Originally Posted by bhare
I have been trying to specifically date this Raleigh.
I was looking through Sheldon Brown's catalogues and I couldn't find mine in there. The color scheme originally was white with black. Does anyone specifically know what year Raleigh offered that color?
Thanks.
'73 and '74, if I'm not mistaken.
Don't hope to get more accurate then that, for the Raleigh serial charts online are mostly incomplete (if not 100% erroneous in sections), and cannot be relied on. Consequently, dating the lightweight Raleighs is mostly dependent on component variances, component date stamps, and paint scheme variants.
-Kurt