Raleigh Catalog — The Speed Range: Gran Sport, Sprite and Blue Streak Mark II

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RALEIGH PRESENT

THE SPEED RANGE THAT’S THE GREATEST!

Built to race-ace requirements at realistic prices

[The front cover: a loose ink drawing of a bunch of racing cyclists riding over bright diagonal bands of purple, orange, pink, yellow and blue, with the Raleigh name in white script on a black panel at the lower left.]

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A new, vivid version of cycling’s most famous mark!

All over the world, the famous Raleigh Heron’s Head symbol is known as the mark of supreme quality in bicycles . . . now, on the new Raleigh Gran Sport and Raleigh Sprite models, it appears in a new, vivid form – more colourful, more in keeping with the new age of speed that these cycles are brilliantly designed and built for!

NOW

Raleigh bring you the greatest speed range ever!

Brilliantly new from headcrest onwards and built to race-ace requirements . . .

They’re here! . . . the most exciting speed-cycles that ever happened. Right from the vivid new headcrest, all the way through from stem to stern, these new Raleigh sports models are the greatest – in design, in equipment, in sensational value! Read their specifications, check their features and fittings, carefully, critically . . . you’ll agree these machines would satisfy a racing ace. And yet, in spite of all this, and their lithe, lively lines, their sparkling eye-compelling colours, their prices are realistic . . . well within your means though in everything else they’re way, way out of this world!

. . . out-of-this-world in design and equipment, down-to-earth in price!

[The new Raleigh headcrest introduced for the Gran Sport and Sprite models: an enlarged oval badge with the heron’s head before a flaming torch and rainbow stripes, lettered “Raleigh” and “NOTTINGHAM ENGLAND”, shown beside the older heron badge lettered “THE RALEIGH NOTTINGHAM ENGLAND”. The facing column announces the new speed range.]

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The Raleigh Gran Sport

Never before has any Sports Cycle been so excitingly new!

SPECIFICATION MODEL 74

Frame Set Built with finest quality high tensile steel tubing – cutaway lugs and bottom bracket in clean contemporary style. Styled front and rear fork ends. Fine taper seat stays incorporating wrap over with scalloped seat lug. Oval to round chainstays and front fork blades. Fork crown forged and machined.

1. Sizes: 21½”, 22½”, 23½”. Gent’s only.
2. Top tube length 22⅜” c/c.
3. Wheelbase 41 5/16″ normal.
4. Bottom Bracket height 10¾”.
5. Head and Seat Angles 72° parallel.
6. Front Fork rake 2⅜”.
7. Wheel size 27″.
8. Brazed on fittings: Fork lamp bracket boss. Gear change cable tunnel at bottom bracket with eyelets on down tube and chainstay. Stop on down tube to locate derailleur gear change levers.
9. Pump clips – Campagnolo on seat tube.

Wheels and Tyres: Dunlop H.P. rims with 27″ × 1¼” Dunlop Sprite tyres. Airseal tubes with Presta valves. Racelite hubs 14/16-gauge double butted spokes.

Handlebar: Maes pattern G.B. alloy, 15/16″ taped and plugged. G.B. solid forged light alloy stem. 2¾” extension on 21½” and 22½” frames, 3½” on 23½” frame.

Brakes: G.B. ‘Coureur 66’ with Superhood Rapide levers and quick release.

Mudguards: Bluemel ‘Classique’.

Gears: Campagnolo Gran Sport 5-speed 14T, 16T, 18T, 21T, 24T freewheel block. Campagnolo 2-speed chainwheel changer.

Chainwheel: 49T/46T × 3/32″ or 46T × 3/32″.

Chain: Brampton 3/32″ riveted.

Saddle: Brooks’ B15N. SPF perforated. Chromium chassis.

Equipment: Polished alloy inflator – 18″ on 23½” frame, 17″ on 22½” frame, 15″ on 21½” frame. Coloral single bottle in carrier on down tube.

Finish: Flamboyant Venetian Blue, Firecracker Red, or Sunset Yellow. All with – Black head tube and Gold lined head lugs. Black mudguards with silver centre. Front fork ends chromium plated. Black handlebar tape and brake cables. Contemporary sports style head crest and transfers.

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[The Raleigh Gran Sport, Model 74, a blue lightweight with Campagnolo gears, mudguards, Brooks saddle and a bottle on the down tube, photographed against a yellow panel beside an ink drawing of a cyclist and a spectator. The full specification is set in four columns below the photograph.]

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The Raleigh Sprite

It can challenge expensive, exclusive machines on any ground

SPECIFICATION MODEL 73

Frame Set Built with finest quality high tensile steel tubing – cutaway lugs and bottom bracket in clean contemporary style. Styled front and rear fork ends. Fine taper seat stays incorporating wrap over with scalloped seat lug. Oval to round chainstays and front fork blades. Fork crown forged and machined.

