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Yes, my grandma bought me a fireball for my birthday (I don't remember how old I was).
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Seeing that picture has brought back a vivid memory...
Tiger trike. Rode it until I was way too old for it and the back snapped off. Fixed, one wheel drive so any downward gradient required riding 2 wheels. [img] 
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Green strika back in late 70's with the cool back pedal brake for me, was awesome for skids
First one I remember was an Orange racer, no idea what it was but it was a Raleigh.
Then a Styler mag BMX.
Then a DynaTech MTB that was actually my brother in laws. When I eventually gave it him back he chucked it in a skip!!
Raleigh Mustang in Pink. I still remember exactly how much I paid (£189.99) and how it died...under the wheels of boy racers at Liss station. Very sad times 🙁 but I replaced it with a lovely steel Marin Pine Mountain and suddenly the world of spending too much on bikes opened up!
Raleigh Medale
Mine looked exactly like this, right down to the light.
I could wheelie one handed the whole length of our street on it, so why can't I do it now??
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In the summer holidays when I was about 11 it was confiscated by my Dad because I went "missing" on it and was found by Police on the other side of Manchester and brought home in a panda.
I thought Raleigh were the dogs dannglys when I was younger. Just reading through this I don't recall owning so many but here's what my old brain can recall
1first bike boxer
2 strika
3budgie
4Chopper
5atleast 3 different types of burner
6 first mountain bike was a mantis
7I currently still run a retro Raleigh twenty and it is one of my favourite bikes.
Too many fond memories
Burner here...
Currently I have a 1983 Record Ace
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and a 1985 Competition
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and a 1982 Road Ace, which I don't have a picture of.
this thread got me googling. This is available, brand new, for a c2w-friendly £999...
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Like many here, a Raleigh (Tomahawk) was my first bike and the bug that bit me for life.
Over the years:
M-Trax (rigid cromo variety) x 2
Stowaway
Twenty
Apex (Reynolds K2 lugged brute which was exceptionally hardwearing and weirdly got me back into cycling after a decade of swapping hardly-ridden garage-queen lightweights )
Proudest bike-build moment was when my restored/customised retro M-Trax 150 was given highest praise over on that there retro forum (by lurking RSP head of products no less)
Seem always to have one Raleigh in the stable. Latest was a surprise gift from an old friend who moved house and decided to give me his old Scirocco. Requires full respray/restoration but I'm up for the challenge! It may be some time...hope to do it by sourcing old bits via bidding and blagging/talking to the bloke at the tip 😀
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I had a wild cat as a kid, then a mustang, in a kind of metallic rusty orange colour, fond memories of that bike. Did some miles on it too.
Forgot to add my first 'proper' bike (Carlton Cyclone) to the list, apparently that was a Raleigh brand too at the time (early 80s). Safe to say I have a soft spot for Raleigh steelies. A real shame about their eventual demise as a manufacturer/brand as they had many a 'Golden Age', the last being the 90s. Used to chat a fair bit back then with Barrie Clarke who was always keen to show us the newest and lightest Team Raleigh M-Trax/Dyna-Tech rides/innovations he had knocking about his shop. He was starting up his own lightweight XC brand 'Venom' back then, but I moved away from the area so no idea what happened to that. Rarer than hen's teeth I'd say?
I had a red Strika and was envious of my brother with his Boxer. My 2nd MTB was a Yukon; loved that bike more than my Dawes Kick Back and as much as any of my latest bikes.
We sold those Amazons and Mustangs in their hundreds. Awful things, and no misty eyed reminiscing will convince me otherwise. Now, can we talk RSP… some lovely bikes…
i had a strika, then a raleigh flyer road bike and finally a 5 speed maverick. The flyer was a little too big for me, and i still wince remembering the many crashes involving my body meeting the toptube at speed.
I had:
Budgie
Commando
Micron 5 (a tiny road bike)
Maverick
Montage
Dynatech Pro (Full Suntour XC Pro with Grease nipples on hubs and BB)
My second ever bike was a Raleigh Amazon, after my first, a Giant Stonebreaker, was nicked out of the shed.
The paint job was called 'Brazilian Rain' and it was gorgeous. Just look at it!
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Also I had a brown Twenty a couple of years ago for scooting about in hipster London. Matt, you were just ahead of the curve.
My first love - A Raleigh Kite Convertible circa early '70s (Google image) [url= https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3923/33331777935_57159fd76e_b.jp g" target="_blank">https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3923/33331777935_57159fd76e_b.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://flic.kr/p/SMq5jt ]Screen Shot 2017-03-09 at 00.47.21[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/145571820@N03/ ]Paul Tarrant[/url], on Flickr 😀
Between my brother and sister we had a Chipper, a Chopper and a Bomber
No access to photo's right now I'm afraid.
Good memories
I had a Raleigh Olympus that was purchased from a next door neighbor, actually it was rescued from a ditch where he had dumped it, but that was my only one. When BMX's hit, I initially had a no brand cheapo from exchange and mart, then after mucho saving, a GT Pro performer frame and forks that I built up, but lots of my mates had Burners.
However, before BMX's hit the scene where I lived, I hankered after a Raleigh Bomber that was always in my Mums catalog. Remember them?
