Any idea what this is?

[stalagmike]

Raleigh with "Ranger" stickers, but can't find anything online about them. Wondering if the bend in the top tube meant to be there?

 

[midlife]

Yep, bend is meant to be there, .

 

[classic33]

Frame number on the seat post clamp, left-hand side?

https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/...lease-help-me-identify-this-awesome-old-frame

 

[Chris S]

Wondering if the bend in the top tube meant to be there?

Known as camel backs.

 

[midlife]

Colt / Space Rider?

 

[classic33]

Colt / Space Rider?

I'd say Colt.

 

[Paulus]

As above, another vote for a Colt
I believe, although I await to be told differently that they were made for the American market.

 

[stalagmike]

I think there is a serial number there but hard to see due to rust/paint. If it is a Colt, is it worth saving? It doesn't look that special to me but I'm fairly new to this kind of thing.

 

[classic33]

From the 1972 Raleigh(USA) catalogue.

The frame number would help date it. As would the number from the rear hub.

I'd say it's worth saving, but that'll take time, more than money spent on it.

 

[stalagmike]

Can't make out the frame number but the hub looks like it has a '59' on it.

 

[classic33]

Can't make out the frame number but the hub looks like it has a '59' on it.

Year of manufacture. Possible the bike may be from the same year, more likely the following.

And the Raleigh(USA) catalogue for 1962 has this in it

 

[stalagmike]

This is great info. Is part of a 'barn find' on my brother in law's small holding. Also found a BSA twenty and another Raleigh that we can't actually get at yet! It's stuck in a corner with a table and some box steel balanced above it.