New from Raleigh

[CS2]

Unless this has been mentioned Raleigh has a nice Alfine 11 equipped bike. Best of all it has a Gates belt drive. While they bill it as an Urban bike all it really needs is a set of good off road tires and a fork. Misceo i11 looks to have a $1,750 MSRP.

[fokof]

Nice!


With a nice rigid fork , yummy

[CS2]

Last year they spec'd 2 flat bar road bikes with an i11 and i8.

[Fiskare]

I like this one even better, but only for the drive train. I wish they would marry that stuff to some steel framesets. Good tubing, lighter gauge, and just tig it together. A working mans bike. That would be a winner for me. If I bought one of these I would have a hard time not moving all the good stuff to a UJB, or similar.

[CS2]

I like this one even better, but only for the drive train. I wish they would marry that stuff to some steel framesets. Good tubing, lighter gauge, and just tig it together. A working mans bike. That would be a winner for me. If I bought one of these I would have a hard time not moving all the good stuff to a UJB, or similar.

I agree, Raliegh took a serious dive from their former glory days. They are making a serious comeback though, especially in the niche segments.

Try checking out the Raleigh Tripper. It uses the Furley/Roper steel frame and fork and an IG hub. Their site is down this morning so I can't link to it.

[CS2]

Actually, there is a nice review of the Tripper in Cyclocross forum.

[mtrider857]

I built up a Furley with an alfine 8. works great using a Jtec shifter. by far the most fun I have had on a bike in years.

[irishmongooserider]

Raleigh has some cool and unique models, and I really love the Misceo series as a quick urban bike.

[kustomz]

Wow! That Misceo i11 has the makings for a nice gravel/adventure bike. Throw on a Niner rigid fork and you would have a nice start. It sports a Happy Medium 700cx38c, but wonder if it could hand a 2.0 or 1.9 29er tire?

Edit: to say they should have used the XXIX frame and it would have been a total winner with 440mm CS.