Originally Posted by
USAZorro
The serial numbers from this era are quite consistent - aside from some starting with "A". My (built in 1972 for the 1973 model year) Competition has capella lugs with a "G" serial.
I have a 1973 RRA (an H####) and also an International which both have the "correct" Nervex Professional lugs. Unquestionably, a lot of the 531 frames were made using capella lugs, but it wasn't consistent.
Raleigh used the RRA model name on a number of different bikes. There is the famous pre war RRA, there's your model, and there's my model RRA (full Reynolds 531 with Suntour dropouts) that was sold
AFAIK only in the UK. And then there's the inexpensive, hi tensile RA sold in the US. This is my '81 RRA which was built in the Worksop factory per the serial no. I believe, from what I've read, that the later UK RRA s (and it had a short production of a few years) were built in the Nottingham factory.
