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That Raleigh reminds me of a friend of mine, who bought an old early 1980s Raleigh in a flea market for £20, covered in dust and spider webs from years of shed storage. All he did was to pump the old dried and flaky tires, inner tube could still hold air... He then took a ferry to France and rode all the way to Marseille, with just a few sections on train. Epic.
He did have an inner tube explosion, going downhill round the Puy En Velay... But everything else hold fine.