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Old 11-07-16, 02:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Johno59
Over the summer I encountered this very phenomena. I completely stripped two Raleigh Lenton Sports. 1946 and 1947. Everything was stock and the same except the lugs and the brazing. All the lugs on the 1947 were pitted and the seam wasn't flat. The brazing wasn't even and had leaked out heavily on one side and left unfilled
I kept checking and rechecking the serial numbers, catalog etc.etc as I was convinced it was a bootleg. But everything else (including the flamboyant sparkling green paint still on the steerer) stamped it as genuine
. It must have been apprentice Monday or a hangover day as the poor quality of workmanship was something I have never encountered on a old Raleigh.
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