Old skool! Raleigh pro race. Classic or heap of sh..?

rjsterry

itboffin wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

bails87 wrote:

needing a new, longer (ie, more than 15cm!) seatpost

bails87 wrote:

Halfords also had a £12 27mm seatpost, for some reason, so it's now tall enough for me to ride.

My Banana and Moonio's 'Harry' Mixte both had/have really short seat posts. Maybe Raleigh were running out of seat post material in the 80s?

Both of you are far to young to know back in the day the norm was an almost level seatpost to stem height set up so in most cases 1-3" and larger frames, its only now pros ride the smallest frame they can fit on with 8' of seatpost to make us all feel like bojo bike riders ...baStards! :evil:

That's pretty much how my Giant is set up: 59cm frame and a 2" saddle-to-bars drop, and ditto the mid-'80s BSA 10sp I rode before that, so you can't be *that* old. Unless... oh.

EKE_38BPM

jopari wrote:

So, any idea on age of my Pro-Race?
Seems to be a bit different from the one I had in the '90s.
I'm pretty sure my original one had shimano rear mech, and the shifters were curved plastic too (probably shimano) where as this one is suntour (and original according to the chap in the shop). So I'm guessing it's older model.

Use your Google-fu to find the date of manufacture date from the serial number. The website is called something like vintage Raleigh. Can't be bothered to look right now, but I may later.

rolf_f

Age is in the frame number. It should tell Month and Year on the first two digits irrc.