omega0684
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| posted on 12/9/09 at 11:12 AM |
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how many of you were teenagers in the 80's
just been watching the gadget show re-run and they did a special report on mountain bikes and bmx's and mentioned to most popular bikes of the
the Rally burner and the Specialized stunt jumper! as i was only born in 84 i didn't have any of these but just wondered if any of you did or
your friends!
tell your tails!
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Guinness
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| posted on 12/9/09 at 11:43 AM |
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I had both! Although not at the same time!
Raleigh Super Burner, made from cast iron girders with plastic mag wheels, stunt pegs and trick parts. Weighed a ton, but must have covered 30,000
miles on that thing. Went everywhere on it.
Then bought a Spec Stumpjumper when I was 16, the frame bent 3 months later. They gave me a new Stumpy Pro frame as a replacement. Used that bike
every day back and forth to 6th form, parties, weekend job (working in a bike shop), then between 6th form and uni did 5 months as a cycle courier!
Then every day back and forth to uni for 3 years! Must have done another 30,000 miles on that thing!
Mike
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Nash
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| posted on 12/9/09 at 11:47 PM |
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Didn't have th burner but I did have the Raleigh Grifter! Loved that bike. By the time I'd finished with it it had on more miles then a
Space Shuttle and looked like it had been through Re-Entry without the heat sheld!
Heady days! Thanks for the memories. I was 15 in 1980 BTW
....Neil
It's What You Do Next That Counts.
Build It, Buy It, Drive It:
Southern Kit Car Club
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RoadkillUK
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| posted on 12/9/09 at 11:55 PM |
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Wasn't the Grifter made of granite? If I remember rightly it was a little heavy 
I had an 'extra burner' I flew more miles than I rode on it 
I know my mum has a pic of me, my brother and my neighbour on the bikes on Christmas Day, must have been 13 at the time, we were probably wearing
brown ... or orange
Stolen Pic
P.S. It's red and white not pink
Roadkill - Lee
www.bradford7.co.uk
Latest Picture (14 Sept 2014)
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keithice
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| posted on 13/9/09 at 02:24 AM |
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16 yrs old in 1980. living in the uk for the first time on my own.... no money for a new bike....
Smile and wave boys.... Smile and wave....
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 13/9/09 at 07:00 AM |
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Born in 1980, had the Puch (Raleigh?) bmx... I pedalled it moved 
Yeah it was all orange and brown in the 80's, I don't understand what these kids see in it. All I remember is brown, Maggie Thatcher Milk
Snatcher, and every bugger on strike.
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MautoK
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| posted on 13/9/09 at 06:41 PM |
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quote:
how many of you were teenagers in the 80's
-1 
He's whittling on a piece of wood. I got a feeling that when he stops whittling, something's gonna happen. (OUATITW/Cheyenne)
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coozer
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| posted on 13/9/09 at 07:00 PM |
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Hmm, rich kids eh? for me it was either a Grifter or a chopper,.. the Grifter was heavy to pedal along if I remember rightly..
The chopper got racer forks and a chopper back wheel on the front. Made it a bit wheely happy(over the back), but what the hell cool as
fffffff...
Then there was the roller skate split in two and screwed to a bit of plywood, instant skateboard!
Problem for me was by 13 I was on motorbikes over the pit heaps dreaming of a Montesa or Bultaco....
Then the pub beckoned when I was 14, never looked back
[Edited on 13/9/09 by coozer]
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 13/9/09 at 07:31 PM |
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My christmas present in 1969 was a full frame 5 speed Raleigh Sun Racer - I was 9 years old so wooded blocks were screwed onto the pedals, which was
fine until I got to traffic lights where I could balance for 3 seconds and the promptly fell over! By 12 the wooden blocks were off and I was blasting
all over Cornwall. roads were safer than and paedo's hadn't been invented.
By 16 it was fairly worn out and got sold and contributed to the purchase of my Honda SS50 - but thats a different story!
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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smart51
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| posted on 13/9/09 at 07:50 PM |
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I had a chopper and a friend had a grifter. The grifter was so heavy and so hard to pedal we called the the grafter. never heard of either of these
two though. I graduated to racing bikes when I was 14. BMXes were for ne're do wells and idiots.
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nick205
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| posted on 13/9/09 at 08:38 PM |
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Ahhhh! Now we're talking.
I had the following icons of pedal power...
Raleigh Tomahawk (Junior Chopper)
Raleigh Burner (always wanted Mag wheels though)
Raleigh Chopper (cool, but rubbish)
Raleigh Grifter (flip that front mud flap onto knobbly tyre for motoX engine sound - until bollocked by Dad for wrecking mud flap)
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 14/9/09 at 06:16 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by nick205
Ahhhh! Now we're talking.
I had the following icons of pedal power...
Raleigh Tomahawk (Junior Chopper)
Raleigh Burner (always wanted Mag wheels though)
Raleigh Chopper (cool, but rubbish)
Raleigh Grifter (flip that front mud flap onto knobbly tyre for motoX engine sound - until bollocked by Dad for wrecking mud flap)
I had all of these apart from the Raleigh Burner. My brother did have a Raleigh Commando though.
I had a Mk2 Chopper with T bar gear lever. Ssadly it didn't have dérailleur gears, but instead a 3 speed Spermy* Archer that would slip at any
given opportunity leaving you with impaled gonads. Have you seen how much original Choppers are fetching now? 
*the cause of much mirth back then
[Edited on 14/9/09 by MikeRJ]
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 16/9/09 at 07:11 AM |
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I had a Raleigh Grifter which I had for many years, it seemed very heavy compaired to the BMX's but I liked my 3 gears. It was a tough bike and
I only ever snapped the pedal off which hurt me a lot
Looking at it now it seems a spindily thing tbh and I'm sure its tiny and weights nothing. I'd love to sit on one again and have a go,
thats if I'd even fit on it now A bit like going into a primary school and looking at the seats…wtf their tiny!
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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Simon
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| posted on 17/9/09 at 04:24 PM |
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Raleigh Chopper with derailleurs (5speed) followed by Raleigh Arena.
Now have Giant Boulder.
ATB
Simon
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hobzy
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| posted on 18/9/09 at 11:23 AM |
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I had a raleigh blazer - striker back wheel, smaller front wheel and Chopper bars.
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No gears. I remember the brakes were awesome and I could do huge skids on it. Drove my dad nuts with needing new tyres. Then I got a Burner - did a
few races at the track and then it got nicked from the scout hut.
Grandad felt sorry for me and bought me a new bike - a Sun Solo 5 speed racer. Did London to Brighton and was hooked and started saving for a decent
road bike.
I always remember my mates grifter had that hypnotic ticking sound from the Sturmey rear gears - tick tick ticky tick ticky ticky tick tick. That and
trying to jump it in the bombhole in the woods and the forks snapping
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