Originally Posted by
Kontact
I'm not sure why you aren't able to understand:
Raleigh made a line of sport touring Techniums. They all had about the same geometry, eyelets and 27" wheels. They were made from '86 through at least 1989, and they all had model numbers in the 400 range.
The Tri-Lite you linked to is not one of them. It is one of the Technium racing bikes, and is not a replacement for the sport touring 400s. Neither were the Technium city bikes, nor the Technium MTBs. Instead, they were 4 different kinds of bikes that, in some years, were all made at the same time. The 400s were made from '86 through at least '89, while the Tri-Lite and other race geometry bikes were made from '87 on. City started in '87, MTB in '88.
Okay, this is the end of the discussion for me, but the 400-series was discontinued in 1988. Yes, there were other types of Techniums, but the road models had already been re-directed toward avid road cyclists. There were four road models offered in the 1989 catalogue, all of them with a more competitive build. These were the Pro, the Comp, the Prestige and the Pre. Here are two of them from 1989.
