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Title: My New Project
Post by: benda666 on June 25, 2006, 08:28 PM

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y261/benda666/IMAG0004.jpg)

Raleigh Burner, God knows what year its from but ive been told some of the bits on this are worth £££ i got this for nothing was laying on a pile of bricks so i thought "i cant let it suffer" took it and at this moment in slowly restoring it,

what i can make out at the moment it has:

Skyway Tuff II's,
some funky looking grips
and rust! (alot of the stuff)

can anyone help me with the year is and what the name of some of the bits are :)

Thanks,

Ben  :D

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: lazychubs on June 25, 2006, 08:37 PM

nice one ben
i will give ya some dollar for the wheels lol

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: duncan on June 25, 2006, 08:45 PM

It's an early 80's Raleigh Tuff Burner. 82?
It looks like most of the components there are original (grips and possibly bars excluded)
The wheels are valuable if they're in good condition, but then again they belong on that bike - you could restore it as a complete bike, you have almost all the parts already.
A very nice find.

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: Moza on June 25, 2006, 09:30 PM

Looks like Cobra grips

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: bokbok on June 25, 2006, 09:39 PM

the grips are not the ones you get on it everything looks original it wants to look like this  ;)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j60/bokbok0/tuff1.jpg)

you really want to go on raleighburner.com to learn how to do everything to restore it

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: jimwise68 on June 25, 2006, 10:36 PM

I've said it once and I will say it again. That burner is schweeeeeeeeet!  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: benda666 on June 25, 2006, 10:42 PM

i managed to work out what it says on the side of those grips its says "supergoose" and with what looks to be the old Mongoose logo

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: othomas2 on June 25, 2006, 10:53 PM

They do look like cobra grips...

All looks to be original cept the grips... you'll need some oakley F1 spotty grips or fuan do decent copies.

Would you like to sell the bike to me :) ??

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: jimwise68 on June 25, 2006, 11:14 PM

They came with those poxy foam grips. The ones that lasted about 10 minutes!

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: benda666 on June 26, 2006, 01:35 PM

ive had loads of offers but i dont want to sell it, thanks for the offer thought :)

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: kdw712 on June 26, 2006, 01:43 PM

nice find !

plenty to keep you busy there  :daumenhoch:

grips look like oakley 3 / copies from what i can see

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: espigoules083 on June 26, 2006, 01:46 PM

realy good, nice projet have fun, and good job..  :)

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: benda666 on June 27, 2006, 11:57 PM

thanks every one well that pic is how i found it so i will post a pic here of when its finished

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: theRuler on June 28, 2006, 09:37 AM

make a fast buck off it

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: FuNMoNsTeR on June 28, 2006, 03:34 PM

Quote from: jimwise68 on June 25, 2006, 11:14 PM

They came with those poxy foam grips. The ones that lasted about 10 minutes!

Yep...all original except the bars and foam grips... If you want to stay true to original spec then foam ones are the way to go :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: My New Project
Post by: Waxintaxin on June 28, 2006, 07:42 PM

yea foam ones like grab on ,but rubbish

the tyres are hard to get in the right pattern , but looks a good project for sure


Rich :)