The Girl Down the Road Comes Home; Raleigh Technium Chills
In 1991 I was an awkward, pimple-faced, red-haired teen-ager. I was also in love. The object of my adoration was the latest Raleigh Technium Chills aluminum mountain-bike. It was spec’ed with full a Shimano Deore DX 7 speed drive-train including STI rapid-fire shifter/brake-levers. It had cantilever brakes, Chinook alloy rims, wish-bone seat-stays and a cool electric-blue and grey paint-job. I tore the add for this bike from my Bicycling magazine and taped it to the bedroom wall. All spring and summer I drooled over that bike at my favourite Ottawa-area bike shop, Ottawa Bikeway. I saved and saved and saved while I lusted from afar, just waiting for the day I could finally purchase that beautiful bicycle.
One Saturday afternoon, going into Bikeway for my weekly salivation, I found to my horror that the bike had been sold during the week! None more in my size were available, the dream was shattered. It was like the girl down the road moving out of town, gone forever. Eventually I purchased a 1991 GT Karakoram K2 which was then stolen and replaced with a 1992 Giant CFM2 which I crashed during a race and broke the frame.
In 2014 I am an equally as awkward, bearded, bald big-kid. I also still hold a flame for that bike, or at least, a sentimental fancy. Today, the girl down the street came back into my life. Arriving in Terlingua, Texas a couple of days ago, this morning I walked into Desert Sports and there she was. Dusty and in desperate need of work is that very same bike, a 1991 Raleigh Technium Chills. While it may be a size too small, it makes up for it with its cutting-edge (well, cutting-edge for 1991) Scott World Champion edition Unishock ‘S’ suspension fork.
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