Show me your Raleigh 20?
03-25-19 | 03:25 PM
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Show me your Raleigh 20?
Looking for some inspiration for setting up my first folder, a Raleigh 20. Anyone update one of these? I've gone over Sheldons pages and have a bunch of ideas, I'd love some inspiration!
03-25-19 | 05:34 PM
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Hey Friend! You might want to see if your thread can be moved to CV. This is a modern crowd with newer folders.
But just to make you feel at home... what size wheels are your R20, 406 or 451? Both of ours are Canadian models.
Edit: mine has the N prefix on the serial# plus the curved pedals so it’s an English model. But it’s spent time in Canada!
English is great too.
But just to make you feel at home... what size wheels are your R20, 406 or 451? Both of ours are Canadian models.
Edit: mine has the N prefix on the serial# plus the curved pedals so it’s an English model. But it’s spent time in Canada!
English is great too.
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03-29-19 | 05:25 AM
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Wonderful examples! Great to see a few more C&V folks over this way as they add a touch of "Class" 
to they otherwise modern folding bike scene. 
to they otherwise modern folding bike scene.
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03-29-19 | 06:49 PM
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As much as I like seeing the original machines, it sure is a hoot to see all the different ideas of what members want their bikes to become!
Bravo everyone!
i certainly have no qualms about bring the tooth count up on the rear cog, 15t, really? Another shocker was the count on spokes. Did not consider that 28 was going to be the spoke number for both wheels. Complicating a rim upgrade down the line maybe.
Bravo everyone!
i certainly have no qualms about bring the tooth count up on the rear cog, 15t, really? Another shocker was the count on spokes. Did not consider that 28 was going to be the spoke number for both wheels. Complicating a rim upgrade down the line maybe.
03-30-19 | 11:20 AM
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And this is a GREAT response! These twenty's are looking good!!
04-29-19 | 07:42 PM
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04-29-19 | 07:51 PM
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two good questions that I have not yet begun to explore. Actually there are too many variables to give just one answer to each.
05-15-19 | 10:13 PM
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Bikes: 2011 BMC Race Machine / 2012 BMC Road Machine / Trek 2300 / '90's Merlin/ '70's Raleigh 20/ Ti-'swift' folder / Erickson w/S&S couplers
In stock configuration a Folding Twenty is pretty heavy.
Great bikes though, once you have it set up how you like it.
Mine has zero original parts.
bottom bracket: Shimano axel w/ Phil wood cups
crank and brakes: mostly Campagnolo (rear caliper is Super Record, front is Dia Compe.)
Aluminum seat post and other assorted left over parts..ahead-set MTB stem etc.
451 rims w/ Schwalbe Durano tires..
53 x 14 ..if I remember correctly, Single speed.
Can break the whole thing down ..or build it up...to fit in a 29" suitcase, in 20 minutes with just a few tools.
1. Pedals & Cranks come off
2. remove wheels
3. seat post ( reflector helps keep the seat post heigh constant when re-installing, otherwise use a sharpie to make a line here)
4. bars/stem
5. frame of course separates, now with a single allen bolt.
Have ridden in Seoul, London, Paris, Munich, Zurich & various towns near these cities,
Travel now means I deciding between this Folding 20 or the Ti-Swift depending on the destination etc.
Folding 20 is perfect if the destination requires a 'lock-up' bike,
it's 'cosmetically challenged' and is pretty safe to lock-up, in say, Paris or London or NYC
all depends on the type of travel I am doing, where I am headed - whether it's for work / commuting or pleasure / distance riding.
Folding 20 has been great !
Seen here: shuttling about out near the boat / beach with visits to the hardware store and supermarket.
Great bikes though, once you have it set up how you like it.
Mine has zero original parts.
bottom bracket: Shimano axel w/ Phil wood cups
crank and brakes: mostly Campagnolo (rear caliper is Super Record, front is Dia Compe.)
Aluminum seat post and other assorted left over parts..ahead-set MTB stem etc.
451 rims w/ Schwalbe Durano tires..
53 x 14 ..if I remember correctly, Single speed.
Can break the whole thing down ..or build it up...to fit in a 29" suitcase, in 20 minutes with just a few tools.
1. Pedals & Cranks come off
2. remove wheels
3. seat post ( reflector helps keep the seat post heigh constant when re-installing, otherwise use a sharpie to make a line here)
4. bars/stem
5. frame of course separates, now with a single allen bolt.
Have ridden in Seoul, London, Paris, Munich, Zurich & various towns near these cities,
Travel now means I deciding between this Folding 20 or the Ti-Swift depending on the destination etc.
Folding 20 is perfect if the destination requires a 'lock-up' bike,
it's 'cosmetically challenged' and is pretty safe to lock-up, in say, Paris or London or NYC
all depends on the type of travel I am doing, where I am headed - whether it's for work / commuting or pleasure / distance riding.
Folding 20 has been great !
Seen here: shuttling about out near the boat / beach with visits to the hardware store and supermarket.
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Erikson w/C&C couplers / Trek's: 2300, 1200, 990 / Jamis 'Sputnik' / Santana Tandem: Full Campy!
BMC Race Machine / BMC Team Machine / Rossin Record / 80's Pinarello Traviso / Merlin MTB / Raleigh "Folding 20" / Ti-Swift (!)
Erikson w/C&C couplers / Trek's: 2300, 1200, 990 / Jamis 'Sputnik' / Santana Tandem: Full Campy!
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05-29-19 | 05:41 PM
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Nothing to float dollar signs around but these Twenties have a solid fan club. Most come out of the workshop completely changed but some are kept relatively intact. They are nice simple riders and hold their charm well.
05-30-19 | 01:37 PM
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interesting-
I wonder if I can post pictures yet;
I think I've got a peach of a twenty, as it happens
(unless I'm in a complete fantasy world about what it is!)
In fact; perhaps I am- as my one doesn't fold! I was lead to believe at one point this might have been a 'Gemini 20'
It doesn't have these crazy tyres on any more; this is a legacy pic from the day I got it a couple of years ago...
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05-30-19 | 02:09 PM
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^^ It’s a peach for Sure! Looks quite nice with that colour. I see lugs! Don’t think this is a Raleigh and not a folder but still the same basic design. I bet it rides just as nice. If this is a legacy pic, do you have a current image?
05-30-19 | 02:15 PM
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oh- sorry- apologies for photobombing the thread with irrelevance-
thankyou for your optimism '3speed
I 'understood' it to be a 'Raleigh Gemini 20' made for UK retail-chain Halfords, and badged as a 'Halfords-20'
No- sorry; as i sit at my desk at work at 21:15; I don't have another picture! But I'll get one this weekend..
Thankyou for your interest
- actually as it happens (for what it's worth!) I do have a detail of the rear brake lever (which I took when I 1st saw the bike) before I owned it