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Most iconic bike of the 80's
theRuler:
i like the burner restos i see on here
i have big respect for anyone that takes any bike and restores it to such mint condition. whether it be a burner, or a hutch. same deal
but to say a burner is the iconic bike of the 80s . . . waaaaah?
did you spend that decade hankering after a tuff (or TOUGH as it turns out) burner?
oberonspacefruit:
burners may have only been about for a year round your end gra! and maybe in the shops for a year......
But i tell you man, up here they were around for a lot longer that that....my thigh muscles still bear the scars.....
they were the main bike on the estate that i lived on, i never saw a kuwahara, ripper, ta, even a goose.
they were groundbreaking in terms of the bikes that the local kids had, looked way better, and performed way better than all the choppers, grifters, cowhorn bikes that were there contemporaries.
i never got a new burner, but spent 5 years swapping, upgrading, and restoring my way up the burner heirachy, red mk1, gold tuff burner, chrome burner etc....
I suppose it would be ok if your parents presented you with a nice new ripper on christmas morning, but mine would say "whats wrong with the one you got?"
the argument of "well the geometery is all over the place" would have got me a slap!
burners were icons for some of us.
i restored a mk1 recently, and took it to the skatepark, and there was no way on gods earth i would even consider riding over the lip of the ramp....it felt like it would snap as as soon as the wheel went over the coping.
but as a memory, of what got me into bmx, and got me into it again years later, unfortunately, has raleigh stamped all over it.
OrgasmDonor:
i had a GHP all top bollox on it and then snapped the frame, while it was gettin repaired i used a burner frame along with all my bits and it rode particulaly well, along with the GHP pro forks and tonne weight frame it actually felt invincable and served me well till the geezy was repaired. i nearly bought a caravan!!!!!!!! :LolLolLolLol:
theRuler:
--- Quote from: oberonspacefruit on March 19, 2007, 08:31 AM ---i never got a new burner, but spent 5 years swapping, upgrading, and restoring my way up the burner heirachy, red mk1, gold tuff burner, chrome burner etc....
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5 years of burner ownership?
you were on a burner in 1987?
oberonspacefruit:
erm, yeah, i left school in 88, and i got the twip toptube mystery in the 5th year, just before i left.
give or take a year.
i hated the first ones i had though.
the red one came as a scratched up f+f and lacked any of the wild colours of the new burners.
by the time id traded up by swapping shit, it was a reasonably decent bike.
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