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The Super Tourer is Carlton-built (Worksop factory)...has butted 531 tubes and forks (edited as I've now been schooled)...They were very highly spec'ed for a upright bike - probably 30 or 40 years too early for a bike like this.
The Super Tourer is Carlton-built (Worksop factory)...has butted 531 tubes and forks - the same frame as the "Competition GS" if you want to take a look at old catalogs. They were very highly spec'ed for a upright bike - probably 30 or 40 years too early for a bike like this.
whilst am certainly not in the same league with other thread participants on Sir Wally savvy doona see how the frame of the subject machine could be the same as that of the Raleigh Competition GS model.
first there is a temporal contradiction. slowride has determined the cycle being discussed to date from the 1974-75 time while the Competition GS model did not launch until the 1977 model year.
here is the manufacturer's catalogue page for the Competition GS model of 1977 -
note that frame is constructed with BOCAMA 16/I pattern lugs rather than BOCAMA Professional pattern lugs. note that dropouts are Campag rather than Huret. note that since brakes are sidepull there is no centrepull bridge present on the seat stays. note that it is constructed for 700 size wheels rather than 27" & has 52mm brake centres. note that chainstays are rapier pattern (undimpled) while those of the Super Tourer are dimpled.
even if we compare the frame of the subject bicycle to that of the contemporaneous Competition Mk.II model there are differences. here is the manufacturer's catalogue page for the Competition Mk.II model of 1974 -
note that lug pattern is Capella rather than BOCAMA Professional. note that fork crown is Vagner No. 12 rather than Harrington full sloping. note that chainstays are rapier pattern without dimples while those of Super Tourer are dimpled.
in short the Super Tourer frame is not "the same frame as"
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