Restoration Project B. 1978 Royal Enfield

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soundslikeraine

New Member
So after my normal bike got trashed and I chickened out of restoring my raleigh i needed a bike, so my mum lent me her 1980s raleigh cameo and i became hooked on 3 speeds. so i took a chance and bid on a Royal Enfield bike on ebay and won.

The Sturmey Archer hub makes it 1978 and other than the fact its blue and has a bell on it with Dougal from the Magic Roundabout I cant really tell you much more about her. after a clean up and air in the tyres its pretty perfect really. i need to at some point replace the springs on the calipers but it runs nicely. my plan is to restore it properly once ive finished with 'cinders' my raleigh restoration.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26749675@N07/sets/72157632845446189/
( Ive not worked out how to post pictures here yet - so you can find photos here)

If anyone has any clues on the model or anything with this bike I would be most grateful. there are some degraded decals on it that I cant make out!.
 

tyred

Legendary Member
Location
Ireland
I thought the bicycle section of RE folded in around 1970.

Presumeably someone else owned the rights to the name. Raleigh?
 
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