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davevilla:
Just found this blast from the past on the 'bay - advertised as a BMX, obviously isn't. I think the designers who came up with this went to the same design school as the blokes who came up with the Austin Princess and other great engineering and design concepts of 70s Britain...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-RALEIGH-COMMANDO-BMX-BIKE-1980s-OLD-SKOOL_W0QQitemZ180298868405QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180298868405&_trkparms=72%3A1298%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

motomagII:
jees i had one of them bitd when i was little nipper

brass monkey!:
I had an Orange one of those as a kid !!


Also, saw one in our local Tip, it with Camo paint - I should've blagged it, but the wife was banging on about me having too many BMX's in the house so best left where it was for a quiet life ! LOL !!

davevilla:

--- Quote from: monkeybiscuits! on October 17, 2008, 09:28 AM ---I had an Orange one of those as a kid !!


Also, saw one in our local Tip, it with Camo paint - I should've blagged it, but the wife was banging on about me having too many BMX's in the house so best left where it was for a quiet life ! LOL !!

--- End quote ---

Shame mate - I remember the camouflaged edition. A kid on my street had one when everyone else had Burners and Mongoose bikes - he insisted his bike was better because the 'army used them', presumably as target practice?

Still a restored one would be ace I reckon  :daumenhoch:

mark 2:
I had a camo Commando, that got traded for a Bomber when I was a bigger boy (from being fobbed off about  having a BMX, with a shopkeeper telling my dad you can only ride them on dirt tracks(!?) , 6 months of moaning got me a Night Burner....Happy memories of  the Commando though, was kinda the smaller boys Grifter. Think they retailed for about £60.  The pictured one had the Sturmey Archer throttle gears like a Grifter and the camo type (among some other colours available) had single speed and the Grifter seat instead.

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