Your Most Prized Bike (as a kid)

A green Raleigh Strika, it weighed an absolute tonne & was bomb proof.

It had a pedal back break anarl, which was mint for skids & the tyres never wore down either.

Happy days.
 


Wow. What did the computer do?

Sat-nav:lol:

A green Raleigh Strika, it weighed an absolute tonne & was bomb proof.

It had a pedal back break anarl, which was mint for skids & the tyres never wore down either.

Happy days.

My mate had one of those, no good for jumping ramps because you tend to peddle backwards just as you get to it.
Spot on about the tyres I can't ever remember him change a tyre.
 
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I had a Raleigh Arena - I think it was the only bike available at the time going by the fact that three more of my friends got one for Christmas the same year...

I rode it all over the place, all the time and used it for work when I used to paint wrought iron gates for my brother-in-law for my first job in 1985..! I used to cycle from Boldon to Washington every day.... then one day I went to the outhouse to get my bike in the morning and it was gone...! We'd had a problem with our telly and my mam had given the guy who fixed it my bike as payment...!!!!! :lol::lol::evil::evil:
 
I customised my Raleigh Chipper with Chopper handlbars and extended forks so you were laid back on it with the handlebars up aheight. I also painted it silver. It looked like a proper Hell's Angel pedal bike!

:cool::p
 
I remember riding to Ryhope beach on my chopper, from Farra with my mates. It used to take hours, felt like we’d been out all day on the bikes. It’s only about 5mile. Mates all had grifters, chippers and boxers. No bmx’s then.
Those choppers were lethal- the only bicycle that could do tankslappers.

Kuwahara Laserlite Teardrop frame all with upgraded parts, mostly bought from Kawasaki World - beat the shit out of the Raleigh Pro Burner.
Bourgeois!
 
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Raleigh Budgie to Chopper, then to my prized bike the Burner (Got rid of the pads, hards as), my mate who lived 2 doors down had a Grifter, use to leave it at ours all the time, so used that as well when he wasn't out with us.
 
Raleigh Budgie to Chopper, then to my prized bike the Burner (Got rid of the pads, hards as), my mate who lived 2 doors down had a Grifter, use to leave it at ours all the time, so used that as well when he wasn't out with us.
Budgie's were absolutely mint for wheelies!
 
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.
Exactly the same happened to me. NEVER lend your bike out. Mates are twats.
 
I remember riding to Ryhope beach on my chopper, from Farra with my mates. It used to take hours, felt like we’d been out all day on the bikes. It’s only about 5mile. Mates all had grifters, chippers and boxers. No bmx’s then.
Those choppers were lethal- the only bicycle that could do tankslappers.


Bourgeois!

Absolutely not, I started with a bog standard red Raleigh Burner and swapped/saved up to upgrade - I could ride the thing, do tricks/jumps unlike the rich kids that were useless.
 
Green Chopper original with wide as feck bars, round gear knob, heavy as feck and cool as feck. Me da fecked the red gear indicator deely before me first ride by quickly shifting it back n forwards when checking it over. I think it was deliberate the t**t.
 

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