MGOOF : Modern groupset on old frame

🍊 Carrera is Juicy

What a beautiful bike.

ooo yeah

Here's my first contribution, Raleigh Record Ace with personal painting

I like it, great paint - I would ! Please move the rear wheel forward in the drop-outs, it looks geriatric ;-)

Are you sure it's a Record Ace, they were usually those awful Team Lotus colours and 501 tube. To find one with chrome like yours, you have to go back to the 1940's; I'd say your frame was built to 700c, not the 27 x 1 1/4" of that period. Interested to know the frame number.

Im not sure

its "6481"
it was a frame with that color and stickers

https://servimg.com/view/12509046/114
https://i.servimg.com/u/f17/12/50/90/46/20200211.jpg

Main info is the third digit, zero is 1980. Just pondering what it is.

Nice colour, reminds me of the eau de nil of BITD

Well, I showed my lack of knowlwdge well there :-( Would you believe it, the exact same model has just come up on eBay, with chrome and all. The rest of my thoughts still hold, congrats - keep up the good work !

Just out of curiosity have you got the ebay link.

modernish group set on oldish frame

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Nice frame with poor groupset.
Switch the downtube cable hanger, they are wrong side :)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165912396705?hash=item26a12643a1%3Ag%3AS1YAAOSwAG5j1qAi&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA0NA%2BJqNAwjUB9lrdYNoUoS5xDatAbk%2FtLv4dsNB%2BG4TsE8AvCRvw0dpGzc3ukdNIkfIvw37SUOH%2BNTV7%2F8pHal9ziatq0GMZqI6hSxMUyP73dhZDxPYCoNfm7MnLto9YvLRxV6%2Bp9UWC3QwC3fhU%2FSpOUAUjW43gfRKlY%2FUePhuk2FvSnhOBdK2MU5RDBe83nGhhDbl1TE6MhsB4y9le6UidDbPgPyI84r9N7GGSL1avW59vbykZ1A0Ttf2JR%2FRZZg7G0ofW4kmmRF0uuf7asUI%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_jv9O-_YQ&LH_BIN=1&LH_ItemCondition=4

Is that chrome or silver paint? Still can't work out what the frame is that's been repainted above. Not quite sure it's a record Ace as it would have been ice green, fluted seat stays, and no chrome.

I left the bike shop in 1978/79 and lost track of Raleigh / Carlton lol

A frame and paintjob that good demands better parts than those

Please move the rear wheel forward in the drop-outs

This plz^

Not sure.

The fork is quite a way off the frame.

Like a path racer.

I've got that exact same frameset, Columbus Matrix no?
Or maybe not cos I could only squeeze a 5 speed freewheel in there

It is Columbus Matrix! Would love to see a picture of yours because I've barely come across another since owning this. Also, it might give me some build inspiration to get Chirac and Five-Hats off my case! (Just kidding, those comments are fair.)

I haven't owned it from new so I don't know if the previous owner has done some cold-setting magic on it. Currently has a seven speed rear wheel in there.

Clissold Park?

Similar… sort of

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That thing is fucking sick. Increase the bitsa factor with an old Mavic rear brake for the win

I need to get an inline seat post.

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And BDHU ; )
Wow !

Thread ending. What a bike