Was at my moms yesterday getting her xmas tree out the loft and uncovered this.Forgot i had it and has been there for about 20 years.

What is it you ask????????????



OLD SKOOL B.M.X....RALEIGH ULTRA BURNER.




All cleaned up and oiled.Rode it down the road and all the momorys came flooding back.Even managed a BUNNY HOP and ENDO.Not bad considering i,m 31 6FT1 and 15 STONE.

E-BAY ME THINKS.££££££££££

 

FFs i had one of them that should be worth a bit

 

I remember those I had the Raleigh crome burner 'til I got knocked off it

 

Good Find

It will make Big Bucks on ebay

 

what else have you got in that loft ?

 

OLD SKOOL................................BOOKS and BLAZER.

 

I had the chrome one.. Got rid when i got a Mustang

 

I HAD A RALEIGH MUSTANG AS WELL.

 

I had one of these too.
Then i got a mongoose with z rims ( the flexing ones )
Now did i break some bones on these or what

 

dark colour or light colour one?

 

mint not seen one of those for a long time the pain and no shins . i had a pk ripper and was into ramps lol. take it to a ramp park i did this a few years ago and got right into it lol i was the oldest fecker there pmsl learnt the old tricks again and a few new one's was a proper laugh and got to ride with jamie beswick a few time's he's on another level and was stunning to say the least. proper nice bloke as well
he had a right laugh and gave us some tips lol

 

proper that

 

Dark colour with the clicking shimano gears!

The pink ones were for mongs.

 

Bloody hell I remember when they first came out

I wanted one more than anything in the world

Got one in the end and had the upgraded skyway wheels in black

 

I had a Raleigh Burner in blue with the 'Oval Competition Racing Frame' Had the yellow plastic mag wheels too.

Anyone remember those?

 

I had a Super Tuff Burner which I took the gold off and it was then chromed with black Skyway wheels. Would be worth a lot of money now. Dont sell it as I suspect it will appreciate in value.

Graham

 

i had a super burner with that plastic gold coating on it with skyways

 

i asked for a bmx,and got a grifter
fookin thing weighed 2 ton
try doin a bunny hop on them ,you,ll end up with an erniere

 

They don't seem to be that much money. There's some companies out there selling them for around £120. I'd of thought they'd be a lot more than that. I'm sure mine was about £90

 

Burners dont go for that much sadly, but are still well worth having I recon!
Ive just bought this off a mate, an original late 80s one
(It has early 90s parts on before anyone says lol)

 

You also end up with banana shaped front forks too, as my mate found out

 

Whats a good one then to buy and keep ,one that might appreciate a little? but is not mega bucks now?

 

Mag Burner

 

Anything from the 80s, preferably Haro, Skyway, GT, Kuwahara, Dyno, Diamond Back, Hutch, CW, Mongoose, etc etc

 

the last bmx i had was a gt performer 24 years ago fuck do i feel old

 

i got a grifter aswell then the gears broke & it got stuck in the hardest gear so i used to have to push it up the hills while my mates all cycled up
but you never had a puncture cos they had tractor tyres on the cunts

 

Done a bit of research and of all the 80,s b.mx,s ,these were the most popular.This kind of bike in this condition are fetching around £100-£150 which is,nt bad as this cost my parents £149.99 in 1985.

Here is the full RALEIGH BURNER list in order of cost.Find out how much your parents loved you by checking out where your is .EXPENSIVE at the top and CHEAP at the bottom.

1.AREO BURNER
2.ULTRA BURNER
3.SUPER TUFF BURNER
4.NIGHT BURNER
5.SUPER BURNER
6.MAG BURNER
7.CHROME BURNER
8.BURNER..RED/BLUE.

Mine is No 2 so i guess i was quite lucky.

One word to say on the subject of GRIFTERS.......TOGGLE CHAIN.

 

my grifter was the xl version,the one with the rack on the back
and yes my gears also went

my mate had a bomber with huge cowhorns,scraped his knukles may a times down the small allyways

 

old school kool

 

Blimey you as well Bunny hoping involved pulling ya arms out of their sockets

Anyone remember the BMX that was under the guise of 'Street Hawk'? Had the gizmo panel on the crossbar for all the noises and of course the boost and missile launcher

And before that the little yellow siren attached to your handle bars, had a little red button and you could interchange the siren noises between a Police car, Fire engine and an Ambulance!! Back then they had individual noises to set them apart

 

i must have been spoiled fooker i had an aero burner that i destroyed as fast as i could so i could get a mongoose

 

OMFG I had one of them on my 'second hand' Grifter, they were bloody great
How things have changed

 

fook i had atleast 50 bmxs in my time wrecked em all

 

Raleigh Vektar!!

 

Just a quick blast from that era.

I remember doing a post a few months ago that was hilarious.

Here goes.













I hope you enjoy my little collage of retro images...

And of course the trainers for the dinguin.

 

OMG

Thats it!!!!



Strange...........

I never managed to upgrade to a Grifter, i had the Boxer and then went onto what must of been a catalogue BMX because it was delivered on a low loader That explains my orangutan arms and tha fact that any home built ramps were crushed upon my arrival at the point of contact

Anyway lol, i always thought Grifters were bigger than this



Ahhhh the quality Stermy Archer(??) gears, top notch

 

 

The Grifter Billy...

3 gears that were changeable using the gripshift.

 

Surely they didn't call it the Grifter because of that

My illusions are shattered

 

Grifters were the heaviest bikes known to man....

And the twist grip was shit, every time you pulled a wheelie you changed gear....


Ahhhh the good old days...