Originally Posted by
thumpism
Nice find. No shop sticker on it? I sold a few of those back in the day and Raleighs of that vintage had some nice flash.
No shop sticker. My LBS worked in a shop back in these days. They were Raleigh distributors. Once the Huffy buy happened, all their their competition had to say was: Oh, that's a Huffy now." They finally gave up the fight and dropped the line. Shame, it's a very nice bike!
I regreased the hubs and put on some 1-1/8th tires. Crap...front fits fine, rear won't take it. The front has about 4mm clearance with the bigger tires as does the seat stay bridge. It's the brake that is just touching the tire.
This bike is super sharp. The color is a deep teal with a light teal head tube. The graphics are classy as can be.