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In a sales thread, if you don't have anything good to say, don't say it. The C&V marketplace rules are meant to help the seller.

This is a great wheelset at a great price. The hubs alone are...

I'll take a 531 in XL. Thanks!

^ Yep. That's a manly chainguard all right.

Too bad it's not a Manly chainguard!

80's Raleigh Competition in Jersey: http://jerseyshore.craigslist.org/bik/3769788618.html

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Thanks guys. I'd been looking for one of these ... and I did pick up the digital caliper

I guess I really just don't know.

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The lugs are simply "Carlton." They are sometimes referred to as birdmouth lugs. They don't have a special name, but they always indicate an upper end model in the lineup.

The Professional is a...

I'm going to guess a '73 or '74 Gitane. I was thinking TdF, but if others think it's an interclub, OK. It has a Huret-style rear dropout, so you will need a tabbed washer to run a campy style RD. ...

I read this with the typo, and I thought he took the Merckx back and resold it.

Then I figured out that you were anything but sc-x-rewed.\

It's good to have neighbors like this.

Whoa! mod 93 only takes a 38t minimum ring???? who knew.


Nice! You're good to go. You might want to keep that a triple (or not). If you wind up riding to Tofino, it would be useful.

miamijim has got it right. All of 6400 series is tricolor regardless of the logo on the equipment, and I don't think it was ever an official marketing name at Shimano. The boxes for parts had the...

HA! I thought of you when the OP posted that. Glad you chimed in.

Oh, yeah, that's right. Thanks for catching that.



I was also running a 50/36 or a 48/34 or something like that on an SR Apex crankset last fall. I found it frustrating because a greater than...

It really depends on what you want to do. The four bikes I have running now have front:rear 52/44:13/23 w/6 gears, 50/40/30:11/34 w/9, 52/42:13/26 w/8, and 53/39:12/30 w/9. If I were to choose a...

Yeah, that's a great deal. Plus, it's pinned and probably ramped. It's going to shift better than any of the vintage cranks. A 13-28 6 speed freewheel is going to run 102 to 37 gear inches. A...

I think that the LeTour was made with True Temper in the late '80s. The bikes above them in the Schwinn line were Columbus tenax.

I gues I'm wondering about what "it" is. If it's that AD never had anything less than 57cm top tubes, you might be right. If it's that 57cm was the most commonly used Reynolds tubeset, I have no...

This mid 80s 531 Raleigh in Central NJ looks to be in pretty good shape with a reasonable price
http://cnj.craigslist.org/bik/3774790690.html
Raleigh Rapide Reynolds 531 - $200 (CNJ)Very nice 1984...

Ha! Take my "All" like you would take any "all" for Raleighs of the period --- nothing is ever set in stone. Nevertheless, 57cm is a good guess for a top tube. I had a '73 56cm Competition and I...

Most of the Reynolds tubesets from the early 1970s that had Imperial diameters had 57cm top tubes --- from the shortest to the tallest seat tubes. Things start to change later in the 70s, and the...

Yeah, nice job, Matt. I was just channeling the big DIY-brain on Justin when I made that suggestion.

I like that solution, Scott. It's dead easy and looks professional.

T-Mar has it with the 1.4 mm spacing issue. See Sheldon's cribsheet here. For this to work, you need to set it up *precisely* in the 5th cog on the rear. Your offset going to the largest cog is...

Lots of DIY solutions here.

Another option would be a small p-clamp and a small D-ring.
These little steel clips are used for hockey helmets. You can get D-rings at a hardware or sewing...

Yeah, I don't really know if this is true or not. OrtliebUSA is also the importer for Tubus racks, FWIW.