For Sale Ti Raleigh 753 now half price £1250

[marshalllucky]

Just seen this, a massive saving as they`re clearly not selling many at list price ??

 

[pigman]

It seems they did a bad job turning these out and joe public has got wind of it so kept his money firmly locked in his wallet.

 

[Nob]

There an abomination TBH, everything is wrong with them & an insult to the true SBDU 753 frame… I have one of each & there’s just no comparison…..I sadly have one of these anniversary framesets & im just building it as a commuter bike slowly single chainring set up….I had to get the headset reamed & faced….it was truly undersized, BB tapped & faced & even the seat tube reamed as was not done properly…..

 

[chickendrumsticks]

Forgive my ignorance but who actually makes these "replicas"?

 

[Nob]

Forgive my ignorance but who actually makes these "replicas"?

No idea of the company but They are manufactured in Taiwan…..apparently but seemingly no proper QA/QC is being carried out but anyone remotely connected directly with Raleigh……

 

[argonsixar]

Its actually quite a good deal at that price though !

 

[KermitGKona88]

Kick in the cod piece to those who did pay the full price...

 

[peetee]

Kick in the cod piece to those who did pay the full price...

We call them ‘padded cycling shorts’ in the trade but, ha-ha, yes they do look similar.
Don’t worry, you’ll pick up the lingo soon enough.

 

[vcballbat]

An absolute bargain when you consider that they only made 200 complete bikes in five sizes so I'm guessing that's just 40 bikes in each size worldwide. There's a couple of new frames on eBay for £800 so you could sell the new parts and have a frame for much less. By all accounts those who own and have ridden one absolutely love it and come highly recommended, they actually ride better than the original..!..Mmmm should I treat myself for Christmas..

 

[peetee]

I have no doubt they are probably good bikes but but Raleigh were inviting criticism by dressing them up as replicas. That said, for every one of us that see a fail there are, undoubtedly, 100’s that remember the look, had the cheaper replica back in the day and see a very desirable product.