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Had a Raleigh Mustang mk1 in black and red
Then a Raleigh Lizard so 90s it hurt!
http://www.bumblebeeauctions.co.uk/X...s/100_4029.jpg
Followed by a Raleigh max 1996.. Dam i was cool :D
Was always jealous of my mate of mine who had a muddy fox.
Another mate had an Apollo. his parents didnt love him.
What did you have ?
I had a striker, my mate had a grifter with 3 speed gear shift thing
Grifter with the rubber ends of the mud guard turned inside out to rub on the tyre and make a noise like an engine!!! :thumbs:
I had an emmelle cougar followed by a Raleigh activator and then a Carrara whatsit. My bike history sucks :D
Couple of playing cards and a peg = Actual motor.
Had many bikes but this was my fave from my childhood
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n...58be4c50_z.jpg
GT Tequesta. the paint had a marble effect on it looked good close up. My mate got it nicked for me when I let him borrow it :(
posh!Quote:
Originally Posted by chriscooke
Thats very much like my timberline i just soldQuote:
Originally Posted by Pablo13
I had a Raleigh Chipper, a Raleigh Chopper, A Raleigh Superburner, a Raleigh Arena, a Raleigh mountain bike of some description, which was white and red, and now I have an Emmelle mountain bike. Not a stunning selection, it has to be said :(
I genuinely miss that bike, used to go everywhere on it, and probably had my best best cycling moments on it. I.e. biggest jump, longest wheelie, furthest endo, etc.
I'd have it back in a heart beat, I've got a GT Zaskar now but I've gone and buggered up the steering geometry by putting the wrong forks on it. Its just not the same :cry:
I had a mate like that too :notworthy :wack:Quote:
Originally Posted by Deacon
it was so shit, Weighed more than the moon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pablo13
Strong as a ox mind :D
I had on of these bad boys, it was fcuking lethal.:nod:
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/6679/71tomahawk.jpg
Quote:
Originally Posted by danny-mac
just lean back and wheelie...until you fell off the back :)
i actually had a Budgie (even smaller more lethal version of the tommahawk), then a striker..in fact two of them :)
I had a Townsend
It was crap :wack:
i had one of these in grey, it was the best bike ever for jumping over my sisters lol
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VPb26dGE5P...0/PICT0189.JPG
Raleigh RSW11. 5th birthday. Stabilisers came off within three days. Bike was impaled on the railings of the big house at the bottom of the sloped road within the week :)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lcDalD63nt...400/strika.jpg
Raleigh Strika.
Mine was green, with the back pedal brake. Left curvy black lines along the road and wore tyres out in hours.
Was damn heavy and when everyone else got BMXs I couldn't keep up :(
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/blike-cycl...g/Hiedmann.jpg
So i never did the BMX thing and got a 5speed drop handled Heidemann. £80 new and I had to pay half of that :mad:
But like my S14 now, I had it for years, did massive mileage on it and just replaced bits as and when they wore out. Did bottom bracket, all the bearings, half a dozen chains, mangled a few derailleurs riding the quarries at Flappits near Bradford (easily keeping up with the BMX mob and oddly never buckling a wheel).
Took myself at age12 up to granny's house in Teesdale without telling anyone. 80miles, including 40 of those on the A1 :eek: but got there and back in the day. Bit dodgy really with hindsight, but didn't get killed.
School trip had me and a dozen others plus teacher riding over the Yorkshire Dales. When one of the 'big kids' bikes broke and his little flat bike spanner wouldn't fix it, I offered to help. Teacher's face was a peach when he found about 20kg of my dad's cast iron tools in my panniers.
I didn't understand about weight in those days :D
The bike was a trooper :nod:
Dad ran over my Strika, then got me a Grifter and I'd cycle with a pal who also had one. We'd play 'CHiPs' :wack: . Bike lasted me until I was 14 :eek: .
Best bike of my yoof was a second-hand Peugeot 10-speed racer, looked a lot like this: http://oldtenspeedgallery.com/blog/w...eot-uo8-02.jpg
Loved that bike, it was fast as fook and I used to enjoy racing mopeds on it (when I had a good run-up and tailwind...). I rode it into the ground. Eventually took it with me to uni where it got stolen, but to be honest it was completely knackered by then. I didn't really understand about maintenance, lol.
oops, double post.