1. Sizes: 21½”, 22½”, 23½”.
2. Top tube length 22⅜” c/c.
3. Wheelbase 41 5/16″ normal.
4. Bottom Bracket height 10¾”.
5. Head and Seat Angles 72° parallel.
6. Front Fork rake 2⅜”.
7. Wheel size 27″.
8. Brazed on fittings: Fork lamp bracket boss. Gear change cable tunnel at bottom bracket with eyelets on down tube and chainstay. Stop on down tube to locate derailleur gear change levers.
9. Pump clips – Campagnolo on seat tube.

Wheels and Tyres: H.P. rims with 27″ × 1¼” Dunlop Sprite tyres – Airseal tubes with ‘Presta’ valves 14/16-gauge double butted spokes.

Handlebar: Maes pattern bend 15/16″ steel, taped and plugged, 2½” extension.

Brakes: G.B. alloy – rubber hoods on levers.

Mudguards: Britton’s celluloid.

Gears: Campagnolo 5-speed.

Chainwheel: 46T, option 49T/46T double.

Saddle: Lycett’s L15 Swallow.

Equipment: Inflator as Model 74.

Finish: Polychromatic Silver Grey, Firecracker Red or Flamboyant Electric Blue. All with – Powder Blue head and handlebar tape, Pearl Blue mudguards. Contemporary sports style head crest and transfers.

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[The Raleigh Sprite, Model 73, a red lightweight with pale blue mudguards, Campagnolo five speed gears and a Lycett saddle, photographed against a yellow panel beside an ink drawing of track riders before a crowd. The full specification is set in three columns below the photograph.]

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The Raleigh Blue Streak Mark II

The cycle that altered your ideas of value–now in a brilliant new version

SPECIFICATION MODEL 72

Frame Set Built with finest quality high tensile steel tubing – cutaway lugs and bottom bracket in clean contemporary style. Styled front and rear fork ends. Fine taper seat stays incorporating wrap over with scalloped seat lug. Oval to round chainstays and front fork blades. Fork crown forged and machined.

1. Sizes: 21½”, 22½”, 23½”.
2. Top tube length 22⅜” c/c.
3. Wheelbase 41 5/16″ normal.
4. Bottom Bracket height 10¾”.
5. Head and Seat Angles 72° parallel.
6. Front Fork rake 2⅜”.
7. Wheel size 27″.
8. Brazed on fittings: Fork lamp bracket boss. Gear change cable tunnel at bottom bracket with eyelets on down tube and chainstay. Stop on down tube to locate derailleur gear change levers.
9. Pump clips – Campagnolo on seat tube.

Wheels and Tyres: 27″ × 1¼” Endrick rims – Dunlop White Sprite tyres with Airseal tubes and ‘Presta’ valves. 14-gauge spokes.

Handlebar: 15/16″ steel Maes pattern bend taped and plugged, 2½” extension.

Brakes: G.B. alloy.

Mudguards: Britton’s celluloid, Electric Blue.

Gears: Benelux ‘Mark 7′ 3/32″ 5-speed or Sturmey-Archer F.M. 4-speed.

Chainwheel: 46T, option 49T/46T double chainwheel on derailleur gear model only.

Saddle: Lycett’s L15 Swallow.

Equipment: Inflator as Model 74. Twin Coloral bottles in carrier on handlebar.

Finish: Polychromatic Silver with Flamboyant Electric Blue Peaks to top and down tubes. Chainstays, Backstays and Fork Blades lined Blue. Unique Blue Streak transfers.

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[The Raleigh Blue Streak Mark II, Model 72, a silver lightweight with blue panels, blue mudguards, white sidewall Dunlop tires and twin bottles on the handlebar, photographed against a magenta panel beside an ink drawing of a bunch of riders before a marquee. The full specification is set in three columns below the photograph.]

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SEE HOW RALEIGH FEATURES AND FITTINGS MEASURE UP TO RACE-ACE REQUIREMENTS

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The transfer decoration, of quiet design, effectively blends in with a wide choice of new colours.

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[The left half of a features spread: a line drawing of the rear of a Raleigh lightweight on a blue ground, with leader lines to five numbered close-up photographs of the seat cluster, the inflator on the seat tube, the rear fork ends, the derailleur gear and the chainwheel. The numbers 3, 13, 5, 14 and 8 are printed on a pink strip beside the close-ups, and the drawing continues across the gutter onto the facing page.]

