Ebay and auction watch: let us know if you see something
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stalagmike
Enormous member
- Location
- Milton Keynes
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/113925020044
Future classic in NOS condition. Got to be worth a go if it's in your area.
Future classic in NOS condition. Got to be worth a go if it's in your area.
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
I think that will sell easily enough
SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
Will be interesting to see what it makes though. It's nice, but the size is going to rule out everyone except those over 6 ft with long legs, and who aren't frightened of big frames because all they've ever ridden is silly shrunken modern ones. I doubt it would even comfortably fit more than 2 or 3 percent of the population, and the standover height is probably going to be about 35 inches!.
southcoast
Über Member
This one looks interesting.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HOUSE-CL...noa=1&pg=2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100623.m-1
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HOUSE-CL...noa=1&pg=2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100623.m-1
IanSmithCSE
Guru
- Location
- Worcester, Worcestershire
Good morning,
I suspect that it will go for quite a lot if two dealers find it and are prepared to hold on to it for a while.
If I needed a bike that size and wanted steel I could easily see myself getting excited and paying something close to £300-£500 for it.
Having said that before writing the cheque I might think 531 main frame tubes only and a 6 speed freewheel aren't I better off with a Specialized Allez (or equivalent)?
Its a lovely blast from the past but coughing up a lot for it once I thought about it, especially as I was quite dismissive of it when it was a current model, only 531 tubes, forks and stays would do me then?
Bye
Ian
I suspect that it will go for quite a lot if two dealers find it and are prepared to hold on to it for a while.
If I needed a bike that size and wanted steel I could easily see myself getting excited and paying something close to £300-£500 for it.
Having said that before writing the cheque I might think 531 main frame tubes only and a 6 speed freewheel aren't I better off with a Specialized Allez (or equivalent)?
Its a lovely blast from the past but coughing up a lot for it once I thought about it, especially as I was quite dismissive of it when it was a current model, only 531 tubes, forks and stays would do me then?
Bye
Ian
buzzy-beans
Über Member
- Location
- Woolsthorpe By Colsterworth
That is exactly the thought that went through my mind when I briefly came back to cycling a couple or so years ago.
For me, I still had fond and vivid memories of my 531 and similar bikes from the early to mid 1960's, some of them that had been specially built for me, but I also wanted to try some of the new offerings from the likes of Specialized etc. and to be honest all the new ones left me feeling totally cold as they didn't have any character as far as I was concerned, and then I saw a post that Mr. Biggs put up about a Shorter Rochford bike he had recently acquired.
I made contact with Martin and went to see him and more importantly the drop dead gorgeous bike and on riding it I was filled with complete and utter jaw dropping joy as it felt totally alive and so completely full of character and so utterly removed from the soulless feel of the new bikes I had tried............ so I bought it, even if the amount I paid was slightly steep!
But, you know what, to this day I don't regret my decision to do so.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
That's a beauty. Shame you'd have to be 7 feet tall to ride it.
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Agreed you'd need to be in a minority of the very tall; the same vendor has a 1982 21" Raleigh Competition which is even better looking (difficult, I know, as the 25" is in near-immaculate state), and towards the opposite end of the height spectrum. BIN price of £695, thobut!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mens-Ret...542788?hash=item1a8603c184:g:fzEAAOSwndFdnNxQ
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
Here's a Roy Thame 21" which looks tidy.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mens-vin...757101?hash=item1a8662942d:g:CRQAAOSwd1tdpImq
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mens-vin...757101?hash=item1a8662942d:g:CRQAAOSwd1tdpImq
southcoast
Über Member
Hasn’t travelled far in the last 40 years from Putney to Richmomd.
Do the Raleigh Competition and the Carlton Pro-Am look like they've repainted?
This Raleigh painted in Banana colours looks like a quality frame a Professional maybe? I wonder what the frame number is... Seller has a host of other lovely bikes including an incredible Roberts
The clover lugs in the 4th picture of this Claud look too nice - more like a Roy Thame?
This Raleigh painted in Banana colours looks like a quality frame a Professional maybe? I wonder what the frame number is... Seller has a host of other lovely bikes including an incredible Roberts
The clover lugs in the 4th picture of this Claud look too nice - more like a Roy Thame?
I hadn't thought of that - just been to my shed to look at my "Competition". Mine also has a "W" code at the start of the serial number, like the one on eBay - Worksop build.
My downtube decal has "Craftsman built by Carlton Cycles Worksop England", not the ".....Raleigh Cycles......." shown on the one for sale - although I am not sure that Raleigh would have been consistent on their labelling.
Also the eBay paint does look a little more metallic than mine - but that could just be photograph effect/ageing.
The Competition for sale does look very good though.
