Raleigh Serial Number deciphering

[chrisbro77]

Hi, I've just picked up an old Raleigh racer I think from the early 80's.

The very rough paint is in the team colours of red with black head tube but it has no decals to identify it by, when I got home I took a picture of the serial number on the bottom of the bottom bracket



I think at most it'll be a EUROPA or an ACE..... of what i've found out R is Canada, G is May and 2 is 1982. it would be nice to find out what model it exactly is but if i can't i'll do a team replica...

Any help would be grateful.

cheers
chris

 

[The History Man]

That's a post code?

6 begonia close Basingstoke

 

[chrisbro77]

Re:

mmmmm now looking at it.... seems very neat could well be a 90's police stamp...

will have to look over the bike for any other numbers... cheers

 

[Midlife]

The plate for a kickstand wasn't a consistent Raleigh feature ontheir road frames. The number might be hidden under the seat tube beneath the seat bolt. Any other pictures of the frame itself?

Shaun

 

[chrisbro77]

Will get more photos tomorrow, just had a quick look out in the garage for numbers by the top of the seat tube and I saw NK20-23737.

So Nottingham July 1982 I think....

is there anyway of finding out what the 23737 means ?

 

[Midlife]

The last digits of the raleigh standard numbering system were simply the unique serial numbers..........kept the bean counters happy

Shaun

 

[chrisbro77]

Re:

Just taken a few pictures....

















it's a 12 speed, I think a touring judging by the forks. But I haven't seen one with those black plastic cable clips on the top tube.

chris

 

[rickangus]

Resurrecting an old thread here...

I've recently acquired a Raleigh Royal. Based on the spec and frame colour I'm pretty sure it's a 1989 model. FWIW, the bike is black with a silver head tube and fitted with an Exage Biopace triple at the front. The rear wheel and cassette is not original so no point listing that.

Anyway, I thought I understood the Raleigh S/N convention but not with this bike as the no. is B25023. Can anybody enlighten me on how to interpret those numbers please.

 

[Stump28]

Re:

Have you tried this site? Maybe for models earlier than yours though

http://www.kurtkaminer.com/TH_raleigh_serials.html

 

[rickangus]

Thanks, yes I have seen it before and it was that which gave me an understanding of the Raleigh convention up until a date shortly before I believe my bike was made!

I'm struggling to find anything covering a later period...