For Sale: 1970's Raleigh build

hello i am selling my second bike build,

the frame is a rattle-can light blue paint job as i bought the frame blasted,

shimano BB

shimano odd crankset with a specialized 34t chainring.

mks used gr-9 with plastic toe clips and odd straps.

the front wheel is a 650c Etrto dish wheel with bontrager tyre all black and machined

the rear wheel is a mavic ma3 hand made laced with a system ex hub ans stainless steal spokes, and a schwalbe stelvio tyre

KMC chain

Chrome drop bars with a polished sliver stem and unknown headset slightly scratched

Seat post in bad condition with a lightly scratched charge spoon seat

alot of chips in the paintwork

a very good simple bike

looking for £125

pick up brighton or drop of east croydon monday to friday.

thanks kaya

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Are these mirror images or is your drive side of your crankset actually on the left side of your bike?

£200-cheap build?
I'll give ya £40 bey

This is a cheap complete bike for peolpe on a budget im looking for around 200 for the full bike.

late 1970's raleigh unknown because i bought it blasted

etrto front dish wheel all black with bontrager tyre

Mavic Ma3 rear wheel hand made with a sytsem ex hub with a schwalbe stelvio tyre

unknown 16t cog

odd shimano crankarms

specialized 34t rainring

mks 1/8 chain

mks gr-9 pedals

plastic large toe clips and off straps

MX brake leaver

unknown brake

unknown drop bars and stem

unknown headset

unknown rusty seat post

charge spoon seat.

the condition of the paint is alright, quite afew chips on the frame and forks

the bars are scratched but nothing a little bar tape could sort out.

he seat has small amounts of scratches

overall i nice beater and could easly be made into a polo bike

thanks for looking

dibs followed by pm's

some photos & frame size will help!

Provisional dibs for a friend!

I'll call him and get back to u asap

Price drop?

Frame size?

Are these mirror images or is your drive side of your crankset actually on the left side of your bike?

judging by the raleigh headbadge the images are indeed mirrored - was slightly worried there!

haha yes they are mirrored haha sorry phone pictures :)

the size is 54cm

i forgot to put on 'for sale' list

970's Raleigh build! cheap!

hello i am selling my second bike build,

the frame is a rattle-can light blue paint job as i bought the frame blasted,

shimano BB

shimano odd crankset with a specialized 34t chainring.

mks used gr-9 with plastic toe clips and odd straps.

the front wheel is a 700c Etrto dish wheel with bontrager tyre all black and machined

the rear wheel is a mavic ma3 hand made laced with a system ex hub ans stainless steal spokes, and a schwalbe stelvio tyre

mks chain

MX brake leaver with an unknown brake

scratched crome drop bars with a polished sliver stem and unknown headset

seat post in bad condition with a lightly scratched charge spoon seat

alot of chips in the paintwork

a very good beater

looking for **sold to harryafc **

thanks kaya

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£200 is not cheap, is there a Gorgeous baby blue premium?!

+1. And a 34 tooth chainring? What's that all about?

I will give you £50 for it if ya can deliver to Norwich

I will give you £50 for it if ya can deliver to Norwich

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Realistic price.
(excluding postage)

shimano odd crankset with a specialized 34t chainring.

damn right. its a lefty crankside.
either that or you've taken the photo through a mirror.

Jokes aside, why would someone buy a beaters beater for £200 ONO when you can have a Fuji track for £299.99 delivered to your front door.

puzzled

It's a really tough decision, this or this http://www.lfgss.com/thread49814.html for a score more? Hmmmmmmm

Ha ha come on guys you are being a little harsh, it does say o.n.o...........
How about £25?
And i'll even collect!!!
The baby blue paint must be expensive!! joker

ha ye clearly mirrored looking at that chainring and wondering how and/why you did that

Look again closely at photo 1. The chain actually passes though the spokes from the RHS chainring, to the LHS rear sprocket (the photo being, as many have realised, reveresed). This was an experimental project Raleigh carried out in the late 70's, but were forced to abandon after the controversial stage win of Deniese Brady in the Belgian Open of 1981. This idea limped on for a few years, most notably in the early "Sidebender" Grifters and later Striker variants, but the engineering tooling of the necessary "latchkey" spokes fell victim to the viscous Trades Union/Management relations in Nottingham at prevailing at the time. The main purpose of the design was to cross-torque the drive to allow straighter acceleration and less rear wheel tramp,which Raleigh design chiefs believed was the future, given the massive growth of Eastern European thighs at that time. However, the public explosion, during the final of the East Berlin 376k Sprint which was televised to a trans-soviet audience of over 3,763,892 millions of viewers, of the thighs of Ulga Korbett (later to become both USSR champion gymnast and latterly cake shop leasee), put paid to the attendant advertising campaign. Following this, and the tragic death of Les "the rat-tail" Dixson in an accident at the factory in early Feb 1979, Raleigh floundered and eventually ceased all production, becoming Conservative Party Cloning Centre in its later years.

So all in all, a bargain.

i am selling this for £125

alright the item is not for sale anymore!

Shame, I saw it and it's not a bad bike!