Bicycle Makers Raleigh

Raleigh for the Masses: Evolution of a Bicycle Giant

Color lithograph poster of two riders on black Raleigh roadsters against yellow and orange fields, with the heron-head badge and the words Raleigh The All-Steel Bicycle

Raleigh went from a twelve-person workshop on a Nottingham back street to the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world, and from there to a brand owned by a Dutch group under lender control. This is the full arc: Sturmey-Archer and the three-speed empire, the export trade, the Moulton fight, the Chopper, the four-man Ilkeston workshop whose frames won the 1980 Tour de France, and the long unwinding that ended manufacturing in Nottingham.

Raleigh for the Masses: A Timeline of a Bicycle Giant’s Evolution

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Among the most recognized bicycle brands in the world, the Raleigh Cycle Company traces its roots to a twelve-person workshop in Nottingham, England producing three bicycles a week. This timeline follows its rise to the largest bicycle plant on earth and its long path through hub gearing, the export trade, wartime munitions, the Chopper, BMX and the Tour-winning Ilkeston workshop, to the end of Nottingham manufacture and the brand's present ownership.

Tech Specs: 1989 Raleigh USA Team Pro Track

1989 Raleigh Team Pro Track (5)

FRAME: Raleigh Team Pro, Campagnolo dropouts, Cinelli lugs FORK: Raleigh Team Pro, Campagnolo dropouts, Zeus 2001 crown HEADSET: Campagnolo C-Record HANDLEBAR: Cinelli Pista, 39cm width STEM: Cinelli Pista, 130mm length SADDLE: Selle Italia Turbo Matic, titanium rails SEAT POST: Campagnolo…

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Catalog cover headed Raleigh The All-Steel Bicycle 1951 for Luxury Cycling, showing cyclists riding past a figure in Elizabethan dress laying down a cloakRaleighColor poster headed The Cycle by which others are judged, showing four cyclists on a lane watching a fox hunt pass a cottageRaleighGreen and black press advertisement headed The Record Raleigh The All-Steel Bicycle is designed and built by experts for experts, showing a Record Tourist bicycleRaleighCatalog fold-out headed Magic Carpet Cycling with Raleigh, showing eleven models arranged around a central roundel advertising easy termsRaleighCatalog page headed The New Raleigh Record Ace R.R.A. Model 26, showing a green lightweight bicycle beside a tree with club cyclists behindRaleighColor lithograph poster of two riders on black Raleigh roadsters against yellow and orange fields, with the heron-head badge and the words Raleigh The All-Steel BicycleRaleighPainted catalog cover headed Ride With the Winner, Team Raleigh, showing a professional rider in Team Raleigh colors leading three children on Raleigh bicyclesRaleighColor catalog cover headed Raleigh goes places in 1962, showing two teenagers on Raleigh bicycles beside a Mountain Camp signpost, with the model range listed down the right edgeRaleighIllustrated catalog spread headed Sturmey Archer, Serving Cyclists Everywhere, showing hub gears and hub brakes with the line No Bicycle is complete without Sturmey ArcherRaleighColor lithograph poster of a woman in shorts waving on a hillside beside a black Raleigh bicycle, headed Raleigh Health CruisesRaleighBlack and white press advertisement showing two men in deckchairs, one asking whether the other has been to the seaside, the reply reading No, Raleigh CruisingRaleighWartime magazine advertisement showing a woman riding a Raleigh bicycle, headed Munition workers require to conserve all their time and energiesRaleigh

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