[Closed] What was the best bike Raleigh ever made?

still got 2 raleighs clubmans and now a folding aerolite, all nice bikes.

I just hope nobody mentions the chopper.

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Raleigh Bomber

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activator, the original.

It re-invented how full sussers should be 😆

Tomac's
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I always lusted after the full sus that Matt Farmer rode in the early Sprung videos.

Probably looks abit skinny these days...

Not sure that Laurent and Johnny's bikes were [i]really[/i] Raleighs....

chopper ! was it raleigh ? anyway luved those crunch crunch middle gear shifters....werent they fun ! lol

You people have no heart and soul

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MSP, please don't sully this thread with that vile re-release!

I had one of the early max's in the mid 90's great bike, was fast and such a great ride for a rigid. Price point was spot on, only shame was i brought it from halfords!!

No pictures unless anyone can find one, it was bright red, alivo groupset, gripshifters, alivio v-brakes. Best bike ive ever had.

Aero Pro Burner........ i feel quite emotional, been searching for the same buzz ever since

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Farmer era DHO;
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One of the RSP bikes in the late 90s was good, full XTR, SIDs etc. perhaps not a cult bike, but I remember wanting one!

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I was lucky enough to own the middle one

it all started for me with these bad boys from 7 to 14 but my commando was camo

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Had a grifter when I was 12.Bit like an early mtb.

Always wanted a Vektar proper starwars stylee especially the console 😀

Had a Boxer then a kids sized Raleigh Road bike, then my first MTB was a Raleigh too

WOW ,the Strika takes me back . 8 years old and the first brand new bike I ever got.
That's my choice

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MK 2 special edition chopper

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Pro burner

RIP Raleigh. I fell on love with bicycles because of you.

Raleigh Olympus:-

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I could do ramps on it and 'everything'.

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/59852996@N06/5592910543/ ]aero burner[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/59852996@N06/ ]Daves mate[/url], on FlickrCaptanFlashheart

I'll see your super tuff burner and raise you an aero pro burner!

The Mag Burner, end ov. Oh and the Activator, arguably the best FS bike ever made.

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Only had the terrible RSW 16 - nasty

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This Raleigh Burner because it was my first proper bike and I loved it
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Clubber!!!! I had that exact bike. My mum gave it to the next door neighbours kid when I was at uni, and it vanished since then

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i know the guy on the front of that poster Binners put up.

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my first

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what was the bike that was dead like that there budgie of Elfins.. but had a normal saddle..? I think the correct term for them was 'bike from the tip what my dad got..' all the kids round our way had them

I had this

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That's the last time I rode singlespeed.

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/27953887@N05/3092893024/ ]raleigh chopper mk2 1970s[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/27953887@N05/ ]lammymod[/url], on Flickr

A sheep in panzer's clothing. I loved that bike

for this forum - has to be Grifter surely? (well said duntstick)

My younger bro went from Stryker to Bomber (both also worthy of dewey-eyed nostalgia) while I kept the Grifter for ages.

Magnum then Record Sprint after that, but the Grifter is the one I remember most fondly.

No doubt I could burn off roadies up Barhatch Lane, style Mutha Hucka and bomb down BKB in 2 minutes dead if I had still had it, such was its allround niche brilliance

I went from strika, with the "pedal back back brake" to a superbomber. Like a normal bomber but get this: it was blue!
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that Budgie is pure class

Tour winning Ti Raleigh
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Anybody remember the Chopper Sprint? A chopper that came with drop handlebars- so cool to a 10yr old, but absolutely lethal(well, my mate's saw him in hospital anyway).Metallic green in a 7up shade, with fluoro orange stickers long before MTBers invented anything that garish.

My God the Budgie could wheelie for miles. Had a purple one. Loved it!

wow this is just the best thread ever,

i had a yellow chopper in 1977 i think, until i got a team peugeot racing bike which started a interest in the dark side which lasted until i bought a second hand commando off a friend, on of my mates had a team murray bmx and that was me then,

first bmx: red burner like the one above,
second bmx: chrome burner,
then first mountain bike in 1987 i think: diamond back accent ex.

i think my favourite was always my first burner.

The first proper bike I can remember (when stablisers came off) was some purple Raleigh thing that had solid rubber tyres and no suspension. That would be classed as hard core these days!

duntstick - Thats not a proper Grifter ! Proper Grifters had nothing left of the front mud guard where it had been turned over to rub on the tyre to make a 'motor bike' type noise.

I had one of these:
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Great bike, until I went into a car wing at over 30mph. Driver didn't think he needed to look at oncoming traffic before turning across into a side road...

Forks bent up under the down tube, twisted frame...

The car didn't do too well either - Dented wing, dented bonnet, broken windscreen and broken number plate!