David's Raleigh Bomber

This is fucking ace.

David's Raleigh Bomber - YouTube

Lovely story.

Amaze balls! I had a Raleigh Burner back in the day. Loved it.

This is fucking ace.

This.

Lovely story.

And this.

Must be really nice to have that back in the family :-)

I had a Rayleigh Burner too... it had a mag front wheel, it was an upgrade from my Rayleigh Bullet.

Beautiful bike with so many memories and the love you've put in restoring it is just an extension of the love for your late brother. I had a little throat onion.

CSB in the rightest sense.

Ace story. Totally what he would have wanted.
I had the Grifter, always wanted a Bomber. It was the "meanest machine on the street" apparently:http://pierroad.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/raleigh-bomber-coastal-cycles.jpg
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=ciRXHV4NI85Z-M&tbnid=H2buU8gooGSYeM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpierroad.co.uk%2F2013%2F06%2F16%2Fold-enough-to-remember-the-raleigh-bomber%2F&ei=C-q1UrqHBae60QXlkoDADQ&bvm=bv.58187178,d.ZG4&psig=AFQjCNEuphDhTwxyyc_trR2iDzhmYHYG_Q&ust=1387740041473107 But no, my parents got me a mtb. Given we lived on a 1:10 hill it was for the best.
(got one eventually, like 25 years later...)

I was treated to a brand-new yellow Boxer, later receiving my brother's Commando (the heaviest bike ever made) as a hand-me-down.

Lovely. Really lovely.

Excellent, it looks brilliant.

Waves of nostalgia flood over me as my Gran bought me a Raleigh Super Bomber for my birthday in about 1982, it started my obsession with blue bikes and riding country lanes.

Oh those cow horn bars, my mate Colin had a black Bomber but my super got all the admiring glances. We were like Easy Rider for the under 11's, more like Hard Rider fnar, it was so heavy it had stuff orbiting it. A quick google reveals it was over 16kg, blimey was it made with lead tubing? How I managed cycling that round the hills of mid Wales with only those 3 gears I'll never know.

Rep for the memories.

Lovely film - great story.

A chrome Bomber was the first bike I bought myself. £30 from the Classified's in the Hull Daily Mail. I think I thought it was a 'proper' mountain bike but was too scared to admit my mistake when my dad had driven me to go and see it.
I rode it for a couple of summers - thankfully Hull is a very flat place - before losing it somewhere. I have a vague memory of it being launched into the River Hull for a dare but, on reflection, I don't think we could have been strong enough to chuck it that far!

Thank you for posting the link and your comments about my restoration of my brothers Raleigh Bomber.

Mike.

That.
Is.
Great.

inspirational!

What a lovely story, thanks for sharing.

great to watch.