Your Most Prized Bike (as a kid)



never had one. neither did my sister or brother.

me dad worked down the pit until 1963 when I was 13. we just couldnt afford it.

i had a great bogey though made with pram wheels.
 
I've been trying to remember. I think it was just sound effects, maybe a roar and possibly a laser sound?! Was cool as fuck like. Got nicked as well...from outside my house, whilst I went in for my tea!!
Shame it wasn’t a tracking device! I had a Raleigh medal road bike. Rode it for miles. Loaned it to loads of mates. Eventually got nicked outside 7-11 on north end road. Miss that bike.
 
I had a blue Raleigh Boxer that I loved but my most prized was my Raleigh Super Tuff Burner with Reynolds 531 oval tubing, that thing was the nuts :cool:.
 
Probably my Burner But I still remember the feeling when my dad rolled out a grifter for me. Upgrading from a striker.

Loved it. Me dad spray painted it too.
 
I had a white Raleigh Mag Burner with black skys, it was class and seemed fast as fuck, how I ironic I went on to support the lads......although I don't burn mags ;)
 
I was never that good with stunt bikes, but got a Raleigh Winner racer bike and nobody could beat me for speed:
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I remember wanting a new bike for a couple of years, but my parents held back because I was growing too fast. This seemed huge when I got it, but I still out grew it. It lived in my parents garage for years, until I loaned it to a mate at Uni. He didn't lock it up and it got nicked within a few weeks.
 
A bike ? I was lucky to get food.

Did get a bike though, when i was 14-15, i got a paper round and bought some old bone shaker from an old bloke. Had it about a year. No idea what make it was.
I'm sure my father used to use it to collect overspill coal from Monkton cokeworks.
 

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