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RATTY:
I LOVE BURNERS (Well burning burners >:D)


I have to agree bashing burners is so last year, I had egg on my face when beard beat me on a Burner :tickedoff:  :tickedoff:

dwain dibbly:
if burners were never made how many of us would have got into bmx??
coming from a northern pit town in the 80's in the middle of the miners strike
you were lucky if you had a burner :-[ :-[
and who the hell had even heard of geometry when they were 12 or 13yrs ???

i have a bedroom full of top end frame sets that i couldn't have dreamed of owning
when i was a kid but i do have a special place for burners :smitten:

why are we all on this site? nostalgia?

 "definition"
Nostalgia: describes a longing for the past, often in idealized form.

is that not what old school bmx is all about?
id say a massive % of us had burners so look back at them with fondness
for what they were.

lmmrst:

--- Quote from: spillers#1 on February 15, 2008, 10:39 PM ---Well my first bmx was a hawk scorcher from woolworths  :) and i f**kin loved it  :daumenhoch:

--- End quote ---
Like this then? Hubby longed for another!  :smitten: :smitten:
I had a second hand iron horse!  :'( :'( But like you say beggars couldnt be choosers! I still did tricks and broke the damn thing!  :LolLolLolLol: lis

RATTY:
Thankfully I got my Mongoose before Raleigh jumped on to the BMX bandwagon with their badly designed and poorly equipped money spinner.
I have never had a problem with burner owners but with Raleigh itself, they were a world leading and respected manufacturer who abused that position by producing the burner. It wasnt rocket science to get the geometry right (or not so badly wrong).
They spent thousands assembling a great team of riders, but how many factory riders actually rode production frame sets??

Dont get me wrong the Burner is a huge part of UKMX history, but how such a shite design has become iconic beats me

meticulous:
i cannot stop pissing myself at the comments, you never know, at this rate the rear engined skodas will be classic and collectable, but i bet every owner deep down knows what a piece of shit they were, and every owner will know they do also have a place, crushed into a 3ft square box.
i think we need a cool wall as on top gear, and i personaly will put the halfords turbo at the top, with the pissflap burner bike, called so because every muggy c**ts got one.
 now im going out to buy a skoda to bring down to MK08 :2funny:
 

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