That's a beautiful hill-climbing bike, Lasc. Your seat tube lug is like the ones on the 753 Team Techniums (and the cousins from England, the Dynatechs).
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Lascauxcaveman
Since tech is a Greek root, maybe I'm really asking to see your Technios. Whatever the plural, googling around reveals we've had a lot of Technium threads here over the years (mostly along the lines of "Anybody ever heard of a Technium before?") but no "show us" thread yet, so here it is.
Tell us what you know for sure about yours. Tell us what you think you know about yours. Dates, materials used, which frame parts are steel/aluminum/titanium - there were lots of combinations, apparently! If you have access to Raleigh USA catalogs post 'em up. It seems from the late 1980s 'til the early 2000s, all the Raleigh catalogs available online are scarce and UK-specific? I'd love to be proven wrong on that, so post links if ya got 'em.
What I know: Aluminum main tubes (Easton E9). Stays, BB, seat cluster & head tube unit are all steel, with 4130 cro-mo steel fork. Made in "Seattle." (Kent, WA.)
Speculation: Based on the Shimano Exage Action brakes, I think this bike was originally specced with that group. Everything else was changed around at some point before I picked it up, and the parts it's currently wearing are a mis-mash updating to my taste.
Speculation: 1990 model year? Based on the R90******* serial number and pics of a lot of purported '91 models posted online that look similar, but not exactly like this bike.