Odd Raleigh serial number
03-08-24, 01:44 PM
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Odd Raleigh serial number
Wednesday I took home an old Raleigh to clean up. After looking at the crumbling paint I decided to do a quick repaint on it. One thing led to another and a few hours later I had stripped all the paint off it. I wrote down the serial number on the bottom bracket and came in to look it up. It doesn't seem to conform to the raleigh numbering convention.
The number clearly stamped on the bottom of the bottom bracket shell is 180349 with the 8 having a flat top. There were some decals on the bike , one stating it was made with Hi tensile tubing but not specifying which. There was a Raleigh decal on the top tube. The head badge was missing.
The bike had fancy lugs on the head tube and the fork has a chrome cap and may be a replacement as the original color was brown metalic . The bike as found was painted beige with no apparent original paint of a different color underneath. The crank is cottered with no markings and a length of 165mm.the chain stays don't appear to have been chromed and the fork probably had short(3") chrome spats.
It probably doesn't matter what the bike was origionally as it was definately a frankenbike when I got it. I'm just curious if anyone can shed any light on the serial number.
On close inspection of the steer tube lugs it looks like the bottom lug is tweeked where the bottom tube enters it. Nothing else about the bike is damaged and the frame tubes are straight / no kinks at the steer tube. Could this just have been shoddy work at the factory?
The number clearly stamped on the bottom of the bottom bracket shell is 180349 with the 8 having a flat top. There were some decals on the bike , one stating it was made with Hi tensile tubing but not specifying which. There was a Raleigh decal on the top tube. The head badge was missing.
The bike had fancy lugs on the head tube and the fork has a chrome cap and may be a replacement as the original color was brown metalic . The bike as found was painted beige with no apparent original paint of a different color underneath. The crank is cottered with no markings and a length of 165mm.the chain stays don't appear to have been chromed and the fork probably had short(3") chrome spats.
It probably doesn't matter what the bike was origionally as it was definately a frankenbike when I got it. I'm just curious if anyone can shed any light on the serial number.
On close inspection of the steer tube lugs it looks like the bottom lug is tweeked where the bottom tube enters it. Nothing else about the bike is damaged and the frame tubes are straight / no kinks at the steer tube. Could this just have been shoddy work at the factory?
03-08-24, 03:26 PM
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Do you have pictures of the frame and the serial number? Raleigh has a long history. About which decade do you think the frame was manufactured.
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