![]() ![]() After all, it had had the opportunity to make Alex Moulton's fully suspended small-wheeler, but knocked it back because such a wacky idea would never sell.īut it did. It was not interested in taking risks, and it certainly had no plans to make a strange, small-wheeled machine such as the RSW. A conservative company at the best of times, Raleigh was by then primarily interested in seeking ways to cut costs to secure its survival. It was in the early 1960s, with the UK cycle market seemingly in terminal decline, that Raleigh was practically the last man standing of the once-proud UK cycling industry. I'm sure you'd agree that only something rather special would merit such a claim, but before seeing if the RSW lives up to it, let's consider its unlikely origins. Welcome to the Raleigh RSW, one of the iconic bikes of the swinging 60s, and the world's most sophisticated his and hers bike.
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