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StellaAtoiz:
Having just managed to get shot of a Raleigh Team Aero Pro over the last couple of weeks, another showed up on the bay at a silly Buy It Now price - I left it a couple of hours to allow a Burner enthusiast to snap it up, but as they did not bother, I thought I would ???

I wonder if any of you guys in the know could give some advice on the Skyways on it - this is a pic of the one I just got shot of which had alloy hubbed Skyways both front and rear;



....and this is a pic of the one I have just got, which has an alloy hubbed rear only;







FRONT;





REAR;



My question is - is the front a new type Skyway :-\

Also, the tyres are Mitsuboshi and the walls appear to be dirty white in colour, would these have simply lost their colour over the years or did Mitsuboshi do white wall comp III's?

....bit of an odd stem on it as well :-\





Thanks for your time :daumenhoch:

ozone:
Is the bike from 1985?  I'm sure it was '85 when Skyway phased out the alloy hub and a lot of bikes came equipped with an alloy rear hub and plastic front.  Probably the original wheels the bike came with IMO. 

A bit of a pain to sell on their own as people prefer either alloy or plastic pairs of wheels, not a mixture of both.

brummie:
hi jase
you keep coming up with these tasty ap's. i must get one one day
the front wheel is an 80's looseball tuff so id say 1985+ think they did sets of alloy rear and placky front but sure someone on here will know for sure
as for the tyres that looks like the walls may have perished. if you have cleaned the bike skinwalled tyres can go white when wet but when they dry out will return to skin colour  :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:

personally i like the rear alloy and plastic front as a lot of my bikes are 1985

StellaAtoiz:
 ::)

Thanks for that chaps :daumenhoch:.......at least the front is kind of era correct.

Just checked the underside of the BB - my last one had a date stamp on it, however this one does not so I can't put a year to it unfortunately :-\

pickle:
looks sweet! deffo original tuffs from around 85.....and not cracks either as they tended to develope hairline cracks around the hub  :daumenhoch:

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