Author Topic: So what BMX bike did Santa bring you BITD that started this crazy addiction? (Read 4128 times)

factory pilot · « **on:** December 22, 2016, 08:15 PM »

My Raleigh GS Burner

What did Mr Claus leave under your tree ...

That Swan Guy · « **Reply #1 on:** December 22, 2016, 08:21 PM »

First one was a generic teardrop chrome frame from the local bike shop. Aero was the brand.

Then I started racing and I got a GT Mach One frame and forks the following year.

dp and chopper dude · « **Reply #2 on:** December 22, 2016, 08:37 PM »

I got a Raleigh Tuff Burner for Christmas in 1982. I bloody loved that bike

oldscool · « **Reply #3 on:** December 22, 2016, 09:03 PM »

A blue and yellow pro star christmas 1982 I think.

oldtired · « **Reply #4 on:** December 22, 2016, 10:03 PM »

posted this pic a few times before , and despite the grumpy looking face i was chuffed to bits , i had to pose for the pic when i wanted to just go ride the bike , mum insisted on a picture , bless her ,

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currently nursing a stuffed elbow and a torn muscle in my chest thanks to this crazy addiction that started xmas day 1980 on a Team Murray

john4130 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 22, 2016, 10:24 PM »

got a red raleigh burner for xmas either 81 or 82. been hooked ever since, and never quit riding. that'll be 34-35 years riding bmx, also had 2 or 3 earlier years riding a raleigh boxer trying to be like evil knievel.

chubby · « **Reply #6 on:** December 22, 2016, 10:27 PM »

Santa lumbered down the chimney in 82 with some old blue & yellow thing. Ashamed to say I still have no idea what that thing was & family can't find any pics......
The blue & yellow machine allowed me to jump,higher,faster & longer than my Spiderman bike ever did & I'd love to find another whatever it was 😁😁😁. Then in 84 I'd been so very,very good he brought my Vincent which I still have. Restoring it about 6 years ago led me into a spiraling web of denial,lies & hiding stuff that continues to this day 😂😂😂

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Funkyworm · « **Reply #7 on:** December 22, 2016, 10:32 PM »

A MARLBORO ZAPPER ZRS !!!!

Still love this thing to this day...

dancetothedrummersbeat · « **Reply #8 on:** December 22, 2016, 11:21 PM »

You've all seen this one before. Didn't get it at christmas though.. Got it just before my 7th birthday in April 1984 - A Falcon Pro Kappa. I'd fallen off it so many times that the framev& forks got badly scratched. My dad therefore sprayed it gold (i liked the super burner and gold Yes bmx at the time). I also applied a set of highly unofficial skyway decals to it. I also fitted a dyno plate - the black/white check perimeter one. Bloody loved that bike and it was bulletproof. I gave it away to a mate when i was 16. Wish i still had it, but have managed to find another since

radovr · « **Reply #9 on:** December 23, 2016, 12:00 AM »

A Saxon in 83 , not seen or heard of one since really , then saved all my paper round money and bought a Ammaco freestyler 6 months later

SDF · « **Reply #10 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:19 AM »

1980 a red and chrome Team Murray, and then a Tuff Burner ! Found my old frame in the shed last year and decided to restore it/ collect parts to build it up, now I have five! Promise to myself I would never build a crappy Burner😃

McQUEEN · « **Reply #11 on:** December 23, 2016, 08:51 AM »

this crazy addition didn't start with my first bike...its started when my friend Karl H got a black and orange Team Murray. From then I was hooked and had to have one. First bmx was a blue and gold Pro Star.

rodriguez · « **Reply #12 on:** December 23, 2016, 09:41 AM »

I got the bug from someone else's first BMX too, IIRC in the Summer of 83 my brother got a Tuff Burner for his birthday, having rode it a fair bit I wanted one of my own and was lucky enough to get a Super Tuff Burner for Xmas which then morphed into a GT Pro by the Summer IIRC.

