Raleigh Technium.

[Cycleops]

Saw this today at a roadside bike shop. Never seen or heard of the model before but it a Raleigh USA.
Aluminium according to the frame sticker but very heavy. In incredible condition for its age which must be around thirty years. Looks almost unused.
The guy wanted £80 for it. My size too.
Worth a punt?

 

[classic33]

At that price, if it's your size range, get it.

Release Year: 1989
Last Year Released: 1995
Weight: 29 - 31lbs

 

[biggs682]

That does look clean indeed

 

[Paulus]

Looks like a nice bike.
At a glance it seems to be similar dimensions and angles to the Raleigh Pursuit I had twenty years back.

 

[T4tomo]

Looks to have a short wheelbase typical of a timetrial bike but might just be off camera angle

Is it Alu tubes bonded with steel lugs? If so could be US sister of the dyna-tech. There were Alu and titanium versions of those.

 

[I like Skol]

Really doesn't look like aluminium to eyes?

 

[Cycleops]

At first I thought it couldn’t be aluminium due to the small diameter tubing, like a steel bike. There are what look to be lugs but are almost flush with the tubing, very odd. It real is quite heavy, what you might expect a steel frame bike to weigh. Could be bonded?
Could it be the tubes are almost solid? The rear stays almost certainly are.

 

[biggs682]

If I remember technium similar to the Dyna tech range that the UK had so steel tubes glued into alloy lugs

 

[Cycleops]

I'll try to go back and get a pic of the lugs. Interesting to see internal cabling to the back brake. Could this have been a first?
Groupo is 6 speed Suntour with a freewheel.

 

[T4tomo]

Could this have been a first?

No, pretty sure colnago were doing that in the 70's and probably weren't the first

 

[AndyRM]

For £80 I'd go for that. Lovely looking bike.

 

[DCBassman]

Take a magnet and find out what bits are what.

 

[Cycleops]

That's exactly what I was thinking DC. Just out of interest like.

 

[Smokin Joe]

29-31 lbs seems bloody heavy for an aluminium framed mbike with decent kit.

In fact it puts it in the BSO category.

 

[PedalPedantic]

It is a 1989 Raleigh USA Technium Pre. These had 6061-T8 Aluminum maintubes. Everything else, including front fork and head-tube, was Tange chrome-moiy. The steel lugs are thermal-bonded, but the system uses three securing mechanisms 1.) the flux 2.) Lugs are heated and then tubing inserted, so the lugs fasten the tubes 3.) a lock-ring on the lug that the tubing snaps into.
I have the same bike, but have up-graded all of the components, including a Kinesis aluminum fork. The bike weighs 20 lbs. It has been my long-distance bike for many years and I love it.
the only problem with it is the Accushift system goes out of whack about every 200 miles. I got sick of this and went back to friction.
I really can not understand how you came to the assessment that the bike in your post is "heavy".