Bike from my teenage years, what is it?

[Xipe Totec]

It's a green one.

Easy.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

With the brake lever configuration reversed (right = rear) was it an import or did someone mix them up?

 

[southcoast]

Puch?

 

[PaulSB]

Raleigh Carlton Competition, 231/2

Black and white cable outers!

Thank you. Not sure if you're correct about the picture but more importantly you've helped me remember the bike I had 43 years ago in York.

I've been wracking my brains for weeks trying to remember. It was a beautiful silvery green. When I was skint I sold it to a guy who wanted to take up cycling. £50. Still regret that now and have never got rid of a bike since.

 

[newts]

Can any CC'ers help indentify the bike pictured circa 1979?
It's a limited view,

Puch?

Puch rings a bell, would that account for the reversed brakes?

 

[southcoast]

Puch rings a bell, would that account for the reversed brakes?

Oh I thought this was a quiz and you knew what the bike was. Lol
The bike looks a bit like a PUCH Alpine of similar model to me.
The standard setup for the UK is the front brake on the right. It’s the opposite in many other countries.
Although i know some people who prefer a right hand rear brake and set their bikes up that way In the UK.

 

[newts]

Oh I thought this was a quiz and you knew what the bike was. Lol
The bike looks a bit like a PUCH Alpine of similar model to me.
The standard setup for the UK is the front brake on the right. It’s the opposite in many other countries.
Although i know some people who prefer a right hand rear brake and set their bikes up that way In the UK.

I'd love to find what make/model it was. I've since checked & that's the only picture I have of the bike. I put cowhorn handlebars on soon after this, rode it for a couple of years until I got a moped. It was riiden to the pub one Sunday lunchtime circa 1982, I got lashed & the bike was put in an adjacent shed for safe keeping. I moved away got married had a family etc. Around 2005 I bumped into a former employee of the pub who told me the bike was thrown out when the pub/hotel was closed down & cleared in 2002.

 

[southcoast]

I'd love to find what make/model it was. I've since checked & that's the only picture I have of the bike. I put cowhorn handlebars on soon after this, rode it for a couple of years until I got a moped. It was riiden to the pub one Sunday lunchtime circa 1982, I got lashed & the bike was put in an adjacent shed for safe keeping. I moved away got married had a family etc. Around 2005 I bumped into a former employee of the pub who told me the bike was thrown out when the pub/hotel was closed down & cleared in 2002.

Do a internet search for Puch Alpine and see if it looks familiar?
What moped did you have?

 

[newts]

Do a internet search for Puch Alpine and see if it looks familiar?
What moped did you have?

Nothing comes up in green on a search although stem & lugs appear similar.
I had a purple FS1E 👍

 

[Gillstay]

Ha, I guessed Hillman hunter, but hopeless on the bike. Aside from t does look English with that seat bolt and the bit of front brake poking up.

 

[Deleted User]

I had a purple FS1E 👍

Bet you wish you still had that, seen the prices?

 

[Drago]

Pretty sure its a Grifter.