what did you have??

mr joey

hi all,just sat here googleing old bikes from the past raleigh budgie,wildcat,vektar,bomber,grifter,tomahawk etc took me back,just wondering what bike you had when you were young and what you remember about it??

Northwind

I had a Raleigh Marauder Index. 18 speed and the first index shifter at my school. Heavy as hell, terrible tyres, wheels that bent if you looked at them funny, and the paint all fell off. But I loved that bike, took great care of it, flogged it eventually and put the money towards the carrera tange tube rigid I've still got in the garage today 20 years on. Lovely.

mr joey

just looked at it northwind looks a beast!

weescott

I had a Raleigh Burner just like this one:


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Raleigh-Burner-BM ... 3a5e6db0a3

hmmm

Bignige

A Chipper, a Chopper (I rubbed the warning off the band on the seat warning against carrying passengers and told everyone it was a special edition for giving buggy rides) and then moved on to a Halfords Olympic 5-speed which I eventually fitted mahoosive cow horns.........remember those all you 40+ riders....!!!

upinsmoke

Raleigh Commando (Always wanted a Boxer though), Raleigh Super Burner, Rebel Freestyler (White with orange skyways - was ace)

sniper68

Tomahawk
Striker
Grifter
Various racers(before they were called roadbikes) all had the drops binned to be fitted with Cow-horns 8) All ragged around the local woods with skinny slicks on
Raleigh-burner with mag wheels(superburner?)
8)

chedabob

Had a Raleigh Firefly from 11 years old. Still got it but it's now my hack bike.

Also had a Universal Full-sus (BSO :P looked like every other BSO full-sus). Lasted a grand total of 2 months before I pringled the rear wheel. Would have cost more to replace the wheel than I paid for the bike so I chucked it :P

Andy525

Bignige wrote:

which I eventually fitted mahoosive cow horns.........remember those all you 40+ riders....!!!

and having the brakes the wrong way around and half way down the bars as the cables wouldn't reach.


Andy

Bignige

Andy525 wrote:

Bignige wrote:

which I eventually fitted mahoosive cow horns.........remember those all you 40+ riders....!!!

and having the brakes the wrong way around and half way down the bars as the cables wouldn't reach.


Andy

LMAO .......Mine were so wide they wouldn't fit down the alley at the back of our house....my dad only got them for me as I kept rotating the drop bars upwards.

Mi2terE

I had a 3 speed Raleigh drop - rode it to death
Then a Bomber - great fun
Tried most of the above, as we all had different bikes, was great growing up through the 70's and 80's.

First and still my fav real mountian bike was a Kona Cinder Cone Joe Murray in Black. Give me my old cinder cone joe murray with my bar ends, foot straps and no suss - slamming down hills as a young man, hands barely touching the bars as they vibrate between your pinkies, vision all shaking reading the trail every god damn inch of it and grinning all over your ugly mug when you make it in one piece.

Having a bike you could throw over fencing and let go of, slamming the front brakes on and letting the puppy roll as you practice the rip foot out of straps step off to the side and run as the bike rolls off. Not a buckle not a dent. Lots of offs some funny some funny with pain. No faggy fashion, colour schemes and not even a helmet - but gloves yes must have gloves fingerless, oh and money for a cider when passing a pub.

I've since as an older rider realized, whilst my new bike has plenty of mod cons and upgrades, and riders with their full suss would kill us now on the downhills their is one downgrade that no new bike on the planet could cater for and that's me :-) I'm finally the weakest link on my bike :-) but its all still good fun, just not as mad :P funny how old bikes bring back good memories

PS what was the bike you would pedal backwards on to brake, like a bmx size, they were mad as kids, rear tire killers, but great for sideways skidding :-)

thel33ter

Only 14 but been through a few, some random little red bike (fantastic fun, loved it till my dad rode it and broke it )

A never used horrible Raliegh thing.

And then a 2001 Marin Shoreline Trail full-sus. It had a tiny 13.5" frame so it rode like a bouncy BMX, and suprisingly light considering it had nearly Appolo level components on it. Got me into riding.

Then I got my Kona, then my Trek, and tonight I just bought an Enduro

Not bad really

cooldad

In no particular order.

This one:



Eddie Lawson replica

And this one



Mike Hailwood replica

And this one



Triton

I had one of these, highly modified, with Yoshimura racing kit, gusseted frame, and beautiful custom pearlsecent paintwork. A replica of the one Wes Cooley won the AMA Superbike championship in 1978. Except mine was white and orange.



But if you meant bicycles, only got into that recently although when I was a kid I always wanted a Chopper.

cooldad

thel33ter wrote:

Only 14 but been through a few, some random little red bike (fantastic fun, loved it till my dad rode it and broke it )

Sorry about that. But I blame those weak plastic wheels.

Bignige

Ok...so on the subject of 2 wheels and an engine...another one for the over 40's..

AP50 or FS1E.....Mine was an AP with a big bore kit.....60cc 55mph when flat on the tank

8)

sniper68

Bignige wrote:

Ok...so on the subject of 2 wheels and an engine...another one for the over 40's..

