Show us your Vintage Raleighs!

[Gold Street Customs]

Heres a 75 Folder,and its still for sale

[sailorbenjamin]

Ok, I'm back. I just wrote a nice long post with lots of attachments and then accidentally deleted it.
Where was I? Oh, there's this thing. It was built in the Carlton factory around 1966. It's not 531 but it has chrome lugs. Might be a Rapide.

It'll look closer to this when I'm done.

I had a shiny DL-1 for a while.

I got bored, though and ratted out an old rust bucket that I found.

I picked up this sad looking Nottingham Phillips. It's supposed to look like a Sports but I put it back together with different parts.



Oh, I almost forgot these two Sports. They're mostly parted out but they're free for the asking and postage. I've got other parts, some for free, some for a little money.


Then theres the ghosts of Raleighs past. This is a '28 Golden Arrow. I traded it to a friend who put modern wheels on it and gave me back the originals. I've had them on about 6 other bikes but I think they'll stay on the black Phillips.


This was one of the bikes he traded me for it. It's a '49 Sport.

This was an 80s MTB. It wasn't made in England but it was still pretty nice.

Here's a '59 Birmingham Phillips. It's pre merger and has Phillips chainring, Phillips pedals and Phillips grips.



The fenders are not the usual Raleigh pattern things either.

And here's a '59 Hector. It looks a lot like a Birmingham Phillips to me.




And here's a '67 "The James" that I'll be flipping when the snow goes away. Doesn't look like a Raleigh but it claims to be made in England.

[sailorbenjamin]

Here's how to put your Raleigh together.




Here's a few things to look out for while shopping. Some early 70s bikes, maybe from the Gazelle factory had flip flop hubs.

I've run across a couple of "Terry" saddles. They're sorta like vinyl, sorta like painted canvas. They haven't been made in years but I don't think they're really collectable yet.

Original rubber is always cool.

So are quadrant shifter. The knob isn't original.

And finally, here's some random eye candy.








Great idea for a thread, H. Thanks for your patience while I rambled on there.

[tucker]

Sailorbenjamin, nice collection I love the bars on the Golden Arrow, that would have been a tough one to part with.

[Rustinkerer]

Wow, a lot more of Birmingham's finest that I would have expected here! Raliegh is one brand I don't have. But, I do have a New Hudson that was likely made by them. 26" with rod brakes, bougt it from Flying Dingo a couple years ago, and haven't got around to doing anything with it. -Adam

[Hsean]

After looking at the Golden arrow it makes me wonder if thats what My raleigh is, it has the same bars on it and the style looks the same. crank arms and brake leavers too, mine may be a deluxe version due to lighting

[sailorbenjamin]

That GA was hard to part with. It felt better going to a friend. He's put lots and lots of miles on it, way more than I ever would.
They just started making repro bars like that. I think it was Nitto or Soma. I'll look that up. They weren't really comfortable on a bike that was too small for me to begin with.
Sean, you still have one of the coolest Raleighs out there.
Ben

[Hsean]

My thoughts with replacing parts on an old bike with modern parts is not to good. lol unless you keep all old parts and put back on later.
My biggest problem with my raleigh is if I lock it up and come back and the bars are missing. I know alot of people want those, but i'm never to far from it!
The Bars look very bice on these old bikes, the headlamp makes it look that much better. mine takes this weird size of battery thats nolonger around to. or dyno hub power, I just recently got a replacement rear light assembly, it's hard to find them that old sometimes.

It's an interesting ride though, when your riding it, theres alot of flex in the forks. it's also alot faster then most other 3 speeds i've owned, only reason why the bars are flipped is because frames to small. with them flipped it fits way better. I think i'm the perfect owner for it to, it gets well maintained and never sees Rain and is now sleeping under my bed for winter. lol

[thatismytruck]

Hmm KZ1000 thems some nice ones, it's to bad the green two are in that condition, that color of that model are much harder to find. I dig the black sports. it looks new lol

Funny you say that. Nearly every Raleigh 3 Speed I've ever seen in person is that color green.

Big piece of junk. looks neat but the quality was not.

Love rod brake Raleighs/Rudges/Hercules/ etc.

[Hsean]

Color could also be due to where people live maybe. To us the holy grail of Raleigh sports is the Gold color, thats something you only see once in a while

[sailorbenjamin]

I was a little bothered that my buddy put the modern parts on that bike when he told me about it but when I saw it in person I had to admit it looked great. He was very careful to select parts that improved performance while still looking right. He spent like $700 doing it, too. It's a very impressive bike.
Here's the link for those Lauterwasser bars;
http://www.somafab.com/bar_lauterwasser.html

[Hsean]

Atleast it went to a good home. thems neat bars, however nothing can replace the old ones, their look is just so great lol

[Graylock]

ANd something special.

You know I like that one.

I see some other Raleigh built bike posted here. I have more Raleigh's and english builts in my collection than any other brand. People give them to me as I'm about to pick up a ladies Phillips from the original owner who has had it for 48 years I think. I would like to post this picture of a Gazzelle that I found because I'm trying to date it but I can't date the back hub. I thought they stopped making these so that they could make Robin Hoods.




Graylock

[Hsean]

What size are the tires Ihad the same hub on one of the bikes I got. if the tires are 26x 1 1/4 it may be a 50's model thats what the one I had was

[cashman]

Does this count?



I don't have a vintage Raleigh bike, but do have vintage Raleigh parts catalog from the late 1960's. Thanks!!!