Originally Posted by
T-Mar
Great score! It looks to the 1990 model, as I beileve the 1991 rec'd a triple crankset. I never could get over the fact that the Technium Supercourse was lower in the product line than the Technium Grand Prix. It just seemed unnatural, having sold Raleigh during the early 1970s bicycle boom, when the order of these two models was reversed. Regardless, enjoy your new acquisition.
I don't remember Technium Supercourse and Grand Prix models. Are you thinking of the Raleigh USA steel lugged bikes? (I may be misremembering, or you may be talking about Raleigh Technium models that showed up after I stopped working for a Raleigh dealership.)
If you are talking about the Raleigh USA steel bikes, yes, the reversed hierarchy was strange. Reynolds 531 for the Grand Prix, "Raleigh 555" tubing for the Supercourse, where the earlier Grand Prix had had 2030 steel and the Supercourse had had 531 main tubes.