list of raleigh bike models 1990s

As he could not source BMX bikes from Raleigh, he instead started importing from the USA. 1. Sadly, this was only after its main rivals, Sachs (now Spectro by SRAM) and Shimano had already introduced 7-speed hubs. Sales had been falling at about 8% per annum for the previous two years but in 1998 they plunged 29% to 405,000, the lowest since 1970. The effect of these mergers was that Raleigh’s sales figures showed a slight upward trend during most of the 1950s. The TI take-over followed a collaborative venture with Raleigh in South Africa. There is therefore sometimes a love-hate relationship, akin to that between the UK’s major supermarket chains and British farmers. The name of its budget range, launched in 1938 as Gazelle, was changed to Robin Hood, and Raleigh acquired Rudge-Whitworth.

Despite a 40% increase in sales since launch of the RSW16, Raleigh’s profits for the previous year were down 8% and Moulton was losing money unsustainably. Our friend Harry Downing bought this lovely machine at a bike shop in Iowa in the 1970’s. The success of Carlton was seen as diluting the Raleigh brand and therefore the Carlton brand was killed off. The following year, Raleigh invoked the break clause in their agreement with Alex Moulton and stopped making his cycles. Diamondback already had a presence in the UK, with brand strengths suggestive of youth, aggression and zaniness. In 1998, this was $465m. Six years later, Bowden bought back Raleigh, which was to remain in family hands for the next quarter century. Raleigh Catalogue 1991 Date: 20/11/06 Views: 30239 Keywords: 1991. Subsequently they bought other companies, including the German Kalkhoff company, now the main Raleigh outlet in Germany. In the late 1960s, Schwinn and other US cycle makers had discovered a grassroots Californian trend towards high-rise cycles for adolescents and were now capitalising on it. There was a long tradition of sports sponsorship in Raleigh, traceable to the days of its founder, Frank Bowden.


Yet there was still very little interest in mountain biking in the UK: a review of the UK cycling scene in the International Cycling Guide 1983 made no mention of it. After her retirement as marketing director in 1998, Yvonne Rix continued working for Raleigh part-time until mid 2000 as manager responsible for licensing. This model Raleigh used an internal hub, which meant that shifting was accomplished without the use of external sprockets and a derailleur. Titanium really came of age in the 1990s with a lot of different makes. Raleigh was an interesting, but turbulent, place to work in the years 1975 to 2002. The Select had a proportional power control system that automatically monitored and matched the rider’s energy input, switching-in electric assistance only when required. Older Raleighs typically come in one of three colors: black (as on this bike); "Bronze Green," a dark metallic green, and "Coffee," a dark metallic brown. Raleigh was able to handle wider but thinner-walled steel tubes and hence the Max range was born. The Bomber and Burner also temporarily helped arrest Raleigh’s declining market share.
By mid 1965, Moulton was producing more than 1,000 units a week. Competitors, reasonably enough, did not wish to use the Raleigh name, Pioneer. For the doers who remained, it was a liberating experience. Alex Moulton therefore built his own factory and started delivering Moultons to the trade in March 1963. Further advancement was difficult in the design department because of the high levels of technical expertise required. In the latter three markets, Raleigh was the number-one manufacturer of bicycles.In 2001, following continuing financial problems at Derby Cycle, there was a management buy-out of all the remaining Raleigh companies led by Alan Finden-Crofts.By 2003, assembly of bicycles had ended in the UK with 280 assembly and factory staff made redundant, and bicycles were to come "from Vietnam and other centres of 'low-cost, high-quality' production. I suppose some people will view it as the end of an era, but this has been known about for some time and is a very small part of the work we do here.’ On 10th December 1999, at the very end of the period under review, Raleigh announced that it had auctioned off its frame-making equipment. There’s then a few postcripts, bringing the Raleigh story bang up to date. However, initial sales were disappointing.

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