Originally Posted by
jebensch
This bike must be from from Raleigh's experimental 'bendy' period of design. Seller wants 235 bucks, with no mention of damage, mind you.
A local-to-me flipper listed a Raleigh with bent seat stays like that on CL a couple of months ago. The concensus was that they got bent when the bike had a child seat mounted or when the bike was pulling a trailer. When it was pointed out to the seller, he pulled the ad.