHt and not Racelite frames). Dom from Kinesis UK says the Racelite frames were sold by Graham Weigh Cycles. After looking at couple of GW frames on forum I established all of them have similiar main triangle (very similiar if not the same to mine) and are branded with Reynold 853. Currently waitting for a response from GW to see if they had anything to do with these frames. This would certainly be a pleasent surprise, especially if it is a Donohue build. Attaching the pic again in the case someone knows something more on this topic. The project is now quite finished, just waitting for nice weather to take couple of nice shots!