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The “Emotional One”... NOW FINISHED (pic heavy)1983 Raleigh Burner GS (Phase 1)

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deeman:
Nice one Ant....you can't put a price on memories! I bet you soon changed the old Grifter grips pretty sharpish bitd!! the reason I cannot ever sell my PR again is mainly sentimental. It was one of the few things my dad (RIP) got involved in with me....I remember he skinted himself to buy me the frameset second hand as he knew how unhappy I was with my heavy Taiwanese Dragon Freestyler. I can remember the trip to Mud Machine (M-Zone) in Croydon where we bought the frameset...….writing to Peter Rose of PR Racing to get some new decals and fooking up the first set as I was too impatient to get them on....receiving one of the first pairs of white Haro multi surface when they came out....my Sharp XC grips....first fitting my spinner and the difference it made to my riding......the list goes on!!  :daumenhoch:

factory pilot:

--- Quote from: deeman on August 08, 2018, 12:18 AM ---Nice one Ant....you can't put a price on memories! I bet you soon changed the old Grifter grips pretty sharpish bitd!! the reason I cannot ever sell my PR again is mainly sentimental. It was one of the few things my dad (RIP) got involved in with me....I remember he skinted himself to buy me the frameset second hand as he knew how unhappy I was with my heavy Taiwanese Dragon Freestyler. I can remember the trip to Mud Machine (M-Zone) in Croydon where we bought the frameset...….writing to Peter Rose of PR Racing to get some new decals and fooking up the first set as I was too impatient to get them on....receiving one of the first pairs of white Haro multi surface when they came out....my Sharp XC grips....first fitting my spinner and the difference it made to my riding......the list goes on!!  :daumenhoch:

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Hahaha! Yes ... the grips were the first to go .. I desperately wanted Oakley but the paper round only raised enough for Fuan’s!  ;)
A great story mate .. thanks for sharing  fistblump

BMX1973:
Very cool.  :coolsmiley: Great story.  :4_17_5:

Can't wait to see it built up.  :)

factory pilot:
So it finally got finished for MK18 (Thank God)!
Every second of this has been incredible ( I can’t encourage you enough to do that bike you had as a kid ) ... so many memories and emotions came flooding back every step of the way...
I can’t thank SBD enough for getting the paint job soo right! ...
I don’t think I’ve enjoyed seeing a bike come together as much as this one ...
If it wasn’t for this I wouldn’t be here now and I wouldn’t have made so many amazing friends and had so many amazing memories since joining Radbmx!



I’ve done many builds but this is genuinely in my opinion the best I’ve ever done ...
There’s something about this build which makes it the “most right” of all the bikes I’ve done ... as so many commentated at MK .. it looked straight out of the box or straight from the shop floor from the Raleigh factory in Nottingham..
Judge for yourself ...
I just bloody love it and still can’t stop looking at it!
Cheers for looking and reading, Ant
























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Clean:
Ant,

This is one of my all time favourite builds ever on RAD.  :4_17_5:

I love your trademark attention to detail, and the quality of the output. The Pickle connection was equally important; chatting to you both about how it all came together was one of the highlights of my weend, quite honestly.  :smitten:

Seeing this at MK18 brought back so many fond memories of my misspent youth.   ;)

Build of the year for me. :daumenhoch:

Richie Clean.

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