BigNige

Ok so what did yoiu have as a kid

these are brand names

Did you have a

CHOPPER

BOMBER (bit of a mountain bike but built like a BMX and bloody heavy)

Grifter heavy version of a BMX

Proper stunt BMX

or GAY Racer

Discuss this is for the 80s children only so if your born from 1980 onwards your too young for this but good for a shag (ladies)


Nige

cossiecrew

i had a pukka bmx think it was a raliegh burner and why is gay racer not on the poll

BillyCabrio

iTrader: (1)

I had the Boxer, which was baby version of the Grifter. Then one christmas i got my first proper BMX, but unfortunatley my parents wern't to clued up on it all and got me one made of lead

It was soooooo fooking heavy!!

Anonymous

Had a grifter.

then an ultra burner
Then a mongoose
Then a supergoose
Then a falcon Pro
Then a GT Performer
Then a mongoose pro class
Then a racer - was shite
Then a cadex mountain bike - carbon fibre item - this was nicked out my garage

TIFF

I had a Raligh Ultra Burner

cossiecrew

so if your born in 1980 your not a child in the 80s ???????????? and why aint you voted lol its your poll

BigNige

LOL

Cos i dodnt want to
LOL

I had a bomber for a short time and a chopper that i sold for Ł10 back in like 82 or someting stoopid they are fteching HUGGGGGGEEEE money now for an original one

to be an 80s child and have had these items you would need to have been born at latest 1975 thats why cossiecrew

Being born in 1980 you would have been the right age to use these in 1990+ thus they wont have been around

NIge

Oranoco

I had a Falcon Pro BMX. Still got it wedged away in the shed I think

cossiecrew

dude i was born in 1980 and got my burner when i was well young and you not voting i think you had the racer

yanrs

i had a no.13 yellow huffy pedal backwards brakes bmx which was 'RAD' and then i bought a muddy fox mountain bike that was nicked whilst i was fishing
I then bought a raliegh banana
i want another bmx after seeing e.t the other day but i'm too big and fat

BigNige

CosssieCrew


i had a racer

Nige

pugo

I had a mongoose, with gold stem in nickle and blue accessories
then i had a supergoose again in nickle with araya 7x's chrome spokes, redline pro 'v' bars, shimano dx plats, cali lite pad set, haro levers, kashimax seat, renthol laid back seat post, comp 3's
and it was a real s/goose with the flat side drop out(if ya had one you'll know what i mean)..........the reason i remember all the names of the parts is...................................


because i still own it and its in my loft gleaming!!!!!!!!(after a restoration)

its now 23 years old or will be in 6 days time


Pugo

Chris Honeywell

Well i had a Grifter and a Chopper
M8 of mine had a striker

was born in 1970

Christian and Beccy

iTrader: (14)

My BMX had a Laid-Back Seat Post, CW Handlebars, Mushroom Grips, Beartrap Pedals and a BLING set of OGK Rims.

You HAD to use it to jump ramps made of lengths of wood that were only about 2ft long and 5 bricks high.

Daredevil stunt was to loosen the front wheel nuts, then do a wheelie, watching the wheel bugger off down the road. Normally resulted in landing it and winding yourself or crunching your bollocks on the headset.

Another cool thing was to do a Ghostie and run after the bike and catch it again.

cossiecrew

just as i thought

pugo

FPMSL

pugo

Oranoco

I wa sthe only kid in our street to break a BMX frame.

Maybe I should have taken the warning then and not started with cars

m1ke

Had a boxer too before a bmx but cant remember what it was

cossiecrew

i remember this word well

Benn 304R

I had i think a chopper, 3 gears red blue and yellow , looked like one anyway.
Then I had a mongoose withthe siren that done loads of differant noises , snaped the frame on that
Was a nice bike, all chrome, used to polish it all the time

Then had a racer, bent loads of wheels on that, was shit.

