I see bikes come to Bicycles for Humanity, many of which I give myself, that are really just a rebranded something or other. For example, we have a Glider road bike at the shop which is really a Raleigh Clubman. (Should have taken a picture but didn't.) The headbadge holes in the Glider headtube match up with the Raleigh headbadge, I think though I have not checked carefully. I know, I know, is there actually a question? Yes...

Is it unethical to paint and rebadge the bike as a Raleigh, even though it was sold as a Glider?

This situation must manifest itself, time and again, considering all of the built the same, but for the other company, bicycles that have come and gone, over the years.

I have no intention of doing this, myself, but I have wondered at the concerns a few times. The Glider, incidentally, will likely get rebuilt and sold to a university student for sixty or seventy dollars. And who knows, it might end up in the snow bank, like the drop dead gorgeous Nishiki mountain bicycle, sitting directly across the street from my house. It has been abandoned and left at the mercy of Mother Nature. By next summer, it will be mint no more:-(

Anyway, thoughts on this would be interesting to hear.