1935 Raleigh Path Racer for sale.

For sale.... 1935 Raleigh Sports. Bought from this site about 3 years ago. Specs are unchanged and are as follows:

Frame: 1935 21 inch Raleigh Sports with very slack geometry and lovely lugs
Forks: original Raleigh slack forks
Crank: Williams Raleigh heron crank (very rare nowadays)
Wheels: early Racelite rims with early flip-flop Normandy high flange hubs
Tyres: Schwalbe 26 x 1 1/4
Bars: period 1930s chrome Lauterwasser (again, rarer than a hen's teeth)
Freewheel: 16T Sturmey Archer (almost new)
Fixed cog: 17T period no-name
Chain: KMC Z510 HX (again, almost new)
Brakes/levers: 80s Weinmann (dismantled originals will be provided)
Saddle: 80s Condor (original leather saddle will be provided)
Headset: Raleigh Industries
Stem: Raleigh
BB: Raleigh
Grips: Britannia repro
Pedals: MKS Sylvan Track (nearly new)

This is a really special bike that needs a new custodian, but can be ridden as-is. The paint is not amazing but certainly serviceable. I've used this bike for sunny day rides and the Tweed Run: a rare bike indeed.

Priced at £395 which us what I paid. I'm in Hornsey if you'd like to take a look.

Pics?

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Pictures???

Obviously struggling with pics.

Dammit. Working on it.

Glad you've had a good run with it bro - I've since picked up a 37 edition of the same bike because I missed it so much. Don't miss this one guys!

might need to decrease the size of the pictures to upload them

Bars: period 1930s chrome Lauterwasser (again, rarer than a hen's teeth)

Trudat

A pic. Been busy.

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1935 and no head clip ?

Shaun

Cryptic? What are you saying Shaun. More detail please would be helpful for me and others perhaps. Thank you.

He is saying that a British bicycle manufactured in 1935 would have probably used a headclip headset. Instead of having races that push into the frame, they were part of the headtube lugs.

damm that's nice. My old RRA has a head clip but I am sure the races are pressed in I might be wrong but it looks like I have a lower race.

Ok. I'm no expert but I am qualified to say it is without a doubt one of the prettiest bikes I've ever set eyes on. A hoot to ride too! Happy to ride it into the city or the West End for a London viewing.

I have a 1937 Merlin with headclip headset. The races are in the lugs, but they're pressed into the lugs if that makes sense. (Well they're not pressed in at the moment since the frame's in bits, and actually that's a question I might have to ask later on in a different thread, because i can't work out how to make the races sit firmly back in position...)
Anyway all this implies that if the lovely frame above ^ isn't set up for a headclip headset it may be a later frame than 1930s? Or perhaps Raleigh stoped using headclips before other manufacturers...?

Mid-30s Raleigh Sports/Sports Tourist Models didn't all have clip headsets.

Lots of early raleighs don't have headships. I have a work colleague with a WW1 era raleigh path racer -no headclip He also has a 1920's raleigh roadster with no headclip. Even The RRA pre and post war models, that do have headclips, don't have built in races but rather just ordinary style separate races that you push in. They also have a lockable top race cover that locks the whole thing down before you add the headclip, so I imagine they would work just as well withoutility the actual clip part. But if it really matters to people, I have a pre war rra headclip and parts that would most likely work with this. Chrome is tatty but whomever buys this could buy it off me if they want, assuming I can find it in the parts bin...

That looks like a roadster headset which had fixed cups in the headtube, removable hardened races and the threaded top race for the adjustment. They didn't really appear until the late 30s so it might well be worth checking the frame number against the Raleigh databases. The frame angles certainly look slack enough for that era though. Could be a replacement fork, of course, it's only the threaded part at the top which is different.

Wow. Really started something! I bought it from tjkwood for its looks (I'm so shallow I wear shoes that hurt....but look good.....different thread that). Thanks for taking the trouble to share. It's a beaut.

I tried persuading my other half to mount it in the bedroom....on the wall. She objected on the basis that it would be difficult to dust. (she dusts?)

Another pic.....

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Keeping it. Bit miffed that folks introduced doubt about this bike's provenance achieving nothing positive. If folks know something for certain then please share. But this dropped bomblet from Shaun...'1935 and no head clip ?....isn't helpful. Still...the good news is it stays with me. Happy Sunday. Off to Swains Lane. Mel.

Its an old bike it may have had the headset reaplaced at some point. The bike is obviously old just look at the geomtry classic 30's to 50's design. Love it.

Thanks cc