Nostalgic thread Does anyone remember the Raleigh Activator?

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  • smitty
    smitty Posts: 125
    yeah one of my good mates had one not a bad starter bike ,if a bit on the heavy side
  • shuffer
    shuffer Posts: 2
    I bought one of these from Halfords in about '94 to commute to work over some relatively rough ground. The pedal arm began to grate in the crank after about a week and eventually came off whilst I was halfway home one evening. Took it back to Halfords who replaced the part and refitted it, but it happened again (there was famously not enough spindle thread on the Activator 2). Halfords refused to replace the bike or refund as it had been used over fairly rough terrain, so I had to carry a sprocket wrench on every journey and listen to when the grating became loud enough to suggest that the whole thing was going to fall off and needed a tighten. And the thing was bastard heavy too, with the suspension really offering nothing beyond a gimmick.

    Needless to say, that was the last Raleigh I ever bought. And the last bike I ever bought from Halfords too. Shame for both of them as I've turned over about seven new bikes since then and dropped thousands of quid.......

    Do yourself a favour and avoid wherever possible.
  • daveyshadow
    daveyshadow Posts: 1
    I am about to go out on my 1982 Activator - the green one. It is still going strong although I am replacing it for Christmas. :D
  • ricardo_smooth
    ricardo_smooth Posts: 1,281
    I had an original one before I got my GT timberline in 07........ I cut it in half with a hacksaw and took it to the skip!!!!
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    I got my rigid Raleigh at more or less the same time as everyone else was going nuts for the Activator 2... I got slagged at school for not having any suspension, then we'd go riding and it'd run rings round all the lardy, uncontrolled Activators. ****-all use to anyone, they were...
    Uncompromising extremist

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