What bicycles have you had over the years?

Who had a Raleigh Street Wolf?

It had a box and a thumb button that made cool noises n stuff. There was also a Wild Cat version.

Google tells me it it was a 1987 model, which rightly puts me at 4 years old.

Check the awesomeness:

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Raleigh Chopper 1974

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Raleigh Chopper 1974

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1968 - 1980, a true icon. It's a wonder they haven't started making limited editions again for the fanboys.

P.K. Ripper was my first racing BMX when I was a kid. I have no pics of it, so this is not my pic but it looked like this...

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^Still got the shorts and your baseball cap on backwards :)

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^Still got the shorts and your baseball cap on backwards

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Thread: What bicycles have you had over the years?

Still got the same hard on for Bsnub you had as NPT? Give it a rest this is about bicycles if you have a look.

Put me off about posting about my bikes.

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Still got the shorts and your baseball cap on backwards

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You always wanted to be a west coast cool kid didn't ya. LUL

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Originally Posted by bsnub

P.K. Ripper was my first racing BMX when I was a kid. I have no pics of it, so this is not my pic but it looked like this...

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Not a brand I'm familiar with. I was rocking a Specialized Fatboy Hemi MX like this one:

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^Still got the shorts and your baseball cap on backwards :)

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Not sure about him but I do.

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Originally Posted by aging one

Put me off about posting about my bikes.

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Dude they are clueless. Did you know that Gary Turner started building bikes again?

GT 1972

West Coast=Best Coast.

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Still got the same hard on for Bsnub you had as NPT? Give it a rest this is about bicycles if you have a look.

Put me off about posting about my bikes.

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Its was a joke about the gear people wear on BMX's you idiot, christ you are one boring fook - its people without a sense of humour like you are sucking the life out of this place

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P.K. Ripper was my first racing BMX when I was a kid. I have no pics of it, so this is not my pic but it looked like this...

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Did you clip a playing card on the back wheel so it cam make monocycle like notice? :) I did on my 10 speed .

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Did you clip a playing card on the back wheel so it cam make monocycle like notice?

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Are you okay BB? You mentioned your spelling before. Motorcycle like noise yes, back when I was 10 to 14 or so. On my Schwinn Sting Ray.

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I was always jealous of kids with Raleigh Choppers

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or their poorer cousin the Raleigh Grifter

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Ref BMX, it always looked odd to me with tiny bikes and big teens/young adults dwarfing then, looked they'd out grown them

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Are you okay BB? You mentioned your spelling before. Motorcycle like noise yes, back when I was 10 to 14 or so. On my Schwinn Sting Ray.

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Respect AO, I bet the Fonz himself had one of those badboys.

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P.K. Ripper was my first racing BMX when I was a kid. I have no pics of it, so this is not my pic but it looked like this...

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SE racing. I had the Quadangle and also had an OM flyer for a while.

Can't be arsed to post pics.

There's a bare frame on ebay for £1,450

1983 SE Racing PK Ripper BMX Frame with rare unstamped Landing Gear Lite Forks | eBay

Damned if I can find a picture, but I had a 3-speed red Raleigh bike for Christmas in the mid 60's and kept it for years. It was the best Chrsitmas present of my childhood.

Those choppers came out later and were for the little kids, no way you'd get a girl ride on the crossbar of one of those in my day...:)

The bike I have now is only the third bike I've owned, it's still quite young, next year is its tenth birthday.

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Those choppers came out later and were for the little kids, no way you'd get a girl ride on the crossbar of one of those in my day...

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They had very comfy saddles, the gear lever was on the cross bar so you'd have to slip your hand between said girls legs to get it into second :)


They were a blood nightmare stability wise and the centre of gravity was somewhere over the back wheel and you'd flip the thing easily.
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Put some miles in on my Raleigh Grifter back in the day.

Gangs of us, all out the house all day cycling everywhere.

Started cycling again 10 years ago when a mate gave me his old mountain bike, best present anyone has ever given me as it got me back into it.

I never had a "new" bike, we used to build them from bits and pieces, paint strip them and respray from a can. Got the money to buy second hand bikes by hunting golf balls in the water traps at the local golf club.:)

I had a Raleigh Burner

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Worth a few quid now and they even brought out a new limited edition in 2019 for £600

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Not a photo of my bike but just like it. Loved that thing. Wish I could find a women’s three speed now.

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My first bike had training wheels. I rode it for years after the trainers were off. I can still remember the terrible racket it made. :)

^ Go second hand Kitt, the last few i have had i bought second hand and spent peanuts servicing them, got a magnesium alloy racer for a fraction of a new one and the older ones had better build quality.