It appears to be badly cross-chained - better send it here for repair Thrifty Bill!

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Yeah, its cross chained to the max right now.

It's amazing.

Jealous!

Finally broke the dry spell (not counting the Trek 220 my mom found LOL)
Replied to a Ad for "Vintage Raleigh" and a second ad from same seller for a "Vintage Schwinn".

Get there and Its a young couple selling off finds/projects to buy a little newer better bike for the young lady. My feeling is they were a garage sale find from the same owner PO. Bundled them like Franks and Made a offer at a price I could make something on a clean up and flip if I dont fall in love with them.

The Schwinn is looking like a 83 Super sport. Looks complete. Paint actually looks good but the decals are absolutely done. Wear on the rings is not so bad. Look forward to getting this one done to ride it. Little smaller then I normally ride at 23" but I hope the top tube is close to 59-60 and that will be in my range wit ha stem swap.

The second one has me perplexed. It is a Raleigh Competition. Can just read the outline of the decal on the top tube. Has the 531 tag as well as the Carlton seat tube logo .Bike has miles and it has miles on replacement parts. Factory should have had a Hurret Jubilee its wearing 1972 Suntour V GT Derailleurs with Suntour bar ends. It also has Shimano hubs shod with Araya rims. Its been Franken biked but with good parts. Unfortunatly the decals are again toast and the paint on those old Raleigh's were not great to start with and this one has lots of miles.

Now here is where the weird begins.
SN is AXXXX and according to Sheldons Retro Raleigh site that makes it a 1966 build (67 model) BUT Sheldon site also says the first Competition was 68 and some sites say 72. I cant find a picture of a 67-71 Copetition with good searches (didn't spend a lot of time at it) It looks like the the 73 in this catalog that interestingly enough seems to be the first catalog to show the Competition with painted rear stays. So with the known issues with the dating I really don know what I have.
I find it sort of weird that all the replacement parts seem to date to about the year the bike looks. I wonder if it is really a 73 and the parts were swapped on at point of sale.

One will have to go for sure. Just not sure what one. Both have interesting aspects.

Damn... see that these are on sale here now for $1100.00

Catch of the year mebbe.

Hi Grim - I can't address the S/N question on the Competition but that DT decal puts it at 1973+. It's anybody's guess as to when the parts were swapped or why, but it's quite a snag regardless.
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I'd take that Raleigh off your hand maybe. ;)

You looking for it cleaned up, as is project or frame?

I'll get some better shots this week and I want to get the rack off it to check the frame and paint under all the tape and crap they have on it to mount it.

This bike was somebody's DD at some point. its actually in decent usable condition. wheels are true, bearings feel good. they were very liberal with the oil and the real hub is particularly filthy and a good bit of wear on the large crank chain ring, less so on the small.

Picked up a donor bike last night, a very unusual bike for sure: a Softride Solo 700C. Bike is mostly tricolor 600 8 speed, which I need for another build. Unfortunately, the brifters had been changed out. Everything works, price was right, and the wheels will look good on my Prologue (then the wheels on the Prologue that looked out of place go on another build).

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As soon as my back recovers, I want to give this crazy bike a ride.

Also picked up this Raleigh mixte: alloy rims, three piece crankset, made in Japan. 4 bikes in four days, that's enough for a while.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6...69bfc992_b.jpg

I know why your back hurts: picking up too many bikes lately! ;) Seriously, hope the back heals soon.

Oh my! A lot of stuff going on there. Makes my head hurt.

'86 Trek 400T Elance.
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Real nice catch on that Black Lightning. I would consider either gold or black bar tape.

Sweet looking 'dale, Chuckk!
Please please please go with black tape though -after all, it's a Black Lightning. Anything else would be like Darth Vader in a pink tutu.

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Yellow bartape kind of goes with the yellow tires .

Well what I had hoped was a Austro-Damiler Vent Noir is actually a A-D SLE. Pictures the guy sent were so bad I couldn't tell a color just that the decals were in bad shape. Looks original except that the Hurret Duo-Par RD has been replaced by a Shimano Tourney and from what I have read...that might just be a upgrade. :lol:

After some haggling because of how messed up the paint is I got it at a price I was ok with and a older trainer that I should be able to sell for $30-40 to make the price even better. Its 531 main triangle and not too brick like. 63cm Need to clean it up and decide what I'm doing with it. Might be Beater II if it rides nice .
Ad pictures later, was to dark when I go home to get them.

Tomorrow I may go look at another bike that is on my short list and see how bad its messed up between sweat caused TT rust and stupid cam crank.


Ohh it has Nervar Star 1004 cranks that looks built like TA. Any chance it will take TA rings to make a triple?

86 Team Fuji
 

Just got from CraigsList...Saved it from a teenager who was TRASHING it. May be too late, the chrome on the chainstay is BAD. Paint and decals still very good, almost all the SunTour Sprint Grouppo...except for the wheels, still Araya, but not apparently Sprint Hubs. Missing hoods, bad tape, one Sprint pedal cap missing.
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Not a bad rescue. You can still find chrome chainstay protectors on Ebay. It might pay to cover your with one.

The local bike shop here in town closed their doors apparently................it's primarily a BMX shop but I did buy there on ocassion. Under former ownership I purchased a couple of bikes and my son raced on their BMX team. Soooooooo...........I rifled through their dumpster this afternoon and found 2 1/2 gallons of MudShine bike cleaner, a couple of 26" cruiser tires, a GT MTB fork and a few other trivial items.

I already posted a separate thread about this bike the other day. Since it may literally have been destined for the dump, I hope nobody minds a double-posting on this thread as well. 1973 Ron Kitching Titanium (rebranded Speedwell).

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I am sure no one minds doing a double take on that gaucho! - After all, how often do you (literally) pull a vintage Ti bike out of the slag heap?

I'm dying to see the "after" photo though!

I think I might cry now, since I can't afford it at the moment. One of you South Texas guys go grab this before I make a bad financial decision!!,,,,BD

http://houston.craigslist.org/bik/2786938823.html

Needless to say, the flow of bicycles to the local Dump slows down, somewhat, in the middle of the Thunder Bay winter. None the less, with the start of the year, the flow begins anew and today a near mint mid-seventies Shields-Nishike International, complete with head badge, showed up, along with a few other mountain bikes and a rocking horse(shoulda tooka pic of that too)...

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