Quadog · « **Reply #13 on:** December 23, 2016, 09:46 AM »

Christmas 1983 I got falcon pro theta was over the moon after spending years on a grifter trying to keep up with lads on burners

chubby · « **Reply #14 on:** December 23, 2016, 10:05 AM »

Quote from: dancetothedrummersbeat on December 22, 2016, 11:21 PM

You've all seen this one before. Didn't get it at christmas though.. Got it just before my 7th birthday in April 1984 - A Falcon Pro Kappa. I'd fallen off it so many times that the framev& forks got badly scratched. My dad therefore sprayed it gold (i liked the super burner and gold Yes bmx at the time). I also applied a set of highly unofficial skyway decals to it. I also fitted a dyno plate - the black/white check perimeter one. Bloody loved that bike and it was bulletproof. I gave it away to a mate when i was 16. Wish i still had it, but have managed to find another since

Thought my blue thing might have been a falcon at one point. Then I saw yours & realised it wasn't, mine was not that posh

factory pilot · « **Reply #15 on:** December 23, 2016, 10:14 AM »

WINI · « **Reply #16 on:** December 23, 2016, 10:38 AM »

Saved for ages to put enough money together to make it up for my xmas present in 85? I think.

Found it stashed under my Grandparents bed, I remember the excitement at catching a glimpse of the Pro class wheels weeks before Xmas

factory pilot · « **Reply #17 on:** December 23, 2016, 10:43 AM »

Quote from: WINI on December 23, 2016, 10:38 AM

Saved for ages to put enough money together to make it up for my xmas present in 85? I think.

Found it stashed under my Grandparents bed, I remember the excitement at catching a glimpse of the Pro class wheels weeks before Xmas

Great choice .. I would have loved this bitd.. Lush !!!

HUTCHMAN · « **Reply #18 on:** December 23, 2016, 08:35 PM »

Team Murray for me.

boofy44 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 24, 2016, 02:40 PM »

A Taiwanese kuwi copy called a WMX weighed about 32 pounds.

Mikku · « **Reply #20 on:** December 24, 2016, 02:59 PM »

Not sure if this counts, having never received a BMX for Christmas, but Santa did bring me a Grifter some time in the late 70s!! One of my friends then got a BMX for Christmas (can't remember what but it was heavy and had a coaster brake) and we went straight out, built a wooden ramp and starting jumping the fooker. I then promptly wiped out after pedaling backwards on landing (it was my first ever time using a coaster brake!) and spend the rest of Xmas Day with concussion! Needless to say I have never ridden a bike with a coaster brake again!

fugazi · « **Reply #21 on:** December 24, 2016, 06:14 PM »

Super Tuff Burner, I was stoked ha!

HUTCHMAN · « **Reply #22 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:40 AM »

Quote from: Mikku on December 24, 2016, 02:59 PM

Not sure if this counts, having never received a BMX for Christmas, but Santa did bring me a Grifter some time in the late 70s!! One of my friends then got a BMX for Christmas (can't remember what but it was heavy and had a coaster brake) and we went straight out, built a wooden ramp and starting jumping the fooker. I then promptly wiped out after pedaling backwards on landing (it was my first ever time using a coaster brake!) and spend the rest of Xmas Day with concussion! Needless to say I have never ridden a bike with a coaster brake again!

exactly what i did !

brettypeeps · « **Reply #23 on:** December 25, 2016, 10:12 PM »

Falcon pro Theta for me. The firebird Freestyler a year later

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insectbones · « **Reply #24 on:** December 26, 2016, 09:20 AM »

Raleigh Super burner for me and my brother, pretty sure they were from a catalogue.

Christmas '81 IRC.

By the summer the gold coating had been stripped off, and the gold spoked wheels i swapped with a mate for some black Z rims, some CW pro bars came a bit later and that's pretty much how it stayed until it was stolen from Bognor pier in the summer of '85/6.

Author Topic: So what BMX bike did Santa bring you BITD that started this crazy addiction? (Read 4128 times)

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