Raleigh Ti (the red one with black and yellow on it), any good?

Are these bikes any good. I've noticed hippy has one and assume that since he's on here posting every 2 or 3 minutes he must feel passionately about fixed-gear bikes so it can't be too bad. Any opinions on them?

Nah they're rubbish. Hippy doesn't know nowt about bikes he just doesn't have anything to do all day... :)

your only saying that 'cos he's visiting the g/f's parents in poland 8^)

but your right....

Ahhh, that explains why it's been quiet.

They're just great frames - were built for professional racers (Someone won the Tour de France on Raleigh/TI frame) and handle really well on the track and street combined. They were quite expensive and hard to get at the time so there aren't that many out there.

All Reynolds tubing (531 and up), nice lugs and handmade by Carlton Cycles (though depending on the year they may have already been absorbed into the megacorp that was Raleigh) in Nottingham.

And for once Raleigh didn't do anything odd to them. They're standard english threading, 1" fork, 27.2m seatpost and the graphics are quite nice.

they are super nice IMO. something i'd like to own one day.

They must be awesome and strong to boot, Hippy's got one and:

a; he's really fat
b; he's ridden it all the way from Austria, which is the other side of the world so must be, like, miles and miles..
c; he crashes a lot and it hasn't bust

shame they look shit ;)

hahaha

also i recall he paid £250 for the whole bike.............so not too bad.

Someone told me that he actually rode it into the sea in australia, and just held his breath till he washed up in the thames. Apparent;y he's never cleaned it since or anything. If it surived that it must be good

Yeah but the back break no longer works ;oD

I believe it was a freewheel to start, but he just let it rust and seize up an now it's fixed...

look at the frame number on the bottom bracket the better ones are the SB frame numbers those are the specialist frames / custom builds

My dad has one of these in the shed, gathering dust and (hopefully not on the frame) rust. It is a road bike and has forward facing dropouts. But it looks fixable.

I really must liberate it from him.

They're shit. I would sell mine but my gf thinks it goes well with the curtains so I'm not allowed..
If you see any more for sale let me know.. not that I'm interested.. ;-)
P.S. You're all cnuts! :P

do the replica TI's (an europa to be specific) have a standard english thread or 26TPI

I'm very sure it's regular BSA threading. I can check tonight for certain if you need.

If you could check i would really really appreciate this.

thanks

September 1st

https://www.raleigh.co.uk/gb/en/ti-raleigh-relaunch/

They got the gearing all wrong.

If you email them quick they'll be able to fix that ready for launch, there's still time.

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threadsraleigh-1990s-frame-%C2%A395.426201/#post-3126199

Any ideas what tubing this might be?

531 competition was quite late on its actually more basic than it sounds with just the 3 main tubes butted.
If it is SBDU as the seller thinks the frame number should be different to Nottingham or Worksop frames.

I seem to remember SBDU morphed into the Special Products Division. They did M Trax frames with straight forks. Would that be in 853? After my time lol.