Originally Posted by
maddog34
That's a weird video - he shows all the crap plastic-on-steel components on a gas-pipe frame and then says it's better than something from Taiwan costing more. Raleigh UK was capable of building nice stuff but they made an awful lot of junk from the 1980s up until they shut down the Nottingham frame-building works. Take away the often fancy paint on the low-end models and you were left with something someone could build in his shed with a stick welder; broken frames weren't rare, but still public belief in Raleigh as a quality brand persisted.