Frank bowden raleigh

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The Raleigh Cycle Company produced light delivery vans and bicycles at Nottingham from They also manufactured motorcycles from to , to and to see below. Autumn - Frank Bowden , a lawyer and cyclist, visited the makers of his tricycle, Woodhead, Angois and Ellis of Nottingham, and persuaded the company to accept him as financial backer.

Later that year, Ellis left the partnership. Exercise Bicycle Sport Bicycle pedal Bicycle helmet. He was so impressed with his recovering health and the bicycle that in —88 he acquired control of the company, which was then making three bicycles a week. Motorized bicycle Bicycle frame Cycling Bicycle wheel Safety bicycle. List of eponyms List of eponyms A-K. Models include the Obsession, Flashpoint and Ovation.

The Edge Mountain Trials bike still has a small picture in the catalog and is most likely carried over to help move left over inventory. The aluminum head lug is now cold forged to save.

The derailleur cable stops are now slotted and the rear brake cable is now external with housing stops integrated into a ring that goes between the frame tubing and the lugs. Straight bladed forks are used across the model line. There is also a line of lighter duty "urban ATB" line. Once again, mountain bikes follow the road bikes in the catalog.

Raleigh must have finally sold off the remaining stock of Vision frames and Edge trials bikes since neither appear in the catalog.

There is a new Altimetric series of steel bikes that are sill off-road oriented but at a lower price. Below this, there is another line of "Urban All-Terrain" bikes for more city-oriented riding. On the racing front, John Tomac joins the Raleigh team and brings one of the most accomplished and recognized racer to the Raleigh camp.

Since bikes are spec'ed so far in advance, Tomac has little input for the bikes and is not mentioned in the catalog. Road bikes are still at the front the catalog.

John makes and appearance on the catalog cover and is credited with helping in the new mountain bike design. He is quoted as saying "Keep the front end stiff, so it goes where I point it! The oversized top tube, oversized head set, large diameter stem and the constant diameter fork blades combine with a sloping tube tube to increase the rigidity of the front end of the bike. The Sheer takes over the top spot combining Easton C9 carbon fiber and E9 aluminum which is bonded to cold forged lugs and Cro-moly stays.

The Technium models used anodized main tubes including the graphics. Tires are a mix of black wall and natural skin walls. All Technium frames use 1. Head lugs and seat lugs are cold forged aluminum to help save weight. Traditional threaded steerer tubes are still found on all models. The Tomac influence is now in full swing with a new John Tomac Signature bike, new titanium bikes and a redesigned Technium frame. Approximately 60 bikes were made and the spec seems to vary depending on availability and different sponsorship obligations.

Some of the Raleigh literature mentions the bikes being built to the spec that Tomac was riding that week. The frames used a Litespeed-sourced rear triangle and head tube assembly with the E-9 carbon wrapped tubes in the main frame.

The fame was assembled using the Technium process. Tioga was one of the main sponsors and supplied the headset, bar ends, handlebars, seat post, Revolver cranks, Tension disk rear wheel and Psycho tires.

The first bikes used the Rock Shox Mag 21 suspension fork but it was replaced with the Tioga fork when it became available. Most of the Tioga parts were finished in blue which looked nice with the natural Ti and carbon of the frame. Two new full titanium models also bore the Tomac signature. Both bikes used a fair amount of Tioga branded parts in keeping with the spirit of the Tioga sponsorship of Tomac.