Hardly! If it really is rhe equivalent of the raleih then its same as reynolds 501, not gaspipe! Try a chinese mtb if you want to compare with gaspipe! This frame is not heavy!
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I didn't say it was heavy, i said it aint 531 equivalent.
The first racer I had was a Pugeot equipe with 12sp simplex gears and carbolite 103 tubing. It was £109.99 from Halfrauds and I remember the price cos I did a paper round for a year to buy the thing. It was an ace bike but my mate got a raleigh record sprint fro his birthday and that was £220 (501 tubing). The cheapest 531 bike was a Viscount and was about £270 which this posh kid I knew had - we were completely in awe of it and the difference between that bike and mine was night and day.
If you know how Peugeot were able to build a bike for less than half the cost of the Viscount then you'd probably be rich enough not to need to sell that frame :) - which is still a nice frame btw..
I didn't say it was heavy, i said it aint 531 equivalent.
The first racer I had was a Pugeot equipe with 12sp simplex gears and carbolite 103 tubing. It was £109.99 from Halfrauds and I remember the price cos I did a paper round for a year to buy the thing. It was an ace bike but my mate got a raleigh record sprint fro his birthday and that was £220 (501 tubing). The cheapest 531 bike was a Viscount and was about £270 which this posh kid I knew had - we were completely in awe of it and the difference between that bike and mine was night and day.
If you know how Peugeot were able to build a bike for less than half the cost of the Viscount then you'd probably be rich enough not to need to sell that frame :) - which is still a nice frame btw..