Originally Posted by
gugie
It LOOKS like essentially new condition!
I got my International from a fellow who had bought a bunch of bikes from a bike shop that was going out of business. The interesting thing is that the bike were still in their boxes. He needed to raise a bit of cash, so he sold a handful of those bikes, and my International was one of them. As a result, somewhere around 1999, I bought a NIB 1974 Raleigh International! Very cool! Everything was still in good shape, despite sitting around for a quarter century.
The bike has been ridden mostly on sunny days in good conditions. No need to subject it to harsh conditions. It does fine on the road.. no problem keeping up with friends on their modern bikes, although the 5 speed freewheel is a bit limiting (a 6 speed would be better).
Steve