It’s a Sakae SXI guess the white chain set and kit us RX100? Not too shabby![]()
I very much doubt it's pre 1990, given the forks. Raleigh were not early adopters of unicrown forks on lugged & brazed frames. They were commonly found on Raleigh MTB's from the late 80's, but the road frames tended to stick with conventional brazed forks. Even the early Raleigh hybrids (like my 531 framed Gemini 18 from 1988), with MTB-derived triple chainring indexed gearing, were still being built with conventional forks up until 1990. There was one Raleigh road model, which escapes me but had flashy gold components, which was built with both conventional then later, unicrown forks. Whatever timeline that model spanned was the crossover for hi-tensile and 501 frames adopting unicrowns. I would guess 1991 for road frames, the year before for hybrids.I did a bit more research and it looks like it dates from around 1985.
I'll stick my oar in at late '80s / early '90s. I have a '91 German catalogue and all the European "cooking" 18-23 road models have Unicrown forks with lugged frames. I also have a '90 lightweight catalogue that shows the cheapest model (Vitesse) with unicrown forks combined with a 531 lugged frame, while the higher-end models still have crowned forks. The '85 road bike catalogue shows crowned forks on even the cheapest models, while my '87 Routier (a cheap model) also has crowned forks. Unfortunately I don't have any catalogues for the '86-89 period.I very much doubt it's pre 1990, given the forks. Raleigh were not early adopters of unicrown forks on lugged & brazed frames. They were commonly found on Raleigh MTB's from the late 80's, but the road frames tended to stick with conventional brazed forks. Even the early Raleigh hybrids (like my 531 framed Gemini 18 from 1988), with MTB-derived triple chainring indexed gearing, were still being built with conventional forks up until 1990. There was one Raleigh road model, which escapes me but had flashy gold components, which was built with both conventional then later, unicrown forks. Whatever timeline that model spanned was the crossover for hi-tensile and 501 frames adopting unicrowns. I would guess 1991 for road frames, the year before for hybrids.