Originally Posted by nlerner
Below is a pic of the early 70s Raleigh Super Course I snagged on eBay a few weeks ago. I'm not exactly sure of the date as it has just about all of the features of the Super Course shown in the 1970 catalog except the headbadge is the Raleigh heron, not the Carlton symbol. 1971 is the only catalog not online, so I'll take a wild stab and place it there. Everything seems to be original except for tires: steel cottered Stronglight crankset, Normandy luxe hubs in Weinmann 27" alloy rims (with no hook bead), Weinmann 750 centerpull brakes, brake levers with hard pastic Carlton hoods, GB stem and Maes bars, Huret deraillers with the crazily long Huret downtube shift levers, Brooks B5N saddle. I paid $83, and while the seller had difficulty figuring out how to ship it to me for a reasonable price from Ohio to Mass (lesson: watch out for sellers with zero feedback), he was kind enough to drop it off at my brother's house (20 min away from him), and my bro packed and shipped.
Neal
Neal,
What you've got is somewhere between 1972 and 1975 if my memory serves me well. That's back when I was wrenching/selling them for a living. It's probably closer to the end of my guess, as most Super Courses I remember came with Simplex Prestige, and it was around 74/75 before the Huret Jubilee started making an appearance, at least in my area (Erie, PA). By 78, they'd gone Japanese with the whole line, no more cottered cranks (which I've always preferred to the cheap line cotterless, weight be damned). I'd never seen a Super Course with Carlton decals, didn't realize they'd even done them that way until I got back into the sport last year.
Syke
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