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I have a complete bike for sale here (TI Raleigh road bike), which has been resprayed (by previous owner). I've traced it back to 3/1973 so Nottingham factory. If I was to break it up and sold the frame on its own, any idea what a reasonable asking price would be?

thanks

Martin

'TI-Raleigh road bike' could mean almost anything from PG carbon steel to a full race spec team replica.

The lesser ones are not worth that much but they do appear to be worth a little more than those without the same paint job.

cheers

Are you sure it's 531?

A mate of mike has a Raleigh team Banana road bike fro that vintage.
It's made of gas pipe.

yes and yes

Sorry, I was editing as you posted!
You said originally it was a complete bike ....... so therefore you have the fork.

If the bike is in good condition, no doubt you could sell it ok.
I've said a few times on here that the parts are worth more than the whole, so my advice is to pull it apart and sell the bits.

Keep the fork on the frame with the headset. 531 frame/fork combos are quite sought-after.

Can't help you with prices though. Pick a figure, and see if someone goes for it. See what goes on ebay and at what price.

this bike? as was;



as is now

http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=83473

Raleigh made dozens of (superficially) very similar looking frames. If you are selling it as a ' 1973 531 frame' then you need to be absolutely sure that it is that and not something else.

If you have known original parts the weinmann calipers and suntour mechs both have clear date marks on them; simple numbers in the case of thebrakes, a two-digit letter code in the case of the mechs. The weinmann calipers with the plastic centre caps didn't appear until the late 1970s at the earliest.

The lesser models typically had some or all of the following features;

- plain unfiled lugs
- a seat pin closer to 25.4mm than 27.2mm in size
- no wheel adjusters
- pressed steel (rather than forged) dropouts of uniform thickness
- crimped seat stay top eyes
-no bottle braze ons

The top models typically had some or all of the following features;

-campag (or similar) forged dropouts with threaded adjusters at the rear
- neatly brazed lugs with thin walls
- 27.0 (if a metric tubeset was used) or 27.2mm seat pins
- shot in stays or (more commonly) brazed in top eyes with a simple flat on them

with many intermediate permutations, varying with year.

BTW the TI-Raleigh team did not exist before 1974.

hth

cheers

Wouldn't the best bikes (the true team replicas) have had Campagnolo equipment?

Mick F wrote:Are you sure it's 531?

A mate of mike has a Raleigh team Banana road bike fro that vintage.
It's made of gas pipe.

I was in a hurry here, and typos abound!
Sorry.

The main issue that Brucey is getting at, is that there are Raleigh frames, and there are Raleigh frames.
My mate's frame is gas pipe, and there is no Campag or forged dropouts anywhere near it.

I used to have a 531 team pro, this is a gas pipe mass market one. You can tell by the lugs and the drop outs. A team rep would definitely have campag ends. As a gas pipe bike probably worth 100-130.

Like the previous post said, there are Raleighs and then there are Raleighs....

flog it on Retrobike

Your local gumtree is probably the best bet, no postage problems.