Originally Posted by
nlerner
Glad to see you won the Internet today! You might want to work on your attribution, however. That serial # chart looked familiar to me, and I then remembered seeing it on Mark Bulgier’s site:
https://bulgier.net/pics/bike/Catalo...ialNumbers.jpg
There’s no attribution there, but we can ask @
bulgie if he remembers. I vaguely remember Don Gillies was the source but do not know for sure or where he got that info. Clearly, it’s a scanned page from somewhere, hopefully a credible source.
Retro-Raleighs was a website hosted by Ray "Don" Chong. (No, he didn't actually go by Don, that was just me, a riff on Rae Dawn Chong, famous among bikies for her 10-second wheel change in the bike racing move
American Flyers)When Ray didn't want to do a website anymore, I asked if I could host his files, and he sent them to me. Later, Sheldon Brown also got the Retro-Raleighs files and did them up right, adding a lot of extra value in the process. My version is just a list of files to download with no HTML; Sheldon's is the definitive home of Retro-Raleighs. The only reason mine still exists is because I'm a packrat who never throws anything away.
I don't know who/where Ray's sources were for Retro-Raleighs. I lost touch with him, don't have contact info for him anymore. If anyone here knows him, maybe you could ask about the ser.# chart, in case he remembers. Also ask him if he still likes the frame I built for him in about '98. All stainless steel; he named it "Inox". But only report back if the answer is yes he still likes it.
Mark B