Raleigh Super Course dating
04-04-09, 05:52 PM
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Raleigh Super Course dating
Recently picked up a 25.5" bronze green Super Course, which, as far as I can reckon from internet documentation, is a 1970 or 71. Would like to pin it down, if anyone can help with the info.
The bike sports a Milremo stem, with red painted insets (haven't seen these in any pics online), Nervex lugs (but a much less-interesting BB shell), the script downtube Raleigh decal, an oval head badge, riveted to the head tube, and the serial # is stamped on the outside of the non-drive side rear dropout, and reads: 186185
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The bike sports a Milremo stem, with red painted insets (haven't seen these in any pics online), Nervex lugs (but a much less-interesting BB shell), the script downtube Raleigh decal, an oval head badge, riveted to the head tube, and the serial # is stamped on the outside of the non-drive side rear dropout, and reads: 186185
Thanks in advance!
04-04-09, 07:08 PM
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Oval headbadge and cursive Raleigh downtube decal places it 1968-1970. Pics would help.
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04-04-09, 09:37 PM
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Thought I could pull a fast one there...heh heh. Here are some pics of the SC. By the way, while I've got your attention, what's the correct seat post size here? I pulled out what seems to be a 25.8 Kalloy micro-adjust. The seat tube cluster was cranked in pretty tightly to hold it. Maestro Brown's database lists the SC for 71-77 as 26.4. Is this also true for 1970, or earlier?
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
04-04-09, 09:55 PM
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Man, those photos look so much like my '70 Super Course I'm getting a college flashback. Except for the oval headbadge. Mine definitely had the heron profile outline. Yours must be a '68 or '69.
04-05-09, 04:45 AM
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Yup, '68 or '69 and seatpost size is likely 26.2mm or at least that's largely been true for the '71-'72 SCs I've had.
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04-05-09, 01:35 PM
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And yet, it seems there was no 25.5" model offered before 1970, while the oval headbadge was found on the 1970 models, at least in the catalogs:
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/retroraleighs/#catalogues
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/retroraleighs/#catalogues
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Good point. Call it a 1970 then as they switched to the Heron headbadge the next year.
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04-06-09, 07:31 AM
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That same exact Milremo stem also came on my '62 Falcon Black Diamond
