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By (user no longer on site) OP 42 weeks ago
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I use to love my BMX. A red Raleigh with white mag wheels. Used to build ramps and do risky stunts. Used to love tinkering with it in the garage and putting a piece of card against the back wheel so it sounded like a motorbike. Fun times. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 42 weeks ago
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"I had a yellow bmx with red spokes. Loved it. Used to make ramps and do jumps. Thought I was IT!  "
Did you and your friends lay after the ramp and hope the rider cleared the last person? I used to. Remember hearing the bike approaching and thinking.... Don't mess it up and land on me! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 42 weeks ago
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"The one i remember was a raleigh apple.. it was red with a green apple sticker on the mud guard and a wee white box on the back loved that bike "
But..... What was in the wee white box?  |
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By *ddie1966Man 42 weeks ago
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Me and my mates used to knock together Frankenbikes as kids but the first one I bought was a Raleigh Arena. Milk round money.....
Put 1000's of miles on it going to swim training every morning and club road racing. It was the GT version with 10 gears, otherwise known as a "double clanger".
Some git nicked it but they did me a favour. Moved up to a Dawes Lightweight after that.
God Im Old. No Choppers when I was a kid. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 42 weeks ago
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"Me and my mates used to knock together Frankenbikes as kids but the first one I bought was a Raleigh Arena. Milk round money.....
Put 1000's of miles on it going to swim training every morning and club road racing. It was the GT version with 10 gears, otherwise known as a "double clanger".
Some git nicked it but they did me a favour. Moved up to a Dawes Lightweight after that.
God Im Old. No Choppers when I was a kid."
Glad you see that as me doing you a favour now. I exchanged it for a copy of Razzle and some bubble gum. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 42 weeks ago
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"When I read the thread title I thought it was going to be about the girl who used to live down the road. "
There's always one that has to smuttify a clean thread! I trust you're hanging your head in shame sir? |
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"When I read the thread title I thought it was going to be about the girl who used to live down the road.
There's always one that has to smuttify a clean thread! I trust you're hanging your head in shame sir? "
We used to call her Flora, cos she spread easily |
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By (user no longer on site) 42 weeks ago
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I had a Raleigh.. I have a photo of me on it the first day - I must have got it for my birthday
It was 2nd hand but I absolutely loved it.. No idea how my mum afforded it, it was possibly bought by my grandparents |
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"I use to love my BMX. A red Raleigh with white mag wheels. Used to build ramps and do risky stunts. Used to love tinkering with it in the garage and putting a piece of card against the back wheel so it sounded like a motorbike. Fun times. "
A red Raleigh? Were the Raleigh burners not all blue. I had a red grifter and a lime green with yellow skyways GT performer. K |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 42 weeks ago
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"I always wanted a grifter but Santa gave me a Raleigh shopper instead, wasn’t any good for jumps or stunts"
Pedestrian riders are welcome here. You must of tried pulling a wheelie on it though? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 42 weeks ago
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"I use to love my BMX. A red Raleigh with white mag wheels. Used to build ramps and do risky stunts. Used to love tinkering with it in the garage and putting a piece of card against the back wheel so it sounded like a motorbike. Fun times.
A red Raleigh? Were the Raleigh burners not all blue. I had a red grifter and a lime green with yellow skyways GT performer. K "
If you mean the brake rubbers?, No they were black as I remember. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 42 weeks ago
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"Still got one of my original Raleigh aero burner bmx and a mongoose with skyway msgs to
When I got bought them in the late 80s "
You do realise, a hotpics photo pose on it is now unavoidable? |
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"I had a yellow bmx with red spokes. Loved it. Used to make ramps and do jumps. Thought I was IT!
Did you and your friends lay after the ramp and hope the rider cleared the last person? I used to. Remember hearing the bike approaching and thinking.... Don't mess it up and land on me! "
I never did that, but other pals did it on their bmx’s I just did high ramps |
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My first bicycle was my first new one until I bought my first BMX out of my communion money, but it was borrowed without consent, along with my first double kicktail batman skateboard from outside our front door in Middlesex, I was 4/5, that taught me a valuable lesson about why theft is bad. After that my grandad sent me an old bicycle from Ireland, complete with one homemade wooden pedal... my bicycles until my BMX never had brakes, my runners used to have arches worn into them from using my foot as a brake  I was a danger on bikes, my mother used to have people calling to complain that i'd cycled straight out in front of them going through a crossroads, and my mum is a legend, so they were told where to go lollololol gimme a bike and something to launch it off and I was airborne |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 42 weeks ago
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"My first bicycle was my first new one until I bought my first BMX out of my communion money, but it was borrowed without consent, along with my first double kicktail batman skateboard from outside our front door in Middlesex, I was 4/5, that taught me a valuable lesson about why theft is bad. After that my grandad sent me an old bicycle from Ireland, complete with one homemade wooden pedal... my bicycles until my BMX never had brakes, my runners used to have arches worn into them from using my foot as a brake I was a danger on bikes, my mother used to have people calling to complain that i'd cycled straight out in front of them going through a crossroads, and my mum is a legend, so they were told where to go lollololol gimme a bike and something to launch it off and I was airborne "
Wish I'd known you as a kid, we could have been .... The BMX Bandits!  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 42 weeks ago
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"I had a yellow bmx with red spokes. Loved it. Used to make ramps and do jumps. Thought I was IT!
Did you and your friends lay after the ramp and hope the rider cleared the last person? I used to. Remember hearing the bike approaching and thinking.... Don't mess it up and land on me!
I never did that, but other pals did it on their bmx’s I just did high ramps "
Perhaps change your fab name to: Scandalously High |
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"My first bicycle was my first new one until I bought my first BMX out of my communion money, but it was borrowed without consent, along with my first double kicktail batman skateboard from outside our front door in Middlesex, I was 4/5, that taught me a valuable lesson about why theft is bad. After that my grandad sent me an old bicycle from Ireland, complete with one homemade wooden pedal... my bicycles until my BMX never had brakes, my runners used to have arches worn into them from using my foot as a brake I was a danger on bikes, my mother used to have people calling to complain that i'd cycled straight out in front of them going through a crossroads, and my mum is a legend, so they were told where to go lollololol gimme a bike and something to launch it off and I was airborne
Wish I'd known you as a kid, we could have been .... The BMX Bandits! "
That brings me back!!!! |
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