Sometimes we take consignment bikes from our very good customers. Here is one of those instances….
Up for grabs is this rare piece of collectable history, beautifully restored to collectable AND riding condition.

Here, for your reading pleasure, is a list of its original parts as spelled out by its owner:

* Chrome at 97% on rims, handlebars, and hubs
* Paint at 85% - restored with Mentomy Oil
* Decals at 88%
* Original Sturmey Archer A W 0 3 Speed Hub (A W 3 spd first introduced in 1937) with grease port
* Original Sturmey Archer top tube mounted gear shifter
* Rare Lucas Bike Comptometer (early mechanical bike mileage/ Odometer in working condition)
* Original Roadster 26 1/4 tires at 70% - some sidewall cracking (NOS tubes) if to be ridden not collected
* Original Wrights internal spring suspension saddle at 70%
* Original Raleigh bottom bracket race cups with grease port
* Original battery lamp modified to work with C batteries (the light really works!)
* Original brake calipers and levers, with NOS Raleigh block pads
* Original Raleigh stamped block pedals at 90%
* Original high carbon steel frame, lugged and mitered construction serial #A53667
* WWII courier panniers
* Original chain case with lubricating port

** See www.retroraleighs.com/catalogs for the 1930s- 1940s specifications for this beautiful bike.

You can stop by and see this beauty in person at the shop for a limit time…..