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Post by veg on Sept 8, 2019 21:40:44 GMT 1
This is the real thing, Raleigh super tuff burner just relaunched yes please
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Post by veg on Sept 8, 2019 21:41:17 GMT 1
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Post by veg on Sept 8, 2019 21:41:56 GMT 1
Skyway mag wheels there’s a name from the past
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Post by madmick on Sept 9, 2019 0:34:29 GMT 1
WOW! Veg, that’s just whacked me round the head with a tonne of memories 😍
M.M.
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Sept 9, 2019 7:34:09 GMT 1
Jeeeeez!
Had a few of them
Steve
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Post by jon on Sept 9, 2019 10:38:16 GMT 1
Skyway mag wheels there’s a name from the past Skyway tuffs were of course made from plastic and not magnesium (as I suspect you know). Jon |
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Post by veg on Sept 9, 2019 10:50:05 GMT 1
Mag as a description rather than a reference to the materials 👍😁
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Sept 9, 2019 11:15:25 GMT 1
They were a Bugger for shearing all the spokes if you were too rough on them
Swapped mine for alloy rimmed spoked wheels.
They also had a tendency to crack the frame on the top rail just at the gusset on the headstock
Steve
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Post by madmick on Sept 9, 2019 11:21:35 GMT 1
Back in the day, we built a ramp from wooden planks and milk crates. Then we had a competition who could jump the furthest.
I won, jumping 21 people lying side by side, and a milk crate standing up on edge at the end of them all !!! 🥇🏆😠🤠
M.M.
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Sept 9, 2019 11:47:22 GMT 1
Full flights of steps or wheelies were my speciality
Laid back seat post made the wheelies a doddle
Steve
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Post by rigga on Sept 9, 2019 12:08:49 GMT 1
Back in the day, we built a ramp from wooden planks and milk crates. Then we had a competition who could jump the furthest. I won, jumping 21 people lying side by side, and a milk crate standing up on edge at the end of them all !!! 🥇🏆😠🤠 M.M. Hence the user name I guess..... |
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Post by veg on Sept 9, 2019 12:15:39 GMT 1
Evel Bloody Knieval
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Post by JonW on Sept 9, 2019 13:40:51 GMT 1
Holy hell! you got 'crack' and 'gusset' in the same sentence Steve! They also had a tendency to crack the frame on the top rail just at the gusset on the headstock Steve Aussies often call any snazzy car wheel a 'mag wheel'... Great looking BMX! |
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Sept 9, 2019 16:27:59 GMT 1
Holy hell! you got 'crack' and 'gusset' in the same sentence Steve! They also had a tendency to crack the frame on the top rail just at the gusset on the headstock Steve Aussies often call any snazzy car wheel a 'mag wheel'... Great looking BMX! Lol, and the thread title had chopper in it 🤣🤣🤣 Steve |
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Post by headcoats on Sept 9, 2019 16:29:40 GMT 1
What about Grifters!
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Sept 9, 2019 16:38:26 GMT 1
Had a few Grifters before I moved onto BMX's Had a standard one then fitted burner forks, bars, laid back seat and wheels Only really changed to a Burner as got fed up changing crank/pedal pins when they got chewed In fact I saw 2 Grifters today on a mates garage wall Steve |
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Post by allspeeds on Sept 9, 2019 17:26:33 GMT 1
Had a few Grifters before I moved onto BMX's Had a standard one then fitted burner forks, bars, laid back seat and wheels Only really changed to a Burner as got fed up changing crank/pedal pins when they got chewed In fact I saw 2 Grifters today on a mates garage wall Steve Pattern emerging there! |
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Post by allspeeds on Sept 9, 2019 17:30:31 GMT 1
I had a murray bmx it was the first bmx I had ever seen apart from in a magazine ,my dad was doing some building work on a bike shop and saw the first one they got in and grabbed it for me my mates all said it was crap because it had no gears and a coaster brake funny thing is about 18 months later every one had one,I also always hated choppers from day 1.
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Post by pdxjim on Sept 9, 2019 18:39:44 GMT 1
Those OG Skyway TuffWheels were made just up the road from me in Santa Rosa CA.
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Post by madmick on Sept 9, 2019 19:06:41 GMT 1
Back in the day, we built a ramp from wooden planks and milk crates. Then we had a competition who could jump the furthest. I won, jumping 21 people lying side by side, and a milk crate standing up on edge at the end of them all !!! 🥇🏆😠🤠 M.M. Hence the user name I guess..... This made me pi*s myself 🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏 M.M. |
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Post by copper99 on Sept 9, 2019 20:46:02 GMT 1
Its not a Raleigh manufactured in the UK thou is it, so its never going to be as desirable as the original...
I'm seriously tempted by a Skyway TA, my brother (who is 44) bought a Kuwahara last year and has raced in some veteran races, does the same meetings as his young lad, great fun..more fun second time around maybe...
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Post by steve h on Sept 9, 2019 21:24:34 GMT 1
Bollix to that.. you have to fookin pedal. Good luck with that one old farts.
I would possibly ride a hardly before one of them ( be a toss up which one would look the most stupid under me..)
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Post by veg on Sept 9, 2019 21:28:59 GMT 1
Diamond back?
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Post by pdxjim on Sept 10, 2019 1:31:02 GMT 1
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