Bike nostalgia...

[Fusion]

Raleigh Streetwolf with Computer screen/Sounds tbh.

My chariot from aged about 6 - 10, mine was red though.

I vaguely remember them. I remember going to a Raleigh factory outlet/warehouse place in Carlton, Nottingham looking for a bike with my dad. Wanted one of those but ended up with a blue Grifter, rock solid build quality and heavy as a rock, too. Had fat motorbike-esque tyres and a three speed sturmey archer hub gear system with a gripshift style mechanism for changing gear.

Was never any trouble. This is when Raleighs were decent bikes, made in Radford, a suburb of Nottingham. Now they're made in Asia somewhere like everything else, and probably wouldn't last five minutes

 

[Akira]

Think we're on about the same thing, Akira

Indeed. I don't recall the microphone though, mine had a plasticky little red button instead. They were so popular though, there were tons of chinese knockoffs and copies. I can't find a pic of the handlebar rev box mentioned earlier, sadly. They were a big black clunky box next to your grip that made a GGRRRRUUUMMMM sound when you twisted the grip. They were mechanical rather than electronic like the horns.

 

[GarethDW]

Yeah, I'd forgotten about the red button until you mentioned it. The microphone was crap anyway.

I remember the rev thingy too.....

Google is my best friend

 

[RetiredGreyFox]

I had a proper Chopper with knacker cracker back around 1971.
I remember it cost my parents about £30 which was a fortune.

 

[spirity]

I really wanted a Raleigh Superburner (the gold coloured one with black pads). Instead of that, I got a Roughrider for xmas . At least, I think that's what it was called. Google searches come up with nothing. It was impossible to even pop a wheelie on it, it weighed a ton.

Still, I loved that bike. Got one of those yellow horns, changed the grips and fitted a padded seat. So leet! Who remembers Diamondback, Mongoose, Haro and Redline?

http://bmxmuseum.com/

 

[GarethDW]

Who remembers Diamondback, Mongoose, Haro and Redline?

http://bmxmuseum.com/

I had a Mongoose California

I remember it had some mushroom grips on it.... and I bought a racing number plate thingy for it too. Even though I was unbelievably crap at doing any stunts on it.

 

[simisker]

[...] Who remembers Diamondback, Mongoose, Haro and Redline?

http://bmxmuseum.com/

Aaah, I dreamed of owning a Mongoose Supergoose

I think I did okay with what my parents could afford, though: A Team Murray 340 in chrome, with black 5-spoke mag alloys and a coaster [back-pedal] brake, which was the best thing ever. Useless for tricks, as the alloys were too heavy, but hey -the important thing is that it looked cool, of course.

It was a step up from the camouflage Raleigh Commando I had before, anyway

 

[LordSplodge]

I remember that, but alas I had to resort to the "playing card trick" too.

Although I did have one of these too... it was a police siren thing with an additional microphone too. It was great for playing at CHiPS

Think we're on about the same thing, Akira

OMG! I had one of them!

 

[whitecrook]

Heh. I had a Grifter, and a Mongoose (with 'coaster brakes' is that the name? where you pedal back for brakes) That Mongoose was awesome, even the welding/braising looked freaking awesome.

 

[Rotty]

I was to little for a chopper[/QUOTE]


I had a Raleigh Chipper when real little and then a Chopper :)

 

[danza]

I had a Raleigh Wildcat, twas an awesome steed. The plastic bits fell off it over the years, then it got nicked.

 

[spirity]

 

[AJUK]

Always was and always will be the best bike ever created:

http://www.raleighgrifter.co.uk/

'Nuff said, close thread.

 

[Phil W]

Raliegh Max was the bike to have when i was younger, it was my 1st 'proper' bike before Y-Frames were all the rage, at while time i had an "Emmelle Outlaw"

 

[Gerard]

I rememberthe vektar, bloody amazing how some plastic and a few buttons could make a standard bike look so good when we were younger and dumber.

 

[homi-sid-al]

I really wanted a Raleigh Superburner (the gold coloured one with black pads). Instead of that, I got a Roughrider for xmas . At least, I think that's what it was called. Google searches come up with nothing. It was impossible to even pop a wheelie on it, it weighed a ton.

Still, I loved that bike. Got one of those yellow horns, changed the grips and fitted a padded seat. So leet! Who remembers Diamondback, Mongoose, Haro and Redline?

http://bmxmuseum.com/

LOL for a second when you said roughrider i thought you ment one of those cars that took one AA battery

 

[atpbx]

I had a chopper, i went over the handle bars and broke it after i tried to jump it over a ramp made from a plank of wood and some bricks in the street.

 

[jas72]

HaHa, awesome




I had a grifter, I remember them weighing about 900 tons

Choppers rocked, with the massive 'T' shifter on the frame

if you could do a wheelie on a grifter you were strong as .....

hehe

I had the smaller version the tomahawk and my brother the smaller version the budgie.

Alas all that changed with the BMX from then on all bikes were built the same. BMX is now called a mountain bike so adults can pretend they are for adults hehe

 

[jas72]

I was to little for a chopper

that was mine still had to try and fall off my brother's grifter. Man that thing was heavy

You'd have to do many a powerball hour to lift that thing when you were 7-9

 

[m_cozzy]

raleigh chipper in orange, then i remember a raleigh arena racer which i fitted cow horn handle bars, which was the done thing at the time.
When it was time for bmx'es i wanted the ultraburner but instead got a stratton bmx which was just useless, i kept breaking the cranks.
Finally after a few years of paper round I bought myslef a skyway ta, about £400 in 1986