Boon 51
Veteran
- Location
- Deal. Kent.
Ebay and auction watch: let us know if you see something
- Thread starter porteous
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biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
My searches vary from Vintage to Retro , Reynolds , Racing and sometimes just bike and it is strange how different searches can bring up totally different results .
It's good fun searching but some times very frustrating as well
I tend to search for marque names in the bikes or cycling section, i.e. Mercian, Bob Jackson, Harry (gets Harry Quinn's, Harry Hall's and Harry Perry's) and let eBay's algorithms do the rest.
Soltydog
Legendary Member
- Location
- near Hornsea
Last week I was looking around & did a search for 'Carlton' I ended up buying a bike from Carlton in Nottingham instead of a Carlton 
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Another nice tandem project here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sun-Wasp...SwkRdcU0r9&LH_ItemCondition=2500|10|7000|3000
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Saw that as it's near me, but I did think it was over-priced for what it is.
Parkes trike project anyone?
SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
Javelin was usually aimed at catalogues
But could be shop bought, a sort of cheaper competitor to the Raleigh Arena. Yep, 70'_80's. If it has cable clips then more 70's
I had both a Raleigh Arena and a BSA Javelin at the same time as a kid. Both were very similar, with suicide levers and those tiny miniskirt mudguards that protected the brake mechanisms from road filth - but not the rider! The Arena was my "good" bike, bought new about 1980. It got ridden hard though, so to save smashing it up doing silly stunts on, I then bought the pre-abused Javelin secondhand from a neighbour for a Fiver to abuse some more and kept the Arena for "best". I'm sure all the Carbonistas will be having a good laugh at the very thought of an all-steel Arena being anyone's idea of a "best bike"!
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Very tempted
mikeymustard
Guru
Nevermind a racing trike, what you need is one with load-carrying capacity!
Threevok
Growing old disgracefully
- Location
- South Wales
Wow, I would so bid on that, if my youngest wasn't so old now
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Just not my colour
Boon 51
Veteran
- Location
- Deal. Kent.
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
The Arena was the default ten-year-old kids' bike when I was at school. 24" wheels, I think. I had the Olympus, which was the version in darker blue with full mudguards.I had both a Raleigh Arena and a BSA Javelin at the same time as a kid. Both were very similar, with suicide levers and those tiny miniskirt mudguards that protected the brake mechanisms from road filth - but not the rider! The Arena was my "good" bike, bought new about 1980. It got ridden hard though, so to save smashing it up doing silly stunts on, I then bought the pre-abused Javelin secondhand from a neighbour for a Fiver to abuse some more and kept the Arena for "best". I'm sure all the Carbonistas will be having a good laugh at the very thought of an all-steel Arena being anyone's idea of a "best bike"!
Other indifferent Raleighs of the time included the Winner (just as fade spray jobs were coming into fashion) and the Scorpio, which was quite nice in its orange version.
Soltydog
Legendary Member
- Location
- near Hornsea
Raleigh Arena on the bay in Lincoln. It's been on a while & remembered it due to a mate at school having one 
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RALEIGH-...532752?hash=item2cdbb37710:g:LE0AAOSwRRZbHs-F
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RALEIGH-...532752?hash=item2cdbb37710:g:LE0AAOSwRRZbHs-F
