It has a Raleigh-branded rear derailler, Suntour Spirit front, Zues cranks.

Are you sure it's a Competition?

Yea. Only thing that came in black. Also, I zoomed in on the high-rez pic - the sticker is still mostly there.

The cursive "Raleigh" on the downtube places it fairly early on or pre-1972. Those chrome lugs are certainly unusual for a Competition and regularly found on the International. And here's the same bike in green on eBay right now:

https://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Raleigh-...3286.m14.l1318

Neal

Yea, the lugs are what I fell in love with. This is gonna be my next 3-speed!

I just couldn't figure what's up with the shifters up there...



Here's a close up of the 'Raleigh' - so this places it early 70s?

1969

Ah, yes, yer right, I found it in the catalog. 1969. Even has the lugs. The components and shifters threw me off - I didn't even think to look that far back.

Too cool.

My guess too. As someone said, there's a green one on ebay. I had a couple over the years, frame is pretty much like an International.

Yea, but it's in black! The only color bikes should be!

You might get some disagreement on that from those Eddie Merckx Moltini Orange owners!

Neal

1969, I had the same bike. Same size too. 531 tubing, chrome head lugs. The nicest part of the bike was the front fork. Beautiful long bend. I actually raced on it in 1980. Crashed and put a huge bend in the top tube, oh well. Its a classic Raleigh. Get rid of the stem shifters and get a Campy rear derailleur, and youre in business.