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THE RACE-ACE FEATURES AND FITTINGS

Those marked * are illustrated

* 1 LUGS
Simple and elegant in design and appearance.
* 2 FORK CROWN
Forged and machined in best racing tradition.
* 3 WRAP OVER
Wrap over seat stays.
4 OVAL FORK BLADES AND CHAINSTAY
Simple, sturdy and rigidly efficient.
* 5 FRONT AND REAR ENDS
6 BRAZED ON AT ESSENTIAL POINTS
7 CHROMIUM PLATED FORK ENDS
* 8 CHAINWHEEL AND CRANKS
Chainwheel – refreshingly attractive in design – beautifully machined cranks.
9 LOW BOTTOM BRACKET
Bottom bracket – not too low, not too high, just right.
10 DOME NUTS
11 ANGLES 72° parallel.
12 BLUEMEL CLASSIQUE GUARDS
The best in the world.
* 13 CAMPAG PUMP CLIPS
* 14 CAMPAG GEAR
With Raleigh Disc Protector.
* 15 CAMPAG CHANGE LEVER AND STOP
16 G.B. ALLOY BEND
G.B. Alloy Maes pattern bend with centre liner.
* 17 G.B. ALLOY STEM
* 18 G.B. 66 BRAKES
G.B. Alloy Brakes (Coureur 66) quick release centre pull.
19 BROOKS’ B15N SADDLE – PERFORATED
20 RACELITE HUBS
Racelite large flange alloy Hubs.
21 COLORAL BOTTLE AND DETACHABLE CARRIER
22 POLISHED ALLOY INFLATOR
23 DUNLOP HIGH PRESSURE RIMS
Size 27″ × 1¼”
24 DUNLOP SPRITE TYRES

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The design and equipment which is featured on these pages covers the range of machines – but each and every item does not apply to all models. See individual specifications.

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[A line drawing of the front half of a Raleigh lightweight on a blue ground, its top tube lettered “Gran Sport”, with leader lines to five close-up photographs of the stem, lugs, fork crown, center-pull brake and gear lever keyed 17, 1, 2, 18 and 15. Beside them a numbered list of 24 “Race-Ace” features and fittings, the illustrated ones marked with a red asterisk.]

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The Raleigh Sprite

For the girl who makes the pace and sets the style!

SPECIFICATION MODEL 73L

Frame Set Built with finest quality high tensile steel tubing – cutaway lugs and bottom bracket in clean contemporary style. Styled front and rear fork ends. Fine taper seat stays incorporating wrap over with scalloped seat lug. Oval to round chainstays and front fork blades. Fork crown forged and machined.

1. Size: 21½” only.
2. Wheelbase 41 5/16″ normal.
3. Bottom Bracket height 10¾”.
4. Head and Seat Angles 72° parallel.
5. Front Fork rake 2⅜”.
6. Wheel size 27″.
7. Brazed on fittings: Fork lamp bracket boss. Gear change cable tunnel at bottom bracket with eyelets on down tube and chainstay. Stop on down tube to locate derailleur gear change lever.
8. Pump clips – Campagnolo on down tube.

Wheels and Tyres: H.P. rims with 27″ × 1¼” Dunlop Sprite tyres – Airseal tubes with ‘Presta’ valves. 14/16 gauge double butted spokes.
Handlebar: ⅞” steel Maes pattern with 2½” extension.
Brakes: G.B. alloy – rubber hoods on levers.
Mudguards: Britton’s celluloid.
Gears: Campagnolo 5-speed.
Chainwheel: 46T, option 49T/46T Double.
Saddle: Lycett’s L15 Standard.
Equipment: Inflator 17″.
Finish: Polychromatic Silver Grey, Firecracker Red or Flamboyant Electric Blue. All with – Powder Blue head and handlebar tape, Pearl Blue mudguards. Contemporary sports style head crest and transfers.

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[The Raleigh Sprite, Model 73L, a women’s lightweight with a mixte-style frame, shown in red with pale blue mudguards against a yellow panel, with its full specification below. At the right a blue-and-white line drawing shows a group of young cyclists with their bicycles outside a timbered building.]

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The Raleigh Blue Streak Mark II

Smartest bicycle-buy you can make-greatest value you can get

SPECIFICATION MODEL 72L

Frame Set Built with finest quality high tensile steel tubing – cutaway lugs and bottom bracket in clean contemporary style. Styled front and rear fork ends. Fine taper seat stays incorporating wrap over with scalloped seat lug. Oval to round chainstays and front fork blades. Fork crown forged and machined.

1. Size: 21½” only.
2. Wheelbase 41 5/16″ normal.
3. Bottom Bracket height 10¾”.
4. Head and Seat Angles 72° parallel.
5. Front Fork rake 2⅜”.
6. Wheel size 27″.
7. Brazed on fittings: Fork lamp bracket boss. Gear change cable tunnel at bottom bracket with eyelets on down tube and chainstay. Stop on down tube to locate derailleur gear change lever.
8. Pump clips – Campagnolo on down tube.

