Originally Posted by
georgiaboy
Nice bike! Especially the geometry. The seat tube angle is extremely nice allowing your saddle to sit nicely behind the pedals. You can really propel this bicycle very efficiently.
That era Raleigh Competition is an interesting bike. It’s been described on the C&V forum as a “1970s bike with 1930s geometry,” and that’s not too far off. A lot of the British club bikes c.1935-1960 that were intended for fixed/SS had 71-degree seat and 73-degree head angles or they were72-degree parallel. The old British cycling manuals disapproved of standing climbing and advocated sitting further back and focusing on deliberately “turning ‘em ‘round.” Easier when you’re further back than contemporary thought.