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Not my bike but exactly like this. Is it worth anything now?
See my recently acquired Sirocco further up the thread. Not worth a great amount in cash (maybe 100-200 depending on condition/spec), I think they were about 5th down the Raleigh roadie ladder..
But - nice 501 butted frames and I really like the elegantly-shaped sculpted fork crowns. Looking forward to getting mine restored on a shoestring. Who knows what it will be equipped with. Golden Arrow, 600,DX? See what I can find. Intend it to be my 'just for cycling' bike. Quite excited about it 🙂
Found this vid last night:
Hope you've grown into that head, mattbee 😆
I had a Raleigh Kellogg's Pro Tour. Loved it yet hated it at the same time. Road it loads but I always wanted an atb which were deemed a fad and therefore would be a waste of money. Well they got the last bit right. 😆
@mattbee has posted a photo of a Strika, I mentioned having had one earlier in the thread, but any photos I'd seen weren't the same till now, and there's no photo of me on it from 30 yrs ago. Blimey that brings back some memories. I remember it being really heavy compared to my brothers Boxxer, so was jealous of it and my cousins far too big Grifter, which was really fast cos it was far too big.
When I grew out of it I had a "you'll grow into it" Dawes Kickback in white and pink, before then getting a Raleigh Yukon.
Thanks for the photo, it brought back some memories.
Avdave2, I swear that's the one i had too...
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I can't remember if it was a Raleigh or what, but I just remember having a bike that colour and distinctly remember that curved top tube. 🙂
Must have been the Chicco.
Loved that bike.
Having read this thread it is a real shame that Raleigh haven't done "a Boardman". Such an evocative brand from my past but I can't see me or my kids owning another.
Tomohawk
Grifter
Super Burner
Aero Pro Burner
Took full advantage of the 15 year warranty on the Aero Pro - 3 Frames and 5 sets of forks. Never an issue getting replacements. A lesson some companies could learn from.
A burner with the fancy oval 'competition' tubingCaptainFlashheart - MemberYak, sounds like an Aero Burner.
The later burners had oval 'competition' tubing (Night Burner, 2nd gen super burners etc) with but it was just regular steel that was slightly ovalised - the competition bit was the selling point. Aero Pro was Tange 4130, also ovalised (Aero) but not called competition tubing. It was Raleighs homage to the Skyway TA (Totally Aerodynamic) tubing. On my second Aero Pro frame i stripped the decals and replaced them with Skyway TA stickers - complete with with white Mags. It looked very similar to the untrained eye (might have a pic somewhere). The TA tubing was actually teardrop shaped - supposedly more aerodynamic - hence the name for both frames. Both were race bikes after all.
Yes, i was a bmx nerd as a kid 😀
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I have this as a long term loaner hanging up in my garage. Nice bike, with reynolds tubing and a fair turn of speed. It's just about to be attached full time to a turbo trainer
Really glad i read this post. For ages now i have been trying to remember the name of the first two wheeled bike i had - as soon as i read the name i remembered instantly. It was a STRIKER, loved that bike, must of been second hand as i still remember the silver brush streaks it was covered in, back pedal brake meant i was always looking for hills (and new tyres). Even passed my cycling proficiency test on it. This was the bike that started my love affair with two wheels, happy days and memories. Thanks to all who reminded me. First 'mountain bike' was a raleigh discovery about '94ish
Tomahawk
Chopper
Grifter
Roadrunner (seriously Dad... WTF)
Original red burner
Scirocco road bike
Twenty stowaway
Loved them all. I recall the advert for the Burner so clearly - the description of the tyres;
Yellow Cheng Shin chevrons with wide front & narrow rear for "bear hug grip on the berms". They were utterly without grip. Loved them anyway..!
Harry_the_Spider - MemberHaving read this thread it is a real shame that Raleigh haven't done "a Boardman". Such an evocative brand from my past but I can't see me or my kids owning another.
I quite like that my #enduro race bike has Raleigh carbon dh bars, though 😆
(wasn't impressed that they don't sell rebuild kits for their otherwise rather nice FTW pedals though, too expensive to be disposable- RSP have some really good stuff but they don't seem quite up for supporting it)
Grifter
Had many Raleigh, including the Jeep, a joop zoetemelk, which I have just managed to replace. Got a criterium tricross frame, which is slowly being built up. Had another one with aero frame, but the name eludes me. But my fave was the Raleigh 20 bought like this https://m.pinkbike.com/photo/928466/
And after a few upgrades, It looked like this
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I was bullied by a notorious local kid that rode a Grifter..... he had those old school grey coloured Ever Ready lights front and back.
More to the point he had 2 fitted at the front and 2 at the rear.
At my tender age it was like a 2 wheeled Mad Max vehicle with fittingly disturbed rider also.
I sometimes wonder what prison the guy is now locked up in.....
I was riding a kalkhoff "racer" at the time.... so although I was doomed to be unfashionable I could atleast out run the little s*it! lol
Was it a kalkhoff camaro?
CharlieMungus - Member
Was it a kalkhoff camaro?
And so my nemesis returns.....
Though you need to know that I am no longer that frightened little boy and your quad lighted Grifter no longer haunts my nightmares.
(No, don't think it was a Camaro. 😀 )
Shuddup, Poopscoop! It was a camaro! Camaro-boy!
CharlieMungus - Member
Shuddup, Poopscoop! It was a camaro! Camaro-boy!
Damn it!
I'll never get past that bike, never be allowed to move on! 😀
I had a deeply unfashionable Raleigh Jeep when all the cool kids were on their Grifters.
My first racer was a circa 1982 Carlton Criterium in a fetching light green metallic. OK didn't have Raleigh branding but technically a Raleigh by then.
This isn't mine, but I had one the same. Used to live on a hill and the pavement always had huuuuuuuuuge streaks of blue rubber on it 😉
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Bit of a bump as the programme is on the tellybox tonight UK time.
So far, absolutely fascinating.
Well that was fabulous.
What a lovely programme.
My favourite moment as the ten year old girl riding to the coast with her father.
My favourite moment as the ten year old girl riding to the coast with her father.
Absolutely! My 14 year old daughter moans about riding to the end of the driveway. 🙄
My first bike was a Raleigh RSW 11, which was followed by a Raleigh StreetWolf. I'va actually just bought a StreetWolf off eBay, which will slowly be cleaned and hopefully be brought back to it's former glory, no sign of an RSW 11 though.
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Clive Hodgson - his hair was an impressive creation!
First Raleigh
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Second a few years later was a white road bike that I can't remember the name of
But this was the unrealised dream
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My first bike was a Raleigh RSW 11,
Love that pic. The RSW 11 is, purely from aesthetic/design angle, quite perfect.
Would like to see a new scaled-up cargo/town bike version keeping all those lines complete w/balloon tyres and that rack.
Clive Hodgson - his hair was an impressive creation!
You are not wrong there! I couldn't understand the construction/configuration of the 2017 version.
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It was a sweep-over - moulded, sculpted, sprayed and er, bird's-nested, to look as much like a quiff as old Clive could manage. Some creation.
Never had one. Always thought they did shite bikes due to things like the activator etc. Was interesting. Maybe they should have stuck with the high market stuff and down sized.