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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: factory pilot on December 22, 2016, 08:15 PM
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My Raleigh GS Burner
What did Mr Claus leave under your tree ...
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First one was a generic teardrop chrome frame from the local bike shop. Aero was the brand.
Then I started racing and I got a GT Mach One frame and forks the following year.
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I got a Raleigh Tuff Burner for Christmas in 1982. I bloody loved that bike :smitten:
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A blue and yellow pro star christmas 1982 I think. :4_17_5:
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posted this pic a few times before , and despite the grumpy looking face i was chuffed to bits , i had to pose for the pic when i wanted to just go ride the bike , mum insisted on a picture , bless her , :'(,
currently nursing a stuffed elbow and a torn muscle in my chest thanks to this crazy addiction that started xmas day 1980 on a Team Murray :daumenhoch:
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got a red raleigh burner for xmas either 81 or 82. been hooked ever since, and never quit riding. that'll be 34-35 years riding bmx, also had 2 or 3 earlier years riding a raleigh boxer trying to be like evil knievel.
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Santa lumbered down the chimney in 82 with some old blue & yellow thing. Ashamed to say I still have no idea what that thing was & family can't find any pics......
The blue & yellow machine allowed me to jump,higher,faster & longer than my Spiderman bike ever did & I'd love to find another whatever it was 😁😁😁. Then in 84 I'd been so very,very good he brought my Vincent which I still have. Restoring it about 6 years ago led me into a spiraling web of denial,lies & hiding stuff that continues to this day 😂😂😂
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A MARLBORO ZAPPER ZRS !!!!
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Still love this thing to this day...
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You've all seen this one before. Didn't get it at christmas though.. Got it just before my 7th birthday in April 1984 - A Falcon Pro Kappa. I'd fallen off it so many times that the framev& forks got badly scratched. My dad therefore sprayed it gold (i liked the super burner and gold Yes bmx at the time). I also applied a set of highly unofficial skyway decals to it. I also fitted a dyno plate - the black/white check perimeter one. Bloody loved that bike and it was bulletproof. I gave it away to a mate when i was 16. Wish i still had it, but have managed to find another since :laugh:
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A Saxon in 83 , not seen or heard of one since really , then saved all my paper round money and bought a Ammaco freestyler 6 months later
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1980 a red and chrome Team Murray, and then a Tuff Burner ! Found my old frame in the shed last year and decided to restore it/ collect parts to build it up, now I have five! Promise to myself I would never build a crappy Burner😃
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this crazy addition didn't start with my first bike...its started when my friend Karl H got a black and orange Team Murray. From then I was hooked and had to have one. First bmx was a blue and gold Pro Star.
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I got the bug from someone else's first BMX too, IIRC in the Summer of 83 my brother got a Tuff Burner for his birthday, having rode it a fair bit I wanted one of my own and was lucky enough to get a Super Tuff Burner for Xmas which then morphed into a GT Pro by the Summer IIRC.
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Christmas 1983 I got falcon pro theta was over the moon after spending years on a grifter trying to keep up with lads on burners
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You've all seen this one before. Didn't get it at christmas though.. Got it just before my 7th birthday in April 1984 - A Falcon Pro Kappa. I'd fallen off it so many times that the framev& forks got badly scratched. My dad therefore sprayed it gold (i liked the super burner and gold Yes bmx at the time). I also applied a set of highly unofficial skyway decals to it. I also fitted a dyno plate - the black/white check perimeter one. Bloody loved that bike and it was bulletproof. I gave it away to a mate when i was 16. Wish i still had it, but have managed to find another since :laugh:
(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/dancetothedrummersbeat/Falcon%20Pro%20BMX/12_zps8233a6ad.jpg) (http://s988.photobucket.com/user/dancetothedrummersbeat/media/Falcon%20Pro%20BMX/12_zps8233a6ad.jpg.html)
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Thought my blue thing might have been a falcon at one point. Then I saw yours & realised it wasn't, mine was not that posh :LolLolLolLol:
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:D :LolLolLolLol:
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Saved for ages to put enough money together to make it up for my xmas present in 85? I think.
Found it stashed under my Grandparents bed, I remember the excitement at catching a glimpse of the Pro class wheels weeks before Xmas :smitten:
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Saved for ages to put enough money together to make it up for my xmas present in 85? I think.
Found it stashed under my Grandparents bed, I remember the excitement at catching a glimpse of the Pro class wheels weeks before Xmas :smitten:
Great choice .. I would have loved this bitd.. Lush !!!
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Team Murray for me.
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A Taiwanese kuwi copy called a WMX weighed about 32 pounds.
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Not sure if this counts, having never received a BMX for Christmas, but Santa did bring me a Grifter some time in the late 70s!! One of my friends then got a BMX for Christmas (can't remember what but it was heavy and had a coaster brake) and we went straight out, built a wooden ramp and starting jumping the fooker. I then promptly wiped out after pedaling backwards on landing (it was my first ever time using a coaster brake!) and spend the rest of Xmas Day with concussion! Needless to say I have never ridden a bike with a coaster brake again! :daumenhoch:
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Super Tuff Burner, I was stoked ha!
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Not sure if this counts, having never received a BMX for Christmas, but Santa did bring me a Grifter some time in the late 70s!! One of my friends then got a BMX for Christmas (can't remember what but it was heavy and had a coaster brake) and we went straight out, built a wooden ramp and starting jumping the fooker. I then promptly wiped out after pedaling backwards on landing (it was my first ever time using a coaster brake!) and spend the rest of Xmas Day with concussion! Needless to say I have never ridden a bike with a coaster brake again! :daumenhoch:
exactly what i did !
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Falcon pro Theta for me. The firebird Freestyler a year later
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Raleigh Super burner for me and my brother, pretty sure they were from a catalogue.
Christmas '81 IRC.
By the summer the gold coating had been stripped off, and the gold spoked wheels i swapped with a mate for some black Z rims, some CW pro bars came a bit later and that's pretty much how it stayed until it was stolen from Bognor pier in the summer of '85/6.
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Catalogue special, Iron Horse Dirt Burner
Super heavy POS, loved it to bits ;)