Raleigh steel frames any good for cycle touring bike?

[albal]

My 1989 Raleigh mirage. Yes it's on the large size at 23". I,m 5-8. Prevents heel rub on panniers tho. Lacks braze ons- no longer a big deal with so much on the market these days to attach stuff.
It weighs a ton tho. Still it got me across USA twice, round Britain and many many more tours.
It will out live me.

 

[Blue Hills]

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My 1989 Raleigh mirage. Yes it's on the large size at 23". I,m 5-8. Prevents heel rub on panniers tho. Lacks braze ons- no longer a big deal with so much on the market these days to attach stuff.
It weighs a ton tho. Still it got me across USA twice, round Britain and many many more tours.
It will out live me.

No problems with standover?

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

No problems with standover?

All things being equal, the standover height of a frame with slack geometry is less than a frame of the same nominal size but steep angles. On a conventional men's frame, the seat tube is the hypotenuse, the standover height is the base side plus the BB vertical height.
Those Raleigh welded MTB frames have head and seat angles of 70 degrees!

 

[albal]

No problems with standover?

Nope