28 years of change..........

[oldschool rider]

1980 My first bike - Halfords Turbo -




2008 My New Bike - Mirraco Blend 2 -

[Trev]

pulled back bars and low seat. way ahead of your time... 

[macky]

Is it just my eye's  or are the forks on the Mirraco bent backwards ?

My first bike was a  16"  1982/ 3-ish   Iron horse   Savage...  loved it!!

[Trev]

is the mirraco your actual bike or a catalogue shot given the clear background.

[oldschool rider]

It's a mag shot haven't got round to taking any photos yet but will do soon.

[lazychubs]

all internal headset's make the forks look bent backwards for some reason
as noticed it on a few bikes

[macky]

all internal headset's make the forks look bent backwards for some reason
as noticed it on a few bikes

I did'nt know that ? and they amount of ppl i've told they've bent their forks!! hehe!! 

[oldschool rider]

all internal headset's make the forks look bent backwards for some reason
as noticed it on a few bikes

I think it's coz headtube angles are steeper now and forks go straight instead of slight bend like BITD makes for a quicker response.

I used to have a set of chrome landing gear on my red trickstar and that was really steep maybe that's why i snapped my forks at the steerer tube  but it looked well rad.

[perry]

i spy with my beady eye , an escort , thought id just say  

i think the biggest improvement is the angles , but most new bikes are just like old race bikes now

[oldschool rider]

  I was going to see how long it took you seeing as how you  ford escorts, my brother used to have a mk1 Escort Mexico with a BDA racetuned engine in it, that thing went like stink..................

My brother used to love beating all the posers in their 2.8i Capri's...............

[Voodoocars]

Check out the odd frame geometry on that burner I rode one recently and it was utter rubbish.How things change.

[oldschool rider]

BURNER WHAT BURNER ??

IT'S A HALFORDS TURBO ...........FAR SUPERIOR 

[Longun]

Check out the odd frame geometry on that burner I rode one recently and it was utter rubbish.How things change.

What's changed? They always were rubbish.    What was it with Burners, Halfords Turbos, Iron Horse etc and high BBs? Never understood that.

[bmxer4ever]

The Raleigh Burner was directly responsible for keeping bmx a minority sport.
It was soooooo crap to ride and impossible to do any of the tricks and moves that the pros were doing.

There was a whole pack of Burner kids that hung around our ramps and for the life of them they couldn't do a damn thing until they got on one of our bikes.
But of course, mummy and daddy had already spent their hard earned cash on the Burner, so the poor buggers had no chance of getting a decent bike. "Why do you want a new one? You can't do anything on THAT one..."

Raleigh suck! I hate Burners! AAARRGGHHHH!
RANT!

G!