Raleigh's 2013 range

They look allright to me, and I could be tempted.

They might struggle with brand snobbery (some of which is evident above), but I'm no label victim and I could give one a go and put up with paper round jokes on the club-run

I'm attached to a 22 year old Peugeot so culd quite happliy ride a new Raleigh and think about my first Raleigh bike some 45 years ago.

I think the Team Replica is a great idea.

We had the Raleigh rep in on Tuesday with a Revino 1 and a SP Comp. They seem pretty hard to fault for the money, perhaps a bit weighty on the Revino but generally well finished nicely and sensibly equipped.

Personally I am in love with the Team Replica.

The one cyclocross bike I really want is the Raleigh RXC Pro Disc. It ticks all the boxes for me. I wouldn't want Di2 on it yet though but everything else about it is great. Alas it doesn't seem as if it's going to be available in the UK

Well, I think they look ace and if I was in the market for a new road machine, the Militis would deffinately be on the short list. 880g!

A guy at the club paid about £2k for a Raleigh SP Team or something like that last year. Very nice, full carbon, Ultegra, in white with the old-school raleigh striping (blue/yellow/red was it?) and the name in blue. Looks better than these, they could be any firm's products.

Agree to a point about the graphics (Gran Sport aside). However, overall this range looks like a good move forwards for Raleigh and I really hope they are successful. My first three bikes were all Raleigh - The Grifter and Boxer were cracking bikes to own as a youth and were handed down for years. My first 'proper' road bike was the Raleigh Panasonic Team edition replica from around 1984. I loved that bike, and hope Raleigh can recapture the respect they used to carry.

I do agree though that rebranding the top end bikes might help add some kudos.

Raleigh has an illustrious history in road racing, providing world-beating bikes for the likes of Reg Harris, Joop Zoetemelk, Laurent Fignon and Paul Sherwin. With the new Team Raleigh (our professional road team) getting stronger and stronger and our new premium high end ranges, we're taking great strides to recapture this history, positioning ourselves as one of the best quality road bike brands around. Initial feedback on the 2013 range has been overwhelmingly positive so we're excited to see what the year ahead holds. We'll be putting these bikes under the Road.cc microscope again in the coming months so we can prove why Raleigh stands for exceptional performance and quality throughout the range.
Cheers, Raleigh Marketing Guy.

What Raleigh means to you will be entirely dependent on how old you are.

I belong to the "Chopper" generation...

Raleigh label is as cool as Woolworths and should be put only on low end city shopping and kids bikes.

Mid and high end models should be completely rebranded.

Someone should get "Marketing for Dummies" this Christmas

Sora on the new Carbon bike?

Hmmm

I'm curious to know how many people are nostalgic about Raleigh and whether this would be a factor in them choosing one of the new models.

My real introduction to cycling was through BMX in the 80s and the perception then was that Raleigh was a bit of an also-ran and not really desirable compared to GT, SE Racing, Kuwahara, Mongoose etc. This didn't really change with their clumsy early forays into mountainbikes and for me personally, they are stuck with that worthy but out-dated image.

Just wondered whether others perceive the brand differently?

I was just thinking the same thing belgravedave! I'm sure they're great bikes but stacked up against comparable bikes from other manufacturers the graphics just make me think of things like Burners from the 80s. The more Clubman ones look much nicer IMO.

Really want to like Raleigh and must say the overall shape of the Militis frame and fork looks fantastic, but once again the graphics let it down. Give me a spray can and some stencils and then blindfold me and I reckon I could do a better job.