Info wanted, Raleigh Volante

I was having lunch at the girlfriends parents house today, and noticed that in their garage is her brothers old bicycle from his youth . . . its a mint condition Raleigh Volante from the late 80's early 90's, full 531 frame and forks, and a high end for the era shimano groupset, painted in a team banana esq colourway, but does not have the relevant graphics. It has older style horizontal dropouts

I cannot find any info on this model anywhere, and want to make him a fair offer for it as the frame is is in almost new condition, does anyone know more about it?

Bump . . .anyone?

fiddy dorra?

buy the whole bike, and ride it, gears and all.

no puppies need die

offer him at least £70, either way it'll make him happy, and it's a safe line if it turn out to be a very common bike or a rare one.

It seems there's very little info out there on Raleighs. When I found my Scorpio I did a fair bit of searching and found nothing.

I wrote a post on my blog about my Dad's Raleigh Pursuit that I borrowed and I get at least one referral every day from search engines with the term "Raleigh Pursuit", which suggests to me that there are loads of people out there turning up blanks in their Raleigh research!

I suppose as it's never been seen as a premium brand there are less enthusiasts out there sharing the knowledge, especially for cheapo models like mine!

Hi, I came across this forum while trying to find info on MY Raleigh. It's a Volant (no 'e') and I bought it new in 1991. It cost me £375. The colour scheme is a garish orange/pink/black/white, so not the 'Banana Team' colours. It still rides like new but then again I have kept it for 'best'. My other bikes are an even older Falcon tourer (from 1981) and a Carrera mountain bike from Halfords from about 1995. They've all got gears though! Sorry