Then had a mountain bike with discs, which were lethal when doing my paperround the morning of the hurricane

Then turned 17, and havent touched a bike since

cossiecrew

can anyone remember wilcats that had all that plastic on them and made well gay noises it was a bmx with a bodykit think they was late 80s early 90s

Lee Reynolds

Had a grifter, Chopper, striker, raleigh burner in chrome , then a few mountain bikes...one being a raleigh mustang

pugo

sorry dude , i was wragging escorts by 1986!!!!!!


pugo

Simon

First one was a team murray bmx then

raleigh bomber
falcon pro
raleigh burner
mini burner with CW's and a fook off big seatpost
gt performer swapped that for
torker 280
PK ripper

then i did the moto x thing for a while

back to pedalling

Kuwhara mtb
specialized rockhopper
marin pine mtn

Then the car thing

back to pedalling

Gt pantera
Gt Bravado

Then the drug thing

back to pedalling

Klein Attitude
Specialized fsr extreme
kona muni mula
Specialized fsr comp (currently have)
Gt Talera (currently have)

ronf42

iTrader: (2)

used to have the raliegh burner ,think it had the plastic 5 spoke rims
Remember the spokey dokeys for the wheels !!


here is the raleigh vektar with the toys on it
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MWF

I had a burner, had three finger brakes which where hard to pull back with little kid hands and spiky pedals which slamed into your shins when you went to pedal off wrong.

MATCOS

iTrader: (1)

Tomahawk -baby chopper then the bad boy.............
GRIFTER

Markb_s1

a mate of mine had smehtign very very similar but it was black... thought it was called a striker or something.

SteveB

iTrader: (3)

Those bastids hurt like fook when your foot slipped off the pedal and they smacked you in the shins....

Shings

Wrong Nige.

My Dad used to work at a playscheme type thing for kids and when they chucked out their old bikes I got em...

Hence I have had a chopper, a Grifter- he had a racer and I still have my proper BMX

SO NER!!!!!

saff_cossie

My neighbour had that bike and said you could get all options for that center console including a TV. Lil bastard, I believed him as well at 8 years old. He had a speedo put in so made it more convincing!

I had a green Grifter with blue handle grips that used to wear the skin off my knuckles. Also a Halfords orange BMX.

Then the MTB era with a Blue Streak 5 speed, then a black 21 speed before hitting the XC racing. Had a Trek 800 in Dry Ice Plum (pink basically! ) then a Rockhopper A1 and my now bike an S Works.

Anyone remember spoky dokey's!? Had loads on and then suddenly when they were not cool, you couldnt get them off!

Mates had a Neon Matterhorn and Marlborough MTB's. Never get away with a Marlborough bike and tabacco advertising in this day and age!!

Adrian

Tomahawk
Chopper
Grifter
Raleigh Winner
Ultra Burner.

Born 1971

Sean Bicknell

Born 1971

Chipper
Tomahawk
Chopper

Then got heavily into BMX's and after doing what felt like about ten paperrounds a day.

I had

Supergoose
Supergoose II
Haro Freestyler
GT Pro Performer, with Grey import Skyways, all the shimano bollox and everything

Sean..

Ginge !

well erm were do i start


first ever bike was a raleigh blazer , that was a 16 ins wheel bmx, yes i remember as im what ya could say into bikes

then a raligh suoertuff burner ( gold one that the gold paint came off and when chrome , then i had sooooo many more bmx's, rough list !