Wheels and Tyres: 27″ × 1¼” Endrick rims – Dunlop White Sprite tyres with Airseal tubes and ‘Presta’ valves. 14-gauge spokes.

Handlebar: ⅞” steel Maes pattern with 2½” extension, option ‘All-Rounder’.
Brakes: G.B. alloy.
Mudguards: Britton’s celluloid, Electric Blue.
Gears: Benelux ‘Mark 7’ 3/32″ 5-speed or Sturmey-Archer F.M. 4-speed.
Chainwheel: 46T.
Saddle: Lycett’s L15 Standard.
Equipment: Inflator 17″. Twin Coloral bottles in carrier on handlebar.
Finish: Polychromatic Silver with Flamboyant Electric Blue Peaks to top and down tubes. Chainstays, Backstays and Fork Blades lined Blue. Unique Blue Streak transfers.

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[The Raleigh Blue Streak Mark II, Model 72L, a women’s lightweight in silver with blue head, peaks and mudguards and twin bottles on the handlebar, shown against a magenta panel with its full specification below. At the left a black line drawing on yellow and red shows a camping scene with tents, campers and a bicycle.]

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Experts go enthusiastic over…

The Raleigh Gran Sport

Before the Raleigh Gran Sport was put on the market we invited several well-known cycling journalists – men with a real knowledge of ‘race-ace’ requirements, and whose judgements are followed by millions of readers – to say what they thought of this new cycle.

BOB RODNEY
of the Daily Mirror said –
“Every design point, every piece of equipment, every fitting makes you enthusiastic about the Raleigh Gran Sport!”

BILL MILLS
of the News Chronicle said –
“I’ve never known a ready-made bicycle to have so many tailor-made features before.”

SIDNEY SALTMARSH
of the Daily Herald said –
“Obviously everything has been thought about, and thought about again to make the Raleigh Gran Sport the greatest ever.”

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[The Raleigh Gran Sport introduced with portrait photographs of three cycling journalists, Bob Rodney of the Daily Mirror, Bill Mills of the News Chronicle and Sidney Saltmarsh of the Daily Herald, each with a quoted comment on the bicycle. At the right the Gran Sport is shown head-on from the front on a blue ground, with red frame, dropped handlebars and pedals.]

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ANY RALEIGH CAN BE YOURS ON EASY TERMS

ANY RALEIGH CAN BE YOURS on EASY TERMS FOR A SMALL DEPOSIT AND PAYMENTS SPREAD OVER 9, 12 or 18 MONTHS.

ASK YOUR RALEIGH DEALER for full details of the attractive terms available which include insurance cover against accidental damage, fire or theft of your Raleigh and your weekly instalment paid for you in the event of ACCIDENT, SICKNESS OR UNEMPLOYMENT

(We regret that Unemployment Cover is not available in Northern Ireland)

TAKE ADVANTAGE of the RALEIGH EASY TERMS incorporating the NO WORRY PAYMENTS PROTECTION PLAN

RALEIGH special easy terms include insurance!

CAMPAGNOLO
GEAR
CHAIN SHIFTER
GEAR LEVERS

BENELUX
CHAIN SHIFTER
GEAR LEVERS
GEAR

CAMPAGNOLO AND BENELUX GEARS FOR THE DISCRIMINATING RIDER

CAMPAGNOLO GRAN SPORT GEAR
The finest gear of its kind fitted to the renowned Raleigh Gran Sport and Raleigh Sprite

CYCLO BENELUX MARK 7 GEAR
This superb chain gear is fitted to the Raleigh Blue Streak

AD9276 Printed in England by Franklyn Ward & Wheeler Limited, Leicester.

Prices and Specification are subject to alteration without notice

[A page on Raleigh easy payment terms with insurance cover, beside line drawings on a magenta panel of the Campagnolo gear, chain shifter and gear levers and the Benelux gear, chain shifter and gear levers. At the right an arrow points to the text naming the Campagnolo Gran Sport gear on the Gran Sport and Sprite and the Cyclo Benelux Mark 7 gear on the Blue Streak.]

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NOW MORE THAN EVER YOU REALLY WANT A RALEIGH

-the name you know best in bicycles

A Product of Raleigh Industries Ltd.

You can rely on your Raleigh dealer for every cycling service

[The back cover, a line drawing of a bunch of racing cyclists crossed by bands of pink, purple, blue and orange, with the slogan “Now more than ever you really want a Raleigh” and the Raleigh wordmark in blue. A dashed box for the dealer’s imprint at the lower right is empty.]