cudak888 

In for servicing; was on eBay not long ago. U.S. bike shop sticker suggests it isn't a U.K. or Canadian market example. 70-4 hub date, with aftermarket Mafac brake levers.













-Kurt

robertob

Cool, never seen one that color. Had a green one that went with the ex, but was one of the non-folders with 451 wheels.

Amesja

Sweet.

nlerner

Whoah! Looks kind of tangerine at this point. That shop is well known in C&V annals.

Neal

Zaphod Beeblebrox 

hehe, neal said annals.

I dig those tires.

cudak888 

Indeed - the sticker nearly distracted me from the color when I saw it.

That said, these photos don't reflect the actual color that well - there is a noticeable pinkish tint in the paint. I'll try to color-adjust these or photograph another set.

-Kurt

kiwigem

Is that the same color as the one on veloscene.net?

tugrul

I like orange... but I don't like it on here.

Give me my coffee Twenty or give me death

rookgirl

Love the shop decal!

cudak888 

If it is, it has faded a great deal. Flipping it over should indicate whether that is the case or not.

What would you say to a black Twenty? I've been meaning to strip and paint my rusted, white '69.

-Kurt

Chris_in_Miami

Very festive color, that bike sort of belongs in our tropical paradise

Pompiere

When I was fixing up my old folder (not a Raleigh), I had a hard time finding 20 inch tires that were not white. On the orange bike, they look good.

katezila

I love those sidewalls. They look a bit chartreuse to me!

cudak888 

They are 1980's BMX tires - white tread, gum sidewall.

-Kurt

tugrul

With some tasteful gold pin striping?

cudak888 

Just gold decals. There aren't any proper lugs to pinstripe on the Twenty, save for the headtube joint (which wouldn't look good pinstriped).

-Kurt

cudak888 

I color-adjusted this photo in an attempt to represent the true color better. As you can see, there is a noticeable pinkish hue to the orange. I flipped over the bike and found it to be exactly the same on the areas shaded from sunlight; hence, I have to assume this color is original and is not a faded, bright orange Twenty:



I took the liberty of photographing it with my own Coffee '70. They look nice together:





-Kurt

Chris_in_Miami

Nice, I'd consider that color "peach." Was Raleigh's official name for it "flamingo orange?"

Michael Angelo 

Id love to get a Raleigh twenty.

photogravity

What a neat find! Raleigh really had a good thing going for a long time. I suppose it was a combination of their elegant designs and decent quality.

I'm not sure why, but for some reason I'm intrigued with folding bikes of late. They are just too cool! Admittedly though, pretty much anything that I can pedal and that has two wheels is intriguing to me lately... I've got the bike bug bad and I'm driving my poor wife crazy!

cudak888 

I have no idea at all. It isn't listed in any Raleigh catalog, and it's the first I've seen of it.

On the other hand, I have seen the bright orange hue on the Twenty on the aforementioned blog, but only once - on a Canadian-market (though Nottingham-built) Raleigh Sports. I saw one photograph before it disappeared into the interwebs.


The Twenty doesn't fold well and weighs as much as a Raleigh Sports, but it rides just as good. The pivot is properly overbuilt and could hold twice as much weight as the seatpost could handle.

I'm not about to say it's the best riding folder ever made - I'm sure most Moultons far exceed it - but it's the best inexpensive C&V folder that isn't a Moulton.

-Kurt

kingsting

That might be "pumpkin", a color used on Raleigh Choppers of the same era.

cudak888 

That's it.

I wonder if Raleigh's secondary paint choices depended entirely on what left-over Chopper color was available. Seems par for the course with Nottingham.

-Kurt

nlerner

Pumpkin?! Is this going to be another one of those Bridgestone/Rivendell threads?

Neal

cudak888 

Not unless it renamed as the "Sam Homer Twenty."

-Kurt