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Old 03-26-11 | 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by USAZorro
I realize this is merely anecdotal, but I have a few Raleighs that were made in Worksop (the Carlton facility), and have seen quite a few more. From what I have seen, frames on the lower end models are more likely to have blobs, gaps and such, than do top end frames.
True, but I was talking apples-to-apples, since the 502 and 555SL bikes the OP references are mid-level models.
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