4 falcon pro bmx's 3 green 1 orange, snapped all frames on em , then a mongoose with race plate and my door number on it
then i wne tio skate boards/skates/roller blades THEN i started to get back i to bikes again

mountian bikes ive had are as follows in order

muddy fox path: finder, got nicked
coventry ghost : took apart to repair a fault, never got repaired
ralgigh activator 2, what a shit bike that was, started to swop parts and then
a holdsworth ( was "found " by a mate ) then some fooker nicked it when playing football
ridgeback 501
saracen ltd edition ( a mate "found " it), sold that
then i decided to build a bike, bought a ally frame for 200 quid ( no brand name), got a job in a cycle shop on saturdays and then i made the mistake !!!!

spent 2 grand on buying bits, left school and was offered to be manager of the shop so then to copngratulat me ,then bought a new frame
kona explosive, got bored and so bought a
kona kula, didnt wanna distroy it so bought a
kona fire mountian hack bike, then cracked the frame bought a new hack bike frame
kona cindercone, and to stop my breaking bikes built
a trails bike, trek with a 14ins framestill got it too
guy in a shop left his bike for over a year for repair and that was my next one
kona kiliueua (sp), was too big and so bout a
scot with tange prestige tubing, dented my kona kula frame crashing and but a
gt zasker le frame in blue as it was bomb proof , guy walked in my shop and waved 1500 qui in my face for the bike ( used to stick it on the display rack in my shop
swopped all the nice bits and sold it
bought 1 of the first 10 gt lts frames in the country !!!!!, lasted 4 months, sent back to carrati ( wankers !!!!!) to get a replacement bush sorted !!, 6 months later they gave me a new frame, sold that as it was new ,
got a canondale with formula 1 carbon rigid forks( had to buy the fooking frame too , just today i sold that frame as im gonna go back to a kona exploisive frame as thats the best bike ive ever rode


now heres the bikes i still got !!!!!, kona cindercone, kiliueua, explosive, muddyfox alu xtr, scot tange frame, fomula 1 carbon frame and forks, canondale i just sold to a buy in work for 30 quid , cant think of the rest BUT i know i got 12 bikes in total


and i at the moment am building me old kona explosive, full xtr, maguras ( just painted em bike hut orange , gonna buy the pace rc31 carbon forks and most of it is titainium

need to find a place that makes carbon or TI spokes though to rebuild my old hope Ti hubs


ill show piccys when its done, gonna try and get more into bike racing again and maybe stop the car thing a bit


any gooa bike fourms

Ginge !

sorry never mentiond my bmx's ive had since i was 18 , haro shredder ( to get back into it !),dyno slammer, hoffman big daddy with hofman knee saver bars and then a another mongoose bmx of years ago with skyways i left in my old shop and never collected ) never had a car

theres another but i cant remember what it was

EIL132

Boxer, striker, grifter, chopper and loads of BMX's in that order. Still got a GT Performer and a Hoffman condor

Phil

iTrader: (1)

I had a Raleigh Street Wolf!!!

rstoughy

iTrader: (5)

Had a Boxer then made the step up to a Grifter XL then had a Super Tuff Burner (gold with skyway 5 spokes) with a lay back seat pole

wayneclayden

what an excellent post!!!!
I had a Raleigh chopper.. chrushed my bollox loads of times on the sturmey archer 3 speed shifter!!!
Then went on to BMX in a big way.. rode for a team and went all round the country.
Best track bike was a Diamond back silver streak with those bendy ACS z rims on(always smashing hubs ans sticking spokes through the inner tubes!)
then went into freestyle and had a DP freestyler and then a Haro freestyler.
oh such happy days!!

Ginge !

i got a shop full of bikes btw

i had a geek of the bike world come in my shop on friday, he was a right nutter, had a new chopper, was talking about how good they was and hes rebuilding one and its totally original and then i tell him what i done 8 years ago,


took oer a cycle shop in seven sisters road as manager and seen 3 choppers hanging up in the repair rack, been there over 2 years, 1 had not even been repaied yet buit had been there 6 years


i just bought my first angle grinder 2 weeks before, guess what happened next



choppered the choopers in tiny bits , they guy called me a heartless coont , all cause i was laughing, not gonna tell him about the budgie races me and the bike team i rode with had

what a total cock he was, made me fill in the service book for a puncture repair


hes was a proper head case , he was a guy who prob had a crush on his sister when he was growing up