Those were the days!

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there was a raleigh track frame with the exact same paint scheme as this burner that went on ebay about 8/9 months ago. I was so close to getting it but in the end it just went for too much money - i wanted it so bad!!

team burner ( aero tubing ?? ) with skyways was around 1984 i thinks almost as beautiful as my haro !!

yeah baby! My first bike (not a hand-me-down) was a raleigh Styler (the baby Burner). But it was just as BMX was going out of fashion and I wanted an MTB + gears so bad - D'oh!
I've got a Grifter like this in the shed of my Mums house waiting for me to dig it out.. was £15 from a car boot back in 1999. I restored it to the best of my kiddy ability - including stripping and re-assembling the rear wheel just to polish that SA 3-speed Hub.

my brother had the grifter and i had the boxer which i used to fling over table top jumps at the age of 9ish or weeeeeeee!
love those team burners...there is one on ebay at the mo think its up to about £350ish....

just in the slow process of biulding up the bmx i wanted as a kid..chrome white mags white and black bits....

the team and pro burners were so blooming nice.

i still have my super tuff burner in the shed. another thing waiting to be given some love.

A hipster at York Uni was riding round on a burner.....he set the fastest time so respect is due..

winston A hipster at York Uni was riding round on a burner.....he set the fastest time so respect is due..

the brighton hipsters love them too.

dt there was a raleigh track frame with the exact same paint scheme as this burner that went on ebay about 8/9 months ago. I was so close to getting it but in the end it just went for too much money - i wanted it so bad!!

Check this ad out, is it the same? sure looks neat!

http://www.gumtree.com/london/19/15190619.html

i rode a haro group 1 from 93 as a commuter bike for a year, before the t.j quick came along and showed me that straightening the legs is nice. ha! i sold it back in may to a collecter/bmx shop owner fella and i really miss it. :( it was mint.

still got this in my dads garage at home.....spent alot of my child hood on it
he recently converted it to single speed as a shopper but might make a good polo bike?

I bought this old raleigh the other day and am converting it to fixed
can't wait til its up and running

I have a brand new Rickman Freestyler frame and forks in my loft... I bought it way back when they first came out, then didn't have enough money to build it up, so it's just sat there for more than 20 years...

go on sano, build it up, you know you want to, it'll be like bmx bandits all over again

hahaha, nah, I should sell it to someone and buy another fixed... I've already got one BMX!

dt there was a raleigh track frame with the exact same paint scheme as this burner that went on ebay about 8/9 months ago. I was so close to getting it but in the end it just went for too much money - i wanted it so bad!!

There was a reynolds 531 raliegh frame with that colour scheme on ebay a month... i got it for £75. But i;m a short ass... frame size was 21.5" so i guess demand isn;t that big for frames that size.

and I;m really sorry to inform you... but It's in for a respray as we speak... (it kind of needed it)

I love the battered original colour schemes. It's the bike's heritage.
What colour are you painting your frame, prototype?

i remeber a mate of mine having this, jesus i wanted it so bad, has sound effects thingy if i remember correctly!

BRM666 I love the battered original colour schemes. It's the bike's heritage.
What colour are you painting your frame, prototype?

I totally know what you mean - the white on the frame was actually a really nice pearlecent colour but the blue was quite tatty on closer inspection. I did think twice about it and actually was planning on riding around as it for a while before the respray (and after reading your post a quick 'did i do the right thing?' pop into my mind) but i got some insurance money through from an accident (which wrote off my old bike) and to stop myself blowing it on booze i thought i'd spend it on the bike quickly. It's going to be a metallic forst green with yellow lug lining - i;ve got yellow deep Vs and a yellow san marco saddle to go with it.

This was my first proper BMX.
Certainly don't remember having a stand though!
I've since always had a thing about those colours.
Perhaps I should take on a new fixie project with that in mind.
A bit celeste perhaps.

Check this ad out, is it the same? sure looks neat!

http://www.gumtree.com/london/19/15190619.html

Nah, the one i was looking at had a track frame. I do love that paint job

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i remeber a mate of mine having this, jesus i wanted it so bad, has sound effects thingy if i remember correctly!

sound effects?

http://www.killerclips.com/util/view-greeting.php?mqg=18546

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i remeber a mate of mine having this, jesus i wanted it so bad, has sound effects thingy if i remember correctly!

fucking hell, i didn;t recognise it at first... my parents got me this bike when my family moved back to the UK in '87. it was wicked!

Another old BMXer here - happiest days of my life when BMX *was *life, we rode every day and lived for RoM skatepark every Sunday - days of Marco, Billy Stupple etc. Below is my old first generation Haro Freestyler. Finally had to sell it last year after it lay untouched since the early 80's. Went to a good home as a 'survivor' on the retro BMX forum. Couple of pics of me riding it BITD too - other guy is a young Dave Curry for those who remember him...