Help identifying an old bike - possibly Raleigh Pro?

[roadking]

True rogerrabbit.......I just looked at the seat cluster. LOL

Looks more like a holdsworth..

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Shaun

An easy conclusion.

If it were a Holdsworth there would be holes for the badge (later Holdsworths did not have a badge then the seat cluster contradicts and the frame number is not quite right)...I had considered it might be a Carlton built frameset - but then the seat cluster is too wrapped over!

Are the frame and steerer tube numbers the same?

Rk.

 

[Midlife]

I thought about a Carlton as they were fond of rear brake bridges for centre pull but they had a rounded wrap over rather than being flattened..... At that time they would likely have used Crespera lugs too.

Might never know

Shaun

 

[roadking]

I thought about a Carlton as they were fond of rear brake bridges for centre pull but they had a rounded wrap over rather than being flattened..... At that time they would likely have used Crespera lugs too. Might never know Shaun

Yes they were but not on all frames - Carlton did build bespoke too. I have seen Carltons with the flatter wrapover (rather than the round type everyone thinks is a Carlton trademark - which it is) and they are generally on Carlton built Raleighs built around the first half of the 1970s.

I have a bespoke Carlton frameset that has both Zeus dropouts and Bocama lugs - folk (on RB) would think it was not a Carlton, I bought it from the original owner and have the invoice and therefore the provenance (he was also living in Worksop at the time).

The obvious answer is not always the correct one

Roadking.