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jimwise68:

--- Quote from: rulerâ„¢ on March 19, 2007, 01:31 PM ---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.

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Gra, I think you are getting wrapped up in a desirable bike. No one thinks a burner is desirable or good. They were shite and weighed the same as a small country, but we didn't know that back in the early days as there was nothing to compare it to, it was just an insight of things to come

But in 1982/83 when most people were riding beaten up grifters or racers with bars turned up or racers with cow horns. This little blue and yellow bike was something from another planet.


That is what makes it an icon cos it changed what kids wanted and put BMX on the map for a whole generation of kids.

theRuler:
yeh iconic for 82/83

1 year

not the 80's!!!

i think i rode for too long.

did people who rode before the rise of the burner want one?

jimwise68:
 :LolLolLolLol:

It may have only been for a year or two, but it helped kickstart the BMX generation in this country. So it HAS to be an Icon for that reason alone.

I would have killed for one BITD, i only had a red and yellow MK1 burner.  :'(

I think you are just denying yourself your love of Tuffs!  ;D

theRuler:
tuffs were the best thing about that bike.

the bikes i would have killed for were the smart ones in the mags
like the kuwis and the gooses

i remember wanting a burner, but that was because they were actually in the shops, and fairly affordable. but really all i wanted was just a "bmx". and i got one. a right POS from a garage or somewhere. but after 1 year of riding, wanting a burner was the last thing on my mind.

i see what you mean about iconic though. to the masses (who rode for like 10 minutes) the raleigh burner was bmx. on the other hand, to the masses, "streetdance" is probably an "iconic" hiphop track from the 80's. i guess i just can't see it from a layman's point of view.

jimwise68:

--- Quote from: ruler™ on March 19, 2007, 05:24 PM ---
on the other hand, to the masses, "streetdance" is probably an "iconic" hiphop track from the 80's. i guess i just can't see it from a layman's point of view.

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PMSL that kinda sums it up!

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