Free to good home.

[Mark Stonich]

Ladies and Gentlemen

I need to make space in my garage, and I doubt I will ever ride my Raleigh Sport based recumbent again. Everything you see in the photo, except the seat and bag. I doubt anyone will go to the trouble to make a seat and use this as a recumbent, but there are quite a few usable parts. Headset, controls and h’bars, brakes, chainguard, nice high-rise stem etc. Rear wheel and fender are from a Raleigh 20, with S5 internals in the AW shell. Front wheel and fender are from an F-frame Moulton, with a low mileage Brompton tire.

All or nothing. You want the chainguard, you get the whole bike. Local pickup only. I don’t know what happened to the seat. It should be around here somewhere but I can’t find it.

Mark Stonich
Bikesmith Design and Fabrication LLC
5349 Elliot Ave
Minneapolis MN USA
Ph. +1 (612) 710-9593

http://www.bikesmithdesign.com

[Steven Johnson]

I am out of the area, but have to say that is seriously cool.

Some thought went into that build.

Hope it goes to someone who can improve on it, or preserve it? Price is right.

Attached photo is a likely 60s Mel Pinto budget track frame. With a 1952 AW dated Raleigh power train. Looks like a shop rat build from many years past.

Steven Johnson, Millersville, MD

On Mon, May 4, 2026, 12:17 PM Mark Stonich <bikesmi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ladies and Gentlemen

I need to make space in my garage, and I doubt I will ever ride my Raleigh Sport based recumbent again. Everything you see in the photo, except the seat and bag. I doubt anyone will go to the trouble to make a seat and use this as a recumbent, but there are quite a few usable parts. Headset, controls and h’bars, brakes, chainguard, nice high-rise stem etc. Rear wheel and fender are from a Raleigh 20, with S5 internals in the AW shell. Front wheel and fender are from an F-frame Moulton, with a low mileage Brompton tire.

[Mark Stonich]

The idea was to have as much Raleigh content as possible, because I needed it for the Lake Pepin 3 Speed Tour. That year I was suffering from Polymyalgia Rheumatica. Mostly in my hands, arms and shoulders. Which made riding a conventional bike painful. I could ride a Moulton for short distances, with fat squishy grips. But 

I would have to take my hands lightly off the bars when hitting bumps. PR usually lasts 18-24 months, but because I was able to get plenty of exercise on the bike, I got over it in 9.

Those Pinto track and tandems were generic, with different names depending upon who the distributor was.

The Raleigh handled quite well, even on high speed descents. Probably because I ran an HPV builders club that built around 400 machines and we learned from each other’s mistakes and successes. 

I’ll keep looking for the seat, as I’d love to see someone put it back on the road. At 80, with heart issues and hip and knee replacements I need more than 5 speeds. 

From the iPad of Mark Stonich

www.bikesmithdesign.com 612-710-9593 (work & cell)

5349 Elliot Ave. Minneapolis Minnesota 55417