Burner! a proper old skool BMX

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Found someone selling this! he wants £120 for it. I had a quick go on it, would make a great restoration project. I used to have one but by the time i got it handed down it was 3rd hand and people were into Mountain Bikes then. I was still tempted if i could lower the asking price a fair bit and if i wasnt skinted. Happy memories of building jumps out of sand and broken old wooden pallets.

I always wanted the blue one with yellow pads but alas I never got a bmx as a kid 🙁

I am reasonably certain that my wee brother’s old Super Burner is still up in my Mum’s loft.
Might need to go for a rummage…

Takes me back. The Christmas morning that all my mates woke up to new Raleigh Burners, I woke up to a….Raleigh Arena 7 speed road bike.

I always wanted the blue one with yellow pads but alas I never got a bmx as a kid

Tuff Burner! Yellow mags too. I had one in my yoof, parts of it are still in mum’s shed I think. Would also like to refurb one one day just for old times sake.

I had a Night Burner, black and gold. Rode it not so long ago and the geo was really horrible.

I always liked the Gold Super Burner.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Raleigh-Super-Burner-MK1-BMX-80s-Retro-/270748284798?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item3f09daf77e#ht_14202wt_1139

I had a white and green Falcon Pro BMX before the Burner. I cant seem to find one anywere now. The font on it was like a digital clock face and it had tiny stunt pegs on it.

that wasn’t much more than £120 new and it’s no longer got the only good bit Burners had (Comp III tyres)

Looking at it now it does look pretty ropey – here’s the one I had:

I actually had the choice between this and a Diamond Back, I’ve wondered for years why I didn’t go for the DB (not that I didn’t love the Tuff Burner)

That Super Burner on eBay is a beaut!

BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT

(no it’s not mine)

They were crap then and they’re even more crap now.

Burners where sh1t then and are still sh1t.

Thats the one tonyd but with out the mag wheels. One mate borrowed anothers bmx and the rear mag exploded into bits when he jumped it off some steps.

They were crap then and they’re even more crap now.

Burners where sh1t then and are still sh1t

Functionally maybe but I’m not disputing that. As a 10 year old on a Mk1 Tuff Burner I wasn’t particularly bothered – it looked good and didn’t kill me.

The hardest kid in my school had a Raleigh Vektar, he claimed the computer on it could make it quicker than a car. We were all too scared of him to call it out as BS, so played along for fear of a chineese burn.

Me on my Tuff Burner, circa 1984

Just had a look through eBay and am surprised at the amount of Burners on there, pretty much all of them at ridiculous prices too.

Got this Andy Ruffles team special in blue and white in the shed a the moment. It belongs to a mate and he’s selling. Nicer condition that the top one here. Drop me a mail if anyone interested.

Me on my Tuff Burner, circa 1984

Radical. Did it stay in one piece on landing?!

catflees – Member
The hardest kid in my school had a Raleigh Vektar, he claimed the computer on it could make it quicker than a car. We were all too scared of him to call it out as BS, so played along for fear of a chineese burn.

Posh School?, Hardest guys at my School didn’t have (their own) bikes and most drove fishing boats or worked in factories the days they weren’t there. 😉

Heres mine… 🙄

Raleighs were sh1t then…

Place we stayed at in France about 9 years ago had a Burner in the barn. And it had massive grounds. Spent two weeks ragging around on it in the sunshine – brilliant!

iirc they were about £90 back in 82/83

Posh School?, Hardest guys at my School didn’t have (their own) bikes and most drove fishing boats or worked in factories the days they weren’t there.

Not posh here, i think his Dad prob nicked it.

Sh1t in what way? I spent all summer riding that bike, I saved up my newspaper round money for it and at 14 had the time of my life pissing about on it all day. Brilliant bike because I enjoyed every minute of it.

Burners may not have been the best bikes in the world but I bet a lot of us here leanrned the joys (and pains) of cycling on one of them. I had a Mag Burner. It was ace.

Raleighs were sh1t then…

Seems to be bit of Burner envy going on even after all these years 😆

You know what? As a bike they are brilliant, they were the bike to have back then and a marketing mans dream. As a BMX they were pretty pants. But hey, it got a massive amount of kids into biking.

So, to be fair I’ll amend my coment.

Crap BMX, great bike.

You know what? As a bike they are brilliant, they were the bike to have back then and a marketing mans dream. As a BMX MTB they were pretty pants. But hey, it got a massive amount of kids into biking.

Just like the Orange 5 then… 8)

Red one with yellow pads (normal wheels) i also got the raleigh team bmx kit to go with it and a full face helmet for my 8th birthday. Awesome!

My first BMX was a Chrome Burner. It weighed about the same as my dads car. But it was featherlight compared to the Grifters and suchlike that preceeded it.

I soon graduated on to more exotic machines – a theme that’s remained constant, but you can’t diss Burners!

I am dissing Burners.

We don’t care (well maybe we do a bit)

I had the 1984 Extra Burner, red and white, painted similar to the ET bike. My brother had the standard one. £109 and £99 respectively from Halfords. Great first bike, but it wasn’t long before I upgraded to a DP freestyler with Z rims. 😀

For all the Raleighs I had as a kid there was always a friend with a bike if some other brand (Puch, for example) that was the same price but far superior, whereas the Raleighs were massively heavy with cheaper components, wheels that buckled if the wind blew too strongly, etc.

For their Choppers and burners, if you went and looked at the designs (mostly from America) that they were ripping off you would find they were much better.

Still got my gold super burner (best xmas pressy ever) in my parents garage, waiting to be ridden/restored/sold.

In my town the only competition was a grifter or a chopper. Burners won hands down. Happy daze.

I can’t remember my Burner (or any other bike I owned before the age of about 14) being heavy, unreliable, falling apart, etc. Nor can I remember it being better or worse than anyone elses bikes in terms of componentry, only desirability.

My Tuff burner was probably the most desirable bike in my school for about two days until someone turned up on an Ultra Burner!

i had a hand-me-down tuff burner from my bro, LOVED IT!

My Burner would have been 3rd hand when I got it in around 1989. I don’t remember it ever being broke and I was surprised by the one I saw in my first post how light they are, sure they are heavy but I must have got a few muscles since I was a BMX bandit. Burners and thier ilk never needed to be amazing, just fun and they were.