Raleigh Team Banana
dgibby
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Found an old Raleigh team Banana bike in my dad's shed. Think it's late 1980's and not been used since but has been kept in good storage. Anyone got one of these still? Don't need another bike but have been thinking it could be brought back to life with all of my not being used SORA/TIAGRA bits that I have lying around in my garage and use it for a "hack" bike. Would like to know if anyone has such a bike in use. If I remember right, I did a Duathlon a while back and someone was competing on one but I didn't get a chance to have a proper look...
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i got a team banana falcon
thinking of making it my single speed commute bike
might be worth putting this in Special interests
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My son had a Raleigh banana bike but it may not be the same as yours ... this was a black frame (nothing fancy) with some yellow on it. Standard 10 (or 12?) spd downtube shift gears, 700C wheels with very narrow tyres (19mm?)and standard side pull brakes by Wenmann(I think).
It did him well.
I think there was a true team replica in 531 db tubing ... my son's was not that one.
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recently did up a reynolds 531 frame with bits left over from upgraded other bike. really nice ride, if you can get yours up and running do so, it'll be worth it.
if i had a better signature, i'd use that insteadriding on my bicycle, i saw a motorcrash…0 -
kncok it into a single speed - how big are the dropouts?
winter: http://tinyurl.com/2xkbbs
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Thanks for the replies chaps. Phil R - sounds just like the one in my dad's shed. Had a look at ebay earlier and found this
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=012
This is what it looks like (though not as shiny and clean)
Will have to check the frame when I see it next but if I remember right it was bought from Halfords (though about œ180 which with inflation would be a fortune now?!) so can't be a 531 right? Or can it? Hmmmmm - making it a fixed could be fun! Join the dark side!?0 -
Does it have "18-23 Controlled Carbon Steel Tubing" on the frame ? If so it's the lower end of the two Banana bikes.
I wouldn't bother changing the gears if the original stuff works ok. Looking at your location I wouldn't change it to single speed either [;)]
Danger ! Men at work0 -
That photo is going to give me nitemares, brought back a long supressed memory of having a job lot of about 3 dozen of those, all 25" frames come into the shop where I worked and having to set them up one afternoon. *shudder*0