My Favoritest ever bike :smitten:
http://www.singlespeed.at/vintagebic.../pb2001661.jpg
raleigh equipe 1980- 12 speed
I just loved it .... got rid of it when Mountain biking became the in thing ... Still miss it to this day, it was literally part of me ..... and I dont mean becuase the saddle was thin and wedged up my butt.
But I spent everyday on that bike, we were inseperable ....... If it wasnt for women, I think I would look her up marry her and have a couple of little pink girls bikes ...... then it would end in a messy divorce, she would take the pink bikes and my house and I would be left with some 2008 slapper of a Kona with peeling off stickers, thats great fun, but not good for me
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...ldbikes276.jpg
I had one of these :) with sound effects!!
Oh, that's cool! Looks familiar too! Reminds me of the Vektar,Quote:
Originally Posted by strawberryS14a
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8sP0UZhW_p.../vektar1_0.jpg
but I think that black one was out first. I had a Boxer!
http://www.vallins.net/bike/bikepic/boxer.jpg
:smitten:
No way man, Lizards were for squares!
I had a Mustang as well - black and white with the 'horse spec' fade :D
Then elevated to a Raleigh Mantis, which served me well through teh start of my proepr bike career, and took a LOT of lake jumping abuse. I learn to bunny hop on that bike :cool:
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No pics of my actual one but this googled image is pretty close bar colour. I loved my Raleigh Skyway. Mine was gold lacquered over the chrome and had black pads.
http://bmxsociety.com/uploads/monthl...6723_thumb.jpg
Pulled, what I thought at the time, some awesome stunts on it! Wheelies and everything!! (and we had a half pipe we went to play on :D Cue first broken bones...)
the best bike I ever had was a Raleigh Amazon. It had an amazing life and was used every day for years without fail. I had a speedo on it an had something like 6400 miles on it before it got knicked (for the first time).
My mum reported it to the police as a black bike:wack: it was infact a dark green:annoyed: so the police had no chance. About a year passed without seeing my beloved Amazon.
Then... one of the kids at school (who I knew of but didnt have much to do with) dad was a policeman, he was going through a room of unidentified loot collected from a recent house raid.
The bike caught his eye and he started fiddling with the speedo and saw this bike had covered 6400 miles.
He came home that evening and was telling his son (kid from school) about this bike which someone had apparetly done over 6000 miles on.
Some how, this kid had heard someone at school (me) had a bike with a massive amount of miles on it.
He came and found me at school the next day with the gleeful news that he knew of a bike with more miles than mine:whip: - to which I explained mine had been knicked:smash:. We put two and two together, I gave him my home phone number. The dad went back to to re-look at the bike for any identifiable marks, phoned me up and unbelievably - it was my bike:D:thumbs: Two days later I got it back:smitten:
The police then recomended getting the bake tagged - which they did for my by stamping my postcode to the underside of the crank. Another mate suggested writing my name and address on a piece of screwed up paper and wedge it in the handle bar tube accessable by removing the grip.
Unfortunately, it was only another couple of years until it was knicked again this time it was ~1995. Reported to the police but heard nothing.
Then, last year 2009, whislt walking past a local shop that sells second hand bikes something caught my eye - it was only a Raleigh Amazon:eek:
No speedo but I took a closer look - there were scratches I remembered and the underside of the crank had been shaved down to remove a tag. It was mine I was sure of it.
The grips were the original so I went in to speak to the shop owner - I convinced him to let me remove one of the grips just to see. Pulled off the right hand grip and there it was - a scrunched up peice of paper with my name and paretns address still wedged in the same place I placed it 14 years ago. :eek::D
I presume I could have demanded it back - but I didnt need another bike (and essentially it was a pretty shit bike). It was for sale for £15 and I am gutted I didnt buy it there and then. That bike and I were clearly linked by something:nod:
Sorry for the long story but to this day I still find it astonishing that a bike was knicked, found and identified by a curious policeman impressed by the miles it had covered. And that; that policemans son went to my school and knew of me only as the kid with a well used bike:wack:
Then to be knicked again and turn up 14 years later within 1/4mile from my house for sale.
