Raleigh Caprice

B · From historians, makers and pressRoadster / utilityIn confirmed sources: Undated

Tony Hadland describes the Caprice as a Raleigh shopping bike but gives no year. It still needs confirming in a catalogue.

Photos

Purple Raleigh Caprice ladies' bicycle with cream tyres, a white sprung saddle and a square headlamp — The Raleigh Caprice.

Pink script transfers reading Caprice on one tube and by Raleigh on the other, on purple paint — Transfers: Caprice, and by Raleigh.

Purple chainguard with Caprice in pink script — Caprice on the chainguard.

Square headlamp above a cream head tube panel with a Raleigh heron badge — Headlamp and head badge.

Seat tube with pink pinstripes and an R crest transfer — Seat tube crest and pinstripes.

White sprung saddle with coil springs — White sprung saddle.

Photos: Garry Gregory. Each photo shows one bike, which may have been changed over the years.

Known components

None recorded yet. Our confirmed sources for this model don't list its parts. If you have a catalogue page or an original spec sheet, please send it in.

What the sources say

Year	Name · variant	Details	Source
Undated	Caprice	Shopping bike; no year given.	BikeBiz

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Sources

Last updated 19 October 2026. Every fact on this page comes from one of these.

BikeBiz: Tony Hadland, 'HISTORY: The Heron Evolves: Raleigh from 1975 to 2002'

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