Originally Posted by
steelbikeguy
It's not every day that one see's a component engraved with the name of a bike shop! I wonder if that was supposed to keep track of ownership??
I think Michael's survived by serving the college students, but there were signs that they weren't the average Raleigh shop. Maybe it was the wall size photo of Jeff Bradley (if memory serves) when you walked in? Or maybe it was the little shrine to Andy Hampsten in the back? This was in the 1981 to mid 80's, when the shop was still on the corner. They later moved to a larger space that had been Nim's Sportsman Exchange.
Very nice frame! Lots of work went into thinning that seat lug!
Steve in Peoria
Tx!
Yeah, the guy I got it from said they loaned lots of parts and all else out. He also said these brakes came with the bike when he got it but who knows. It was here in PDX when I got it.
I saw a story where Hampsten checked in on Micheal and he was having a tough time with a leaky roof so Andy hung out and fixed it for him, this was well into his Pro days.
The whole frame is like that lug, it has huge fork blades and when Andy from Strawberry saw it he confirmed the build story, he also went a little nuts showing it to several people at the show, had me take the front wheel off to look at the fork tangs.
Its pretty cool, a bit small but rides very nice and the PDX connection is golden for me.
