Originally Posted by
Salamandrine
Yeah, I think that's likely. I'm not a Raleigh guy, but that does look like a frameset plus random parts type build. It appears to be a Raleigh fork, but for the wrong frame, or more likely it was built up from a frameset by an amateur, and they simply didn't figure out that the steer tube needed to be trimmed. .
The latter. There's no possibility that it's for the wrong frame. See this thread:
1982-83 Raleigh International Identification? Raleighsonic bike
-Kurt