I had a beautiful team titanium (all ti, not lugged) frame that I eventually sold to TandemJeremy.
Nope, never owned or ridden one! Think this is a classic generational thing 🙂
Yellow boxer, red/yellow burner hand-me-down, milk race special.
The only Raleigh I've ever had was one of these:
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A Max Ogre with Reflectalite paint 😀
Was horrifically heavy, had flexy plastic canti's and the most uncomfortable saddle known to man! Didn't stop me riding it relentlessly for 4 years everywhere I could pedal to within a 30 mile radius of home when I was a young teenager though. It was an upgrade from the Apollos I had before it and I distinctly remember buying it as my dad had scraped together the £150 it cost for weeks after I'd snapped the previous bike in half 3 months previously.
I had a early 90's (93 maybe?) Raleigh Team Edition MTB that was painted to look like the M Trax Ti bikes that Barry whosisface rode. Lovely looking thing, but the bar had no bend at all, and my dad insisted on my having a 21" frame so that I'd grow into it. It still wouldn't fit me now, I was only 10 when I had it, I'm fairly sure it contributed to my biggest crash ever when I knocked myself out and broke my collarbone.
Edit - it was 1994, looked like one of these but was chromo rather than ti.
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Three here:
A green and white bmx with one end white and one end green and a duck's face on the saddle. No idea of the name.
A Gravity, aptly named as it had it's own gravitational field.
Many years later, a Pro Race in Reynolds 501db. Man that was a lovely frame, super smooth. Still see them being used in London, fixed, by couriers.
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I had a bright yellow Boxer and the chrome Burner,with mag wheels obvs.
Yup!
A Cyclone, Jeep and a Carlton
In order
Tomahawk
Hustler GT (sturmy archer 3 speed with full length mudguards - not cool when you're 11)
Chopper (classic purple)
Ultra Burner ( upgraded with Renthal bars and Aero mags)
Raleigh Record
I started off with a hand me down Grifter then progressed to a Raleigh Supersport which was a posh version of the Raleigh Winner. It had blue foam "bar tape" which would soak up rain and then stay wet for hours... 😀
Silver/Blue fade paintjob and silver saddle...
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Trying to think back....
Striker
Grifter
Bomber
Pulsar
Record
Maverick
Summit
My one and only brand new complete bike
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Replaced by BSA tour of Britain racer
Just bought this little number. Carbon Raleigh Roker gravel monster 🙂
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simon_g, the shoes complete that image!
No pics from BITD sadly but my first bike was a Chipper. Served me well even when the forks were bent slightly backwards after a 'big off'
After that came a Raleigh that had been hand painted green (frame was a skip find and built up by my grandad). Not sure of the model but it had a double top tube like the clunkers of mtb history.
My first MTB (or ATB as it was called) was a light metallic blue Maverick 5. Loved that bike. As I've said before the steel rims and side pull brakes meant wet weather braking felt like an option box I'd forgotten to tick!
Not sure of the model but it had a double top tube like the clunkers of mtb history.
Boxer had a double down tube. Maybe one of those?
My first two bikes may have been Raleighs, but I don't remember. They were just generic bikes, really. At the age of 10 I got my first new bike (rather than a second hand bike or a hand me down from my brother), a Raleigh Bomber. And not just any Bomber either, but one of the 5 speed ones, such as this:
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Then a few years later it got replaced with a Raleigh Highlander, which was a model or two up the range from all the Mustangs/Mavericks/Lizards that my friends had - STi shifters and everything!
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(Neither picture is mine and there is in fact something odd about that Highlander's shifters.)
Had a Chopper - Mk II or MK III I'm not sure which. Bought from a mate for a tenner when he got a "proper" 10-speed Peugeot "racer".
And a secondhand "Pursuit"
Had a grifter like this:
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then a mustang
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Then after getting various specialized and alpinestar bikes nicked, got a Raleigh Blue Ridge for Uni, which was also nicked.
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Boxer
Maverick - stubby stem, riser bars and slack head angle - just saying...
Activator - got to love Grandma - I was about 5'10" at the time and she bought me a 23" bike! I still hammered the thing into the ground.
I lusted for one of these
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and a mates Team Raleigh Banana - long before I liked road biking.
Budgie.
Mk1 Grifter in metallic red (second hand).
Mustang (the pinky purple jobbie).
Draken (looked like a Yukon but cheaper, replaced the Mustang after it got nicked).
Graduated to "proper" mountain bikes after that (GT Timberline Fs) but have since found my way back to Raleigh via a Marauder that was left behind by the people who we bought our house off and is now being (un)used as a trainer hack and also a Super Grifter that I bought for my son (honest...).
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Chicco
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And an Areana
My first bike was a Raleigh Bullet, complete with stabilisers and a race number plate on the front in the shape of a target. I then progressed from than onto a White Burner with Black Mag wheels, I still love that one (no idea what happened to it though)
CaptainFlashheart - Member
Not sure of the model but it had a double top tube like the clunkers of mtb history.
Boxer had a double down tube. Maybe one of those?
You got me using some google-fu.
Found it! It was a Raleigh Rodeo.
Mine didn't have gears or the chopper style saddle and bars. Like I say it was a built up skip find so flat bars and 'way ahead of its time' singlespeed 😆