More Spring Cleaning

[SirMike1983]

A Columbus Day ride on my Raleigh Twenty:

 

[SirMike1983]

Nice weather this afternoon after a cloudy morning. Warm weather so far this fall, after a chilly August.

 

[SirMike1983]

Raleigh Sprite 5-speed - nice afternoon for a ride.

 

[bikepaulie]

A little Twenty fiddling with the headset, particularly the plastic collar unit. It's in better shape than I had feared - perfectly workable still. The brakes needed some tweaks, and we're pretty much done now. Then I did a little clean up and took a picture.

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Nice tires! Love the seat bag. I replaced my headset with a properly sized AHead set, http://www.aheadset.com/, and have loved it. Thanks for posting!

 

[SirMike1983]

A chilly November 11 - Raleigh export model DL-1.

 

[SirMike1983]

Some more fiddling with the wiring paths and lowered the handlebars a bit. Fun bike - the rod brake roadster is its own animal in the bike world. I normally like the bars pretty high, but these export model bars are quite narrow and come back quite a bit - needed to lower them some.

 

[bikemonkey]

Some more fiddling with the wiring paths and lowered the handlebars a bit. Fun bike - the rod brake roadster is its own animal in the bike world. I normally like the bars pretty high, but these export model bars are quite narrow and come back quite a bit - needed to lower them some.

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Sir, you have a most admirable stable of British steel!

 

[SirMike1983]

A couple more from the past weekend - a little tweaking of cable housing/routing. Fun bike, and goes smoothly over rough road.

 

[SirMike1983]

Out and about on the Raleigh Twenty - it's a fun little bike, and it's also a great place to start if you want to mess around with an old folder bike. It's also a great bike to expand to if you're already a collector of vintage Raleighs and want something "a little different" from the common Sports or DL-1.

https://bikeshedva.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-shorter-days-of-year-raleigh-twenty.html

 

[GTs58]