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Here's a Specialissima from the mid 80's carrying the same features as previous models: Chrome fork crown (full not partial) and chainstay.

http://www.veloaficionado.com/blog/when-the-new-dog-digs-up-the-old-dog-part-6/

This from the Kays Trade directory (Pinewood Studios) he's also well quoted on Film Bang:

https://kays.co.uk/listings/bicycles-unlimited

I'm talking about commercial TV or film. That's the going rate. Production assistants will try and get you to work for free, that's their job. My job, in a previous life was to tell them to fuck off! Most extras are signed up to agencies, nowadays, providing a prop = expensive.

I know Doug Pinkerton quite well, he day hires vintage bikes to film and TV production. This 'prop' hire is about £600 a day, and Doug insists he is on set as mechanic for 'health and safety'. Of course on location accondation ect is covered by a further per diem payment. Smart move ;) It's a good business if you have a decent stable of period bicycles.

On polished aluminium I use 00-grade steel wool. It's extremely fine and will take of even hard to shift logos. I've also used it on black ano parts but if you're not experienced with it you'll rub though the ano. It'll go to places acetone won't shift.

I've had even engraved stuff polished out of un anodized kit. Just requires elbow grease and small learning curve. You can buy 00 in most hardware stores. Will also shine up just about any bit of vintage kit like new.

The Martrac is very nice. My mate had a curved top/down tube version. They were famous for mix and matching Reynolds and Columbus tubes to get a stiff, fast frame.

The going daily for extra work like this, supplying your own props (bike) ifs £350-400 per person. Extra, if they ask you to do anything like tricks/stunts. A stunt guy, even to ride a bike would set them back £900 a shift. Doug Pinkerton charges £600 a day for bike film +TV work.

Production companies will try and get you to do this stuff for free, playing on your vanity. Shit off!

I got one free with a cree front light. They're pretty shit, but free!

She's a cunt. Not even a good cunt, at that.

They're the middle class, white cycling elite. What did you expect!? Wait till in/out eu referendum time...

https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/28267220@N05/sets/72157623655271692/

Here's an 81 Del Mondo, virtually identical to yours except the small chrome on fork crown. Note, no chrome head lugs or chain stay. These were bizarrely specced with a mixture of Gran Sport, Record and Super Record parts.

I've got one myself. It's an 81 model. None of these catalogues are accurate, especially as Italian frames, like American movies tended to.land in the UK 12-18 months after their introduction in Italy.

The tretubi models are pretty much below middle of the range Bianchi. The panto on the seat stays and forks is later and not as ornate as the top end models with the Bianchi crest. No chrome chainstay, fork crown or head lugs, that's the dead giveaway for a middling bianchi. Think 531 main tubes Carlton, rather than SBDU 753 Raleigh. A nice frame though. Good find.

It's a Campione Del Mondo, early 80's rather than 76. IT'S a Tretubi model,the main tubes are Columbus SL tubing. The forks and stays are made of Columbus Aelle tubing which are seamless Manganese Steel not Chrome-Moly alloy. Aelle forks and stays have slightly thicker walls than Columbus SL tubes. Hence a bit heavier. The old boy probably up selling you a French bike shop fantasy ;) Bon aventure ;)

It's mid range Italian tubing, butted and pretty rare. You'll very rarely find it outside of Italy. On a par with Columbus SLX for weight and strength.

I agree, the paint is very heavy, especially round the bottom bracket. Also the heavy chips there suggest a modern, maybe car paint finish. Not very convincing at all. The more I.look at it, the more I think 'modern repro'. It's a well done repro though, but not the real deal.

Saarf, over on the Colnago appreciation page is probably the guy to ask.

It's not a Colnago paint finish I recognize, but it COULD be original. The fades are very well done, however if you look at the chips on the bottom bracket they do have the look of quite a thin, brittle paint finish. Are the decals on top of the paint, or under the top coat?

The head lugs and the fork crown were chrome plated on this model. It's maybe still underneath, but probably bitten away by time and rust hence the modern paint finish. I estimate its worth about £2-300 in its current condition. Ebay will tell you the real value if you have the balls to list it in auction.

There are shed loads. My lbs is full of creaking carbons, it seems only Trek and Giant have been reliably able to machine and engineer BB30 kit to sufficient tolerances that DON'T creak.

This kit will probably sell well, to all the rest.

Afaik the Carbone '9' refers to 4 off seat stays (constructed in two sections) 2 chain stays and 3 main tubes. Alloy forks were Vitus's 'thing'!!

Also the bottom bracket is probably chamfered at 45 degrees to take a Mavic/Vitus sealed bottom bracket. I remember we had a tool to do this in the shop, but that was a very long time ago...

£50 is okay, for what you're getting, but a decent steel (chrome would be my choice) fork is going to set you back another £50-120.

I'm always suspicious of a frame with no fork, as its generally a result of a head on collision which can trash the fork but leave the frame cosmetically intact.

Have the bike checked for tracking when it's built up though.

If it hasn't been done already, replace the steel grub screw with a stainless steel one (a few quid in your local hardware store). Original screws had a very bad habit of bonding into the frame, meaning a mess with a drill and retapping disasters, which often go fatally wrong!

I'd take a stab at a Martrac. They made some pretty funky track rigs. Very clean fillet brazing of seat strays reminiscent of one I used to own. Is the bb fillet grazed? They had a thing for mixing Reynolds and Columbus tubesets, which explains the 27.2/Italian bracket. Where did you get it?

It has the look of a Brian Rourke about it, but without any more details hard to say. 86 almost certainly year of manufacture.

You could mug it up as a Team Pro. It seems to be a trend on eBay at the moment. So you'd have to paint the forks/stays same colour as the frame and a black band on the seat tube, decal set/531 decal. Going by recent sales you could get £2-300 for it.

Personally I'd keep it, as Raleighs of this era are definitely going 'Ford Capri' in terms of collectors/eroica/kitsch British.

I'd plump for Gran Sport myself. That had a shocking puke orange paint finish which was metallic and rusted pretty easily. Hence the respray.

The Wheelcraft decals should come off pretty easily and there are loads of Raleigh decal sets on eBay for £7.99, probably worth part renovating it.