Is there a bike thread?

[paulstung]

Wow some names from the past there, I had the Raleigh Burner Super Tough, that had the most un tuff paint job ever, it was a gold effect, that was like thin toffee, that would crack and peel as if it was laid on the frame in one piece, without any glue. I always drooled after the chopper, but I was a small chilled, and couldn't reach the pedals, so had to settle for it's baby brother the Chipper, but by god could I wheelie the thing, I thought I was ace..

 

[AlienALX]

Wow some names from the past there, I had the Raleigh Burner Super Tough, that had the most un tuff paint job ever, it was a gold effect, that was like thin toffee, that would crack and peel as if it was laid on the frame in one piece, without any glue. I always drooled after the chopper, but I was a small chilled, and couldn't reach the pedals, so had to settle for it's baby brother the Chipper, but by god could I wheelie the thing, I thought I was ace..

The Super Tuff burner like the Ultra burner (if you had rich parents) was a Cro mo frame and because of that paint didn't stick very well. It wasn't chrome plated but chrome is notoriously hard and shiny and getting paint to stick to anything like that is a nightmare.

I guess acid etch primer didn't exist in those days.

I remember your bike well though my cousin had one. Was one of the Raleighs that came with Skyways on.

A kid I grew up with had the Ultra burner. £400, even back then. His dad bought him one and then in the early 90s he switched to a GT (he used to race pro) so he gave me the frame set. Same thing. It was a charcoal coloured matt paint and it chipped no sooner than you looked at it lol.

 

[paulstung]

It was a pain in the arse mate, on Christmas day, after about an hour of riding, I went home, and my dad gave me a slap for taking a big chunk out of the paintwork, within a month, he had realised it was the bikes fault, and stripped the gold off, he managed to save the stickers though, so I was the only kid with a silver Super Tough, it was the bees knees.

 

[Davva2004]

I was always too big as a kid for a BMX, I'd have sold a lung for a Raleigh Burner in gold with black mags!

But I did have a Raleigh Bomber instead, like a 26" 3 speed BMX...

I managed to break the frame jumping it because despite me thinking it was a BMX it sure as hell wasn't built like one. My dad fixed it by drilling the frame and locking both parts together with some hardened steel pins (engineer dad FTW) but he only had gree paint to cover them with to stop them rusting.

From that day forth, I rode the Bogie Bike.

 

[AlienALX]

I remember the Bomber well. Was Raleigh's answer to the 70s track bike.

 

[AlienALX]

Necro !



That's it there as of today. I've ordered some copper stickers (same but copper) that should arrive tomorrow.