ahh.. the memories:thumbs:
I always wanted a Raleigh Burner...the mag one..... a quick Google and :
http://www.evanscycles.com/products/...mpaign=froogle
Re-released! :cool:
I used to have a Raleigh Glider when I was younger and after that a Burner. The Burner was a great bike :D It used to have Skyways, Mushroom grips and Dia comp breake leavers and calipers.. until it got stollen by some wa*k*r outside Argos in Dunstable.. :(
Bloody hell. The number of memories that just came flooding back with that picture. I thought I was the coolest motherfucker in the world riding around on that, setting off sirens and bleepy sound effects. I didn't know who Samuel L Jackson was at the time, but I imagine he rode one too. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by strawberryS14a
First bike I can remember was a white Raleigh BMX with blue stickers and red pads, was brand new and would've been out in about 1987/88 I guess, can't find a reference to it anywhere on the 'net.
My mate had an older Burner and I constantly mocked him, my BMX was awesome.
Then got some POS brown Universal mountain bike from Toys R Us one Christmas which fell apart in about 3 months.
Then got a Raleigh Max with grey grips, saddle and tyres :cool: which lasted me until I got the Gary Fisher I ride around on now.
God that was fun just searching for them, so many good memorys :D
Hand me down from my brother :wack: Which I had more cuts and brusis from than anything else I can remember, Who ever thought bike this shape were a good idea probably went on to design maestros :D
http://is01.thegumtree.com/image/big/25492913.jpg
A Raleigh Burner, from a 2nd hand bike shop I was sooooo happy that day, even lifted ito onto the bottom of my bed so I could look at it , Sure my pads were blue but I remember the the name and the brace under the cross bar.
http://wifflelevertofull.files.wordp...pg?w=270&h=202
I had one of these heaps. A Raleigh Activator. I thought i was pimp as hell cruising around on one of these until the forks snapped.
http://media.dogsandpuppies.co.uk/fi...40-480x300.jpg
Had loads of BMXs. mostly built around the frames
S&M Mad dog.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...es/Maddog2.jpg
95 S&M Holmes
http://bmxsociety.com/uploads/monthl...9092_thumb.jpg
those are a couple of the oldies i had. The more recent frames that i would buy in an instant if i still could would be an original Hoffman Taj, a standard trail boss (not 250) and a Sunn 2bosse.
I had a chipper, chopper, Equipe and Diamond back all second hand.
Few years ago I bought a chipper at an auto jumble along with a 21"(?) racer frame and a chainsaw engine.
An afternoon of cutting had a raked frame long forked chipper...next day a centrifugal clutch driven chainsaw engine was put where crank was...got too excited..took it for a spin.
My life, 12k rpm chainsaw driven minibike:wack:
I'm just under 6ft...was fine until realised no brakes :facepalm: and almost ran me best mate and his Mrs over...point proven, project operational....NEXT!!
Bracing has gone on the re-issue. I guess they can make them stronger now. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by GAV200
I had various hand-me-downs 'til I was 14 then from 14 to 16 the only bike I had access to was my Mum's which had a :cool: wicker basket on the front. I got a bit of ribbing for that. :facepalm:
We used to clip bits of cardboard on to the frame with clothes pegs so they poked in the wheel spokes and made a clicking noise. :facepalm:
Ah, the innocence of youth.
My family clubbed together to buy me my first new bike for my 18th birthday - a blue Sun Solo racer with 10 gears. Over 30 years later I still use it to do the school run when I'm at home. Its starting to look a bit tatty now mind you but I reckon it will probably last me til I'm too old to ride a bike. :ken: ...unless some toerag nicks it.
That is too :cool: I always wanted one of those, alas santa never played ball :wack:Quote:
Originally Posted by strawberryS14a
My first mountain bike was a white Peugeot of some variety when I was about 5 or 6, moved on to my dream bike at the time, the Raleigh Lizard:
http://www.bumblebeeauctions.co.uk/X...s/100_4029.jpg
Out grew that and got a Raleigh Gritstone:
http://www.bumblebeeauctions.co.uk/X...s/100_8780.jpg
And then finally bought my Specialized Rockhopper FS when I was 15 which I still have to this day (should upgrade sometime):
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ix3-nIDJyoQ/Sq...pecialized.JPG
this thread just brought back a bunch of memories.
