About six months ago I’m working in someone’s house and I spot this hung on the wall.
I get chatting to the lad and it’s his childhood bike. He then goes on to tell me he’s got another old school bmx in his garage that he’s saved from the scrap man and I can have it if I want as long as I do something with it and not just throw it away.
So now I start getting excited imagining all sorts of BMX exotica getting rolled out of the garage. Imagine my dismay when it’s this!
I chuck it in the van and it sits out the back of the house for a couple of months before I realise how much the mk1 Raleigh Burner was such a part of my early BMX years. Loads of my mates had them, I’d stare at them in the catalogue before I had a BMX, everywhere you went there were Burners.
My intention was to build a spec chrome burner but after struggling to find the correct forks for it and getting my hands on a cheap set of Tange tx1200 and having a load of spare parts after breaking my Peugeot up I decided to build a slightly upgraded version. Here it is, a thoroughly enjoyable build and easy on the pocket too!
This old knacker up next for my daughters pink build.
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