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jimwise68:

--- Quote from: oberonspacefruit on March 19, 2007, 08:31 AM ---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.

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Amen brother!  :daumenhoch:

theRuler:
jesus.
where i lived, 100's of kids got burners in 83

by xmas 84 99% had stopped riding

those that continued all upgraded to better bikes
by "better" i am talking superfox, dp, rickman - that kind of better
not TA's though. there was the odd GT about. and maybe a haro or 2. oh and few gooses.

i ended up with most of them :)

in the gang i rode with in 85-87 it was dp's and fox's (there was a shop not too far away that had the MT range.)

oh i did ride with a kid who had a mk2 burner, but he never had a mk1 burner. started off on the mk2.
and another mate had an old DB silver streak.

another riding buddy of mine had a zapper, then a rickman

after 87 it was just me on my own really. i rode my fox until it bent/cracked, then a gen one haro. i rode with a skateboard gang on ghetto ramps.

we were kinda influenced by what we saw in action bike.

hence the alloy wheels. as that was what was in action bike, after 85.

i always wanted a burner before i had a bmx, as they were in the shops
but after riding a year, and reading the mags, no one wanted them. fook knows what happened to them all. there must be loads of them kicking around somewhere in stafford. in the late 80's they were literally worthless. the tuff's on them were fooked after a year's hard riding, and the bikes were too hoopty to use a base for anything worthwhile

the mk2 burner showed promise when they "went for it with chromo aero tubes" - we expected a raleigh TA. however they must have gone for it in the lead factory as the mk2's seemed even heavier than the mk1's.

jT Racing:
i was stuck on my burner for 3.5 years or so. A mate put me out of my misery ny donating a F+F. The F+F was the only burner bits left on it by then.

Frosty:
was the same in my neck of the woods, burners,choppers etc.

Of the high end bikes I can only recall some richo (local landlords boy - who moved down from Rom) he had a TA, that was it, everything else started as a burner, falcon pro or something else and gradual upgrades of components and the odd f+f (DP etc) to a much better stead, but had never seen a hutch or ripper etc in the flesh!!

OrgasmDonor:
if you look at this thread from a different angle, then one of THE most iconic bikes of the eighties has got to be mr fiolas yellow gt, everyone can picture that bike in an instant im sure, i dont think anyones bike stood out as much as that initially did BITD.

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