Originally Posted by
bikerosity57
Well, I can't for the life of me imagine what kind of FOOL would think that placing a dippity-doo fake label on Reynolds tubing was a good idea, but it seems typical for a BS American rip-off company to do so. Could it have been a "trademark" issue?
Raleigh and Reynolds were parts of the same company then. Raleigh sold the marketing rights (i.e. the name) to Huffy. Huffy sold Asian-made bikes and US (Seattle) made bikes under the Raleigh USA name. Very possible that it might have been part of an agreement, but on the other hand, Huffy sold Raleigh USA bikes with both 753 and 531 stickers. Quite possible that it is another "Columbus Tenax" or "Columbus Bianchi Special" story, where 'consumer grade' (whatever that might mean) SL or SP was stickered with those names by Schwinn and Bianchi.