1987 Raleigh Record Sprint

[MrW]

I have a set of original ones that the repro's were made from

I'll PM you the details

 

[big_dave]

Re:

I had a 1987 Record sprint, I bought it brand new, it cost me £225 if I remember right, I passed it down to my brother, the chainstay snapped in 1992 and the frame was replaced by raleigh.

 

[MrW]

Re: Re:

I had a 1987 Record sprint, I bought it brand new, it cost me £225 if I remember right, I passed it down to my brother, the chainstay snapped in 1992 and the frame was replaced by raleigh.

This one cost me circa £40 from eBay in 2008. The only money I have spent on it was for new decals which were £27. When it's finished (soon hopefully) it will 'owe' me less than £100 (obviously not accounting for the amount of time I have spent on it!)

Ah, the famous 15 year frame and forks guarantee from Raleigh. I went through 4 Pulsar frames in less than 4 years!

Did they replace it with another Record Sprint, or something else?

 

[big_dave]

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it came back as a record sprint that's as much as I remember, my brother had it by then so I never saw much of it by then.

 

[andyj007]

thanks for the heads up on your restoration... looks great..
did you end up building the wheels with the gold spokes?

cheers

aj

 

[MrW]

No, I'm just about to do them with stainless steel spokes, so as to keep it as original as possible

Just need to source a freewheel removal tool for the rear, as I'll do both

If only Raleigh's 'rustless' spokes did what they were supposed to do and not tarnish and rust!

 

[Bats]

Black or silver?

 

[MrW]

Silver I think...

The black ones tend to 'wear' and I don't want to be rebuilding them again!

 

[Bats]

Yeah but the colour scheme! The colour scheme!

I'm slowly banishing all silver from mine.

 

[MrW]

I know, but...

The mech's are silver, the headset is silver, the stem is silver

and it left the factory with silver spokes..

Wanted to try and get a factory type build!