2000 Raleigh RSP 550 Titanium

[nelincsretromtb]

Afternoon all,

I was recently the highest bidder on this on eBay, as I have been after a Ti frame for a while now.

OK, so it has Orange Vit T decals on but the seller was honest enough to say that he knew it wasn't one but liked the decals (?!), and was a Raleigh Ti frame of some kind.

After much deliberation on the Facebook Group I run, and Steve Perkins being 99% it was a Raleigh, I stuck a bid in.

Im now the owner of a Ti frame, and after it arrived today, and taking a few photos of areas with paint left in them, I'm 99.9% sure its a 2000 RSP 550.

The paint thats left in the head tube and BB housing, do correlate with that model.

Here are a few photos I've taken for now.

 

[Markybeau]

Serial number?

Should start with an L

 

[nelincsretromtb]

Which it does.

 

[Markybeau]

Then it is a 2k RSP 550

Mine is L04102

 

[racer x]

It looks really good as a orange vit t I like it

 

[nelincsretromtb]

Hmm...not for me.

 

[nelincsretromtb]

Well, I spent Thursday evening taking all the Orange decals off the Raleigh frame.

It now looks miles better.

I was holding out for an RSP head badge but none seemed to be out there, so I "Borrowed" one from my RSP 250 frame, as my plan for that wont need it anyway.

Job sorted

I've steadily been collecting some M750 parts for it too, as I'm going to be running a full group set, eventually.

Not a massive update, but some sort of slight progress at least!

 

[Lucidone]

Following - looking forward to this...

 

[nelincsretromtb]

Thanks mate! A bit more to it than my other threads at least!

 

[Lucidone]

Are you keeping the raw ti finish?