Chiming in to address one last thing issue regarding this bike - particularly from the UK posters in Neil's videos:
If you have no other evidence to prove that Maxway deliberately delivered a substandard product to Raleigh against their wishes,
lay off the ethnocentrism.
In this day and age, all product development with a remote supplier involves test samples that are used to rectify errors and faults.
It is reasonable to assume that Raleigh UK provided the specifications regarding the geometry, accessories, paint job, fork/dropout ends, and decals.
It is reasonable to assume that Maxway provided "test shots" (samples) of the frames prior to production.
It is reasonable to assume that at a certain point, a test shot was approved by Raleigh UK, and that the final production bicycle is a duplicate of that test shot.
As such, it is
not reasonable to assume that Maxway or "those Taiwanese" did anything wrong by their own doing.
Bashing Maxway into the wall without fact just betrays blind nationalism and a fair bit of ignorance.
It also doesn't take into account that a UK-based builder might have been asked to produce the bike to the
exact same specifications as Maxway. Had they done so, I'm sure they would have taken the undeserving piss for it too and unable to comment thanks to a non-disclosure agreement (just like
how Detroit Bikes is getting undeserved crap for producing Pacific's limited-edition Schwinn Collegiate).
For that matter, Maxway might have even built that 2011 Raleigh International shown above. I can't verify it though, so the point is moot. Still, it's probably one of the greatest mass-production KOF frames ever made; definitely worthy of sitting in any collection side-by-side with it's 1970's brethren.
/rant
-Kurt