Interesting story about the Raleigh Roadster the Sohrab is a copy of.
Major HW Tilman, one of the most famous explorers and mountaineers of the 20th Century, in September 1933, rode one such black heavy Raleigh Roadster, which he had bought for £6 from Kampala, across Africa, from East to West, sleeping rough, living off baking banana's, potatoes and paw-paw's, for 2 months.
The bike's durability was proven by the fact that over 40 years later it had still not rusted away, even in the Welsh rains, and was still being regularly ridden from Bodowen, his house on the Mawddach Estuary into Barmouth to collect his provisions, until at least 1977 when Tilman was lost at sea and never seen again.
I wonder if his Raleigh still survives?