That one with the sound effects, i had totally forgotten that they existed!!!! awesome.
i had:
Raleigh burner,
some apollo thing with disk wheels, i was jealous of my mates that had spokes, until i crashed, smashing one disks revealing SPOKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i then smashed them all off!:cool:
that bike broke so i then had an emmelle thing which was awful! that got stolen.
then i had a muddy fox explorer mega! Which i first got into real mountain biking with. 1st real air and 1st bunny hop! We gave it to our neighbour who still uses it:)
Then my 1st real mountain bike, a Specialized Rockhopper, the last of the cromo frames, was metallic blue and im gutted i ever sold it as it rode so well!
then i got a sunn dual +, which snapped a few times an insurance got me my Specialized S works DH (2001) Sadly, after ten years of fun memories a crack appeared in the headtube in Whistler, so she was sent back to her maker, and that is how i ended up where i am now, with a stunning 2009 demo 7 as a warranty replacement:):thumbs:
I had a grifter, a burner and a chopper.
The older kids always took interest in the 'alloy' wheels (?) on my chopper.
Then it was stolen.....
Nice thread. My first bike was a Rocky 10
Followed by a nice blue Raleigh Tomahawk. I wrercked the front of that bike by doing jumps.
Then I had a Blue Mini Burner (not mine in pic)
http://www.re-buy-cycle.co.uk/uploads/306/L/0.jpg
I wrecked that bike too, by doing jumps.
After that I went mountain bike with a 15 speed Peugeot Lynx. I was the first in the area to get a Mountain bike. A year later, the Raleigh Mustang came out, but was only 10 speed.
That got pinched so I had a 1991 Giant Stonebreaker (not mine in pic)
http://www.radforum.de/gallery/files...007_12_253.JPG
I rode that poor bike into the ground so when I was 14 I started saving for a Kona Cindercone like this, a 1993 model, without the ridiculous seat:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i2FiMjJenW.../Complete7.jpg
I snapped the frame so I had it replaced with a 1998 frame under warranty, which I still have and is my 'hybrid' style bike now.
I also have a Boardman Pro HT for off the beaten track.
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...7m60wMASuAHHQ=
I loved the Tomahawk. Such a cool litttle bike. I had one for a little while, but then moved up to my marlboro medallion 5 speed racer when I was 10.
Had loaaaads,
Notable one's...
When aged 3 - Raleigh Wolf Cub
After that, it's a bit rubbish due to growing more so I had real cheap rubbish ones til I was...
12, when I got a Sarecen, which didn't last long due to being rubbish and expensive
12, Specialized Hardrock
13, Haro F4 Bmx
14, Hoffman Rhythm Pro Bmx,
17, Pinnacle Camino jump bike
20, Stolen Stereo frame with loads of £££ parts on it. :wack:
Now, 21, I'm getting a 'The Make' Niki Croft frame and transferring all my stuff on it. :)
i had one but in blue with sound effectsQuote:
Originally Posted by strawberryS14a
may of been slightly diffrent but was damn cool
it also made me tear a whole in my knee falling off
If my memory serves me correctly then i believe my first proper bike was one of these:
http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/w...dom/nbta9h.jpg
Apparently a Raleigh Burner (all i can remember is that it was White, Red and had padding on the horizontal beam :wack:)
Top thread! LOL at the Apollo's!! We had a mate like that too. IIRC he crashed it while testing it in the shop so his parents had to buy it!! :wack:
Had loads of BMX's with the earliest one being a Universal (maybe 1988?), then a few other random ones then after one got nicked from school my Dad claimed on the house insurance and I got a totally awesome new Redline BMX (1992?) with pegs!
I remember my older brother having a Raleigh Equip racer and putting straight handlebars on it. That was :cool:
Got a Raleigh Banana racer for a birthday and thought I was the absolute bee's knee's!! :D I also remember getting carried away with the speed :wack: and then going flying over the handlebars into heavy traffic after grabbing too much front brake. :facepalm: :o
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/files/banana_4_162.jpg
That Banana still looks :cool: :nod: