Yeah there's a link to Raleigh. Radiation cookers was bought out by Ti Tube Investments in 1967 and the Radiation name was dropped, not a good selling point having Radiation in the home during a cold warand became New World cookers the name Radiation gave their range of cookers probably because of the American styling. The Chairman and Managing Director of Ti Raleigh from 1974-81 Ian Phillips was previously a Managing Director at New World as his Cambridge degree was in heating engineering and was offered the position at Raleigh in 74 moving his family up north to the Nottingham area. Anyway cut a long story I've ended up with Ian Phillips bike
It's a small world, was it by coincidence or are you a Raleigh man through and through. I would love an SBDU frame. How do you find riding a Reynolds 753 frame? Would you say SBDU built some of the best frames in the UK? Or there are equally good frames made by others out there? Just wondered...Yeah there's a link to Raleigh. Radiation cookers was bought out by Ti Tube Investments in 1967 and the Radiation name was dropped, not a good selling point having Radiation in the home during a cold warand became New World cookers the name Radiation gave their range of cookers probably because of the American styling. The Chairman and Managing Director of Ti Raleigh from 1974-81 Ian Phillips was previously a Managing Director at New World as his Cambridge degree was in heating engineering and was offered the position at Raleigh in 74 moving his family up north to the Nottingham area. Anyway cut a long story I've ended up with Ian Phillips bike
View attachment 816875Raleigh Dynaflite SBDU 753.... 'Manager Special'
A Raleigh SBDU frame popped up on eBay last week and caught my attention. It was listed as an SBDU Dynaflite frame and fork only though a Campagnolo chainset and Super Record headset were included. What really intrigued me was the final photo on the listing showing it built as a complete bike...www.retrobike.co.uk