Raleigh Grand Prix

The Raleigh Grand Prix was a ten-speed road racing bicycle from Raleigh, built to Carlton designs and sold most heavily in the United States. The BikeBiz history of Raleigh records that between 1970 and 1972 demand there for lightweight ten-speed cycles rose forty-fold, and that the Record and Grand Prix models, based on Carlton designs, sold in massive numbers, at one point being made in Nottingham, at Worksop by Carlton, in the Netherlands by Gazelle, by Raleigh Ireland and possibly even in Malaysia. Raleigh's 1968 United States catalogue lists the DL 115 Grand Prix at 89 dollars between the Record and the Super Course, a hand-made bicycle built by Carlton with a fully lugged racing frame, Simplex Prestige ten-speed gears, Weinmann centre-pull brakes and Dunlop Sprite gum wall tyres, in Flamboyant Red or Bronze Green. The 1970 catalogue fits it with a Huret Luxe ten-speed gear and offers blue, bronze green or red with black trim.