AP50 or FS1E.....Mine was an AP with a big bore kit.....60cc 55mph when flat on the tank

8)

Ah the fizzie.I had a 1976 unrestricted one with pedals

Bignige

ibbo68 wrote:

Bignige wrote:

Ok...so on the subject of 2 wheels and an engine...another one for the over 40's..

AP50 or FS1E.....Mine was an AP with a big bore kit.....60cc 55mph when flat on the tank

8)

Ah the fizzie.I had a 1976 unrestricted one with pedals

Yellow or purple??

Anonymous

My first bike -



Note the triple clamp forks, well ahead of it's time.

Then I had a Raleigh Marauder. The first one they made in blue and white, no Indexed gears, like Northwind's.

After that it was a Muddy Fox Courier Mega, that lasted me till I was 16, bent it's ridgid forks and brought a Yamaha DT50 with money I'd saved up from a Saturday job at McDonalds.

upinsmoke

ibbo68 wrote:

Tomahawk
Striker
Grifter
Various racers(before they were called roadbikes) all had the drops binned to be fitted with Cow-horns 8) All ragged around the local woods with skinny slicks on
Raleigh-burner with mag wheels(superburner?)
8)

Burners were usually Blue. Super Burner was gold (Chrome with gold plasti-cote) Tuff Burners had Skyway tuff II mag wheels. There a Super Tuff Burner as well.

sniper68

Bignige wrote:

ibbo68 wrote:

Bignige wrote:

Ok...so on the subject of 2 wheels and an engine...another one for the over 40's..

AP50 or FS1E.....Mine was an AP with a big bore kit.....60cc 55mph when flat on the tank

8)

Ah the fizzie.I had a 1976 unrestricted one with pedals

Yellow or purple??

It was purple originally but The tank was dented so I bought a blue one off a later model(79ish) so we sprayed the side panels to match 8)
Also welded the pedals in a fixed foward position 8)
It was 8 years old when I bought it in 1984 off my cousin for £15 8) Sold it to a mate a year later and bought an LC350 ypvs :twisted: :twisted: Had 4 or 5 of them 8)

cooldad

On the subject of Fizzies, my first was one of these:



1969 Kreidler Florette 50cc

The first time I rode it to school, my 'friends' christened it The Flying Tampax. The name stuck.

SPIRO

Had a grifter, amazing bike.

Made of pig iron, weighed the same as a small planet and would be the only thing left apart from cockroaches after a nuclear war.

Reminded me of the toyota truck on Top Gear - i just couldn't kill it :shock:

F@RRR

in the early 80's I had a weird bike( Italian make i think ) bit like a Grifter but with two thin crossbar tube and a fat down tube and double crown suspension forks that had about 40 mm of travel , then moved on to a Raleigh roadrunner , 1st ATB was a pink and black Peugot. ended up with a marin bear valley se with manitou forks, full XT and lots of bling bits.then i passed my driving test and the bike riding gave way to the car

t0pc4t

a raleigh ultra burner

[img]http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:8zRQrZBRdypF4M:http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd252/BENDYCAT/22-1.jpg&t=1 and a raleigh mustang which I can't find a picture of[/img]

sniper68

My mate had some weird American chopper thing called (IIRC) a Mobo-cross,then he had a Bomber.

mr joey

god there"s some old bikes on here,good to see some pics too,who did the lolly pop in the back wheel as if it was a motorbike!!! just had a look at the raleigh vaktar on youtube with the sounds totally forgot you could even get the radio on it now that did take me back

cee

I had...

a yellow boxer.
a red grifter
a white mag burner
a blue and yellow emmelle cougar!

Raphe

One of my most distinct childhood memories is getting my first ever new bike, a red and yellow Raleigh Burner. It sat in our spare room for a week before Christmas and I spent hours just looking at it.

At that time it seemed like Raleigh was the only bikes you could get, certainly in the shops round our way.

tsenior

grifter here as well, indestrucatble

i used to do a ghostie run where id ride it towards what was basically a small cliff, grab onto an overhanging branch and be left dangling there as the bike sailed over the edge and into a river.

Northwind

RichardSwt wrote:

My first bike -



Note the triple clamp forks, well ahead of it's time.

Is that a Strika? I had a green one of those. It was well tuned, every part of it rattled in perfect time. Back pedal rear brake for maximum skidness!

Splottboy

Was a Spacemaster, no idea what make. 1968.

You could lower/raise the bars/saddle with QR and had a rear rack, but great bike.
Metallic ruby red.

Hub rear brake, Sturmey Archer 3 speed. Took me over to Penarth, all over Cardiff, inc Penylan Quarry and the Lambies, " off - roading."

Resprayed it Metallic Tangerine and my older brother didn't put ALL the headset bearings back in. Front steerer tube snapped in two racing a mate in Splott.

Had extended Chopper forks, rear seatrest - fur trimmed - and other LA Custom details!