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Raleigh Commando - BMX???

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davevilla:

--- Quote from: mark j. on October 17, 2008, 10:07 AM ---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.

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I remember a few lads getting bikes that were not to their specification when paying dads were sold pups by bike shop owners - I remember the day that my dad bought me my Ultra Burner - the bloke in the Raleigh shop tried to convince him that the 'Grifter Plus' was the future and that BMX was going to last '6 months' or something like that. Fortunately I think I had a tantrum (little sod) otherwise it would have been twist grip Sturmy Archer gear misery for me...

evamedia:
I had a purple commando with yellow stickers, very 70's

Stodgy:
Brilliant - I had an orange one of those too...I can still remember getting it on my birthday, I was so happy.

welsh denny:
i started off bmxing on a grifter. i had an army camo coloured one, bmx caught my attention and wanted in. unfortunately my parents wouldnt warrent spending money on another bike. started to learn to jump etc on it around 82/83 and snapped the forks.
then i was lucky enough to get an extra burner during the summer as an early birthday pressie. and that's the way its been ever since. bmx all the way.....

bmxmatt1974:
there was a guy at a carboot i went to this year selling 1 of them, he wanted £60 for it  :-\

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