Originally Posted by
ohjonnybegoode
The sticker at the bottom of the seat tube says it's Raleigh 555sl...all tubes double butted cro-mo....might it be similar to 531?
555SL some form of seamed cro-mo. Nobody knows what it is, though I suspect Tange Infinity. Only Raleigh 555
RSL is Reynolds 531. 555T also exists; yet another unknown cro-mo.
It was entry-level only in the sense of the Road Sport lineup. Below it were the Sport Touring, which consisted of:
Team U.S.A.
Olympian
Marathon
Record
Pursuit
Sportif
...in that order. I listed the entire lineup here:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...1#post11205269
Retro Raleighs has the '85 catalog images.
-Kurt