Does anyone have insight re: the Carlton built Competitions? Mine looked like



before I stripped and painted it (with lots of new braze, a modern seat pin, bottle bosses and Campy standard hanger detail. (Bike apparently missed the brazing operation and was held to together with paint and and tack brazes or pins and had a couple of cracked tubes; paint not being a very good structural support).

My thinking is that mine is a '73 (Mk11?; I didn't see/notice any Mk II decal) because it had the older Reynolds 531 decals that ran through '73 but Raleigh or Carlton could easily have had a pile of those decals and just kept using them. (Nothing to see now. No decals and the chrome was in tough shape so it is gone. Just a very ordinary black bike with a not very ordinary ride.

Ben