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Old 08-05-09 | 10:12 PM
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tmoneygetpaid
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Bikes: '82 Trek 613, '83 Lotus Eclair, '86 (?) Yokota Ranger, '85 Schwinn Cimarron

Help ID this English(?) Bike

I was browsing at a shop today and saw this frame. The pics are pretty bad-- light was low and I snapped them in a hurry, but I remember some of the details. It had nuovo record derailers, a campy headset I couldn't make out, campy crankset with the shield-and-tire logo, chromed nervex headtube lugs, no chrome on the stays, semi-wrapped stays. The dropouts weren't stamped at all. The stem was a long GB, bars were wide with pretty sharp bends, and it had non-aero drilled levers with white hoods that looked like the carlton-stamped hoods I've seen. The seatpost was a no-clamp type. Brakes were weinmann center pulls.

The shop owner thought it was an international based on the brake bridge, stay wrap, and nervex lugs. But it's a deep blue, as you can see. He said he thought it may be a repaint, but I looked closely at the headtube and saw hand painted gold outlines around the lugs, which doesn't rule out a repaint, but suggests it's unlikely. The paint has been scraped in some places, and I couldn't see any traces of an original paint that the blue went over. I checked catalogs online and neither the Professional or the International were made in this color.

Anyone have an idea what it is? If it's a raleigh, it looks like late 60s- early 70s, right?



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