SB9443 Team Owned Raleigh 753 Dyna-Tech Castorama

[bigfatron]

Re: Team Owned Raleigh 753 Dyna-Tech Castorama (almost done)

looks very sweet Maca, but you have your cables twisted at the head tube - rear brake cable passes behind front brake cable.
Very nice to see the brakes set up properly - right hand lever for the rear, n'est pas?!
setting up the cables for Deltas is easy really - do not cut them flush under the clamp, leave 2.5cm (an inch if it's made by Raleigh and not Cyfac!) of cable after the clamp, then apply pliers to bend up vertically in front of the parallelogram and fit the smallest cable end cap you can find to stop the cable ends grinding the inside of the faceplate once re-fitted.
I'm hopeless at pictures on here, so pm me if you want a photo of my Deltas sans faceplate.
I am good at cauliflower cheese though, tomorrow's lunch smells delicious........!
Richie

 

[Mike Muz]

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I'm liking this build Maca

And to think, I'm not even a Campag fan either !

Someone else that has his cables the right way around!

Wait for it! :roll:

 

[Maca]

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Haha, ive only done the cables this way as its a team bike and thats how the team had it .........

In all the pics I could see it looked like the front cable went behind and it seemed to give a smoother run.

I will pm for some pics of the deltas...thanks

To me looks like he has the cables the same as I do, maybe the longer stem made this a better way ?

 

[ibbz]

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Well at least it's a French Raleigh and not a Chinese made one! Joke!
Great looking bike which I've admired again

Quick question - this is made in France and not by Raleigh? But is it exactly the same frame as a non team bike made in Raleigh SPDU? Why didn't Raleigh make it themselves ?

 

[Maca]

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Cheers Ibbz

This particular one isn't one of the French made ones, I believe they only made some of the standard team issue steal framed ones.
This is one of the Raleigh made Dyna-Tech frames so carries the SB frame number as well as the team members number.

It differs from the one that you could buy over counter in geometry, and that the tubes are Reynolds 753.
From what I can find out the team helped Raleigh to develop the Dyna-Techs hence it having Reynolds tubing rather than the Raleigh branded tubing decals found on most Dyna-Techs. Also (I think I'm right in saying) that most of the Castorama colour dyna-tech you could buy over the counter had the single wish bone rear stays while this has the double ones.

This is Fignon on his

 

[Mike Muz]

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I think the cable routing is right mate. All my road bikes are done like this.

 

[dorset boy]

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Loving the build.I have a book on the 1990 season with some pics of Fignon.
Paris Roubaix 1990

Mike.

 

[dorset boy]

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Milan San Remo.

Mike.

 

[bigfatron]

Re: Team Owned Raleigh 753 Dyna-Tech Castorama (almost done)

So this morning I'm telling my ride buddy that Maca has his cables all wrong, I look down past my 135mm ITM stem at the Delta calliper, and blow me, so do I. Which, as you will all know, means it's correct. And a smashing build too.

Idiot comment retracted, rear brake cable does pass in front, and of course left lever is the front brake.......

When will we get the Super U peloton on the road?

Richie

 

[Way2many]

Re: Team Owned Raleigh 753 Dyna-Tech Castorama (almost done)

I have a spare black Regina America FW cover, one with the white lettering nearly gone the other perfect...any use?