1973 Raleigh Professional silver/black PNW pickup
05-23-23, 02:38 PM
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1973 Raleigh Professional silver/black PNW pickup
Shameless self-promotion. Attic find from this past winter. $240
https://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/b...624145034.html
https://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/b...624145034.html
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05-23-23, 03:58 PM
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Dang. One of the few Raleigh bikes that interest me. And in my size too. Thankfully across the other side of the continent.
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05-23-23, 11:49 PM
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Gorgeous - and an absolute steal at that price. I've paid more for much less Professional in the past. If I was in the PNW, I'd be knocking on your door by now!
GLWTS.
-Kurt
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I'd buy that bike in a heartbeat if I were in the PNW and I'm trying not to buy more bikes, 
. That's my size and I love the color.
. That's my size and I love the color.
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If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
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05-24-23, 10:08 AM
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I'm currently Raleighless. Couldn't pass up a Pro in my ideal size.
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"Buy it for the Brampton Victor boys & girls!"
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Wow! Deal!
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05-24-23, 11:36 AM
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Hubs don't match, right?
Still a helluva deal.
Still a helluva deal.
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05-24-23, 12:05 PM
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Tempting! But, 1/2" too small (easy to live with), yet another bike and it would be a large or small insult to be purchasing it to hang the Mafac Competions I picked up not long ago from a BFer. (Never been a fan of NR brakes. With my hands, simply not good stoppers.)
So I'll keep looking for that perfect bike to be a brake hanger. (I've never ridden or even squeezed Competitions but have admired them since Bernard Thevenet was showing them off as he toured around France.)
So I'll keep looking for that perfect bike to be a brake hanger. (I've never ridden or even squeezed Competitions but have admired them since Bernard Thevenet was showing them off as he toured around France.)
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Half my bikes are fix gears. So track hubs. But QR front because they are road bikes. 2/3s of the rest of my bikes are 7-speeds. With freewheels and rear hubs with working axles. One bike has Phil front and rear. NIce! Matches! The other(s)? Working FW hubs and nice fronts from my deep pile of front hubs. (I'm discovering the sweet spot for 7-speed FW rears may well be the Taiwan OEM hubs. Generic silver but I think they figured out how to make axles that wouldn't curse the bike manufacturers with breaking, recalls and bad reports plus decent bearings. My non-C&V ti custom (inspired by the best of the 1980s Japanese sport bikes though) is 9-speed. Chorus hubs. But that front wanders between bikes depending on what dress she chose to wear and wheat event I
'm taking her to. A pretty Shimano Ultegra likes to put on different dresses so my several good bikes simply take whoever dressed appropriately that day.
'm taking her to. A pretty Shimano Ultegra likes to put on different dresses so my several good bikes simply take whoever dressed appropriately that day.
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