Best bike ever!

[bikeworkshop]

@Totoro fill your boots mate. Various colours and marks.

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The only similarities between the Harrier and the Commando are weight and stopping distance

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Where does the Raleigh Chipper fit in? (my first wings)

Budgie, Tomahawk, Chipper, Chopper. Proving tricky for decent pictures.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I bought a Raleigh Grand Prix with my paper route money in 1977 or thereabouts. It was a glorious glossy black with gold highlights. It was stolen out of a friends backyard about a year later. I was gutted.

Didn't have a proper bike to replace it until I went to university in the mid 80's.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vintage_bicycles/comments/pjtoxo/1979_raleigh_grand_prix_10_speed_made_in_england

Looked like this which is stated to be a 1979 edition.

What a fantastic thread. Raleigh was so big in North America that they made bikes here in Canada for a couple of decades. The factory was just down the highway from me.

"The market was so strong that in 1973, Raleigh Canada stopped importing the bikes from Britain and opened a manufacturing plant in Canada, in Waterloo, Que.
But by the mid-’80s, intense competition from Japanese and European brands had all but squeezed Raleigh out of the higher end of the market."

https://www.thestar.com/business/th...cle_bb433cd4-e6a9-5f56-8072-e1793b3bdca5.html

I know this is a road bike thread, but shortly before the factory closed, they snuck out a really good mtb that I want to find. There was a version of the Serengetti that was made in Canada using Tange Infinity tubes.

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/my-early-1990s-raleigh-serengeti.384034/

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

What a fantastic thread. Raleigh was so big in North America that they made bikes here in Canada for a couple of decades. The factory was just down the highway from me.

"The market was so strong that in 1973, Raleigh Canada stopped importing the bikes from Britain and opened a manufacturing plant in Canada, in Waterloo, Que.
But by the mid-’80s, intense competition from Japanese and European brands had all but squeezed Raleigh out of the higher end of the market."

https://www.thestar.com/business/th...cle_bb433cd4-e6a9-5f56-8072-e1793b3bdca5.html

I know this is a road bike thread, but shortly before the factory closed, they snuck out a really good mtb that I want to find. There was a version of the Serengetti that was made in Canada using Tange Infinity tubes.
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https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/my-early-1990s-raleigh-serengeti.384034/

Thats a nice bike with a cool name. Its a bike thread Matti, I never differentiate

 

[ferrus]

Budgie, Tomahawk, Chipper, Chopper. Proving tricky for decent pictures.

What about the Todger?

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

What about the Todger?

Easy tiger the thread will disappear

 

[ferrus]

Oh yeah sorry. I forgot old ladies and babies might be reading

 

[ferrus]

Interesting thing pointed out by Tim @27motorhead - The front half of a Grifter is basically a Chopper upside down!

 

[bikeworkshop]

Interesting thing pointed out by Tim @27motorhead - The front half of a Grifter is basically a Chopper upside down!

And the raleigh bomber was an adaptation of the post office frame.

Of course they wouldn't call it that now, would they

 

[LondonClassic]

I'd forgotton about the Commando completely. It looks like a Raleigh Twenty frame with the bracing removed from the BB to downtube. If so, more ingenious cost cutting.