Sara_H
Guru
Yes, I plan to in spring. it's got a three speed Sturmey and I was surprised how far uphill it got me, but plan to get the sprocket changed when I have it serviced.
How has Raleigh touched your cycling life?
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Lanzecki
Über Member
- Location
- A Boreen, Ireland
My first memory was of a Raleigh Boxer (Yellow BMX type Thing) It came with a yellow jacket as well.
My second was a Raleigh racer that I couldn't name. 10 speed I think and blue. My memory fails when I need to remember stuff from last week, so looking back to the 70's and eighties is almost painful.
**Edit** I just google'd a picture of the Raleigh Boxer : here
Less BMXish then I remember. Not to mention a really spongy saddle
My second was a Raleigh racer that I couldn't name. 10 speed I think and blue. My memory fails when I need to remember stuff from last week, so looking back to the 70's and eighties is almost painful.
**Edit** I just google'd a picture of the Raleigh Boxer : here
Less BMXish then I remember. Not to mention a really spongy saddle
Teuchter
Über Member
- Location
- Erskine, Scotland
When I was a kid in the 70s, everyone rode Raleighs. We still have two old Raleighs in our household right now... an old Twenty for my wife for the rare occasions when she can be persuaded to take to two wheels and a "Transit" roadster that I ride when I want to just chill out and enjoy the scenery. Both have Sturmey Archer 3 speed hubs and steel rims. I bought them as a pair a few years ago from an old couple who had owned them from new but had hardly used them.
In addition when growing up I had (in chronological order):
Raleigh Budgie
Raleigh Strika
Raleigh Grifter
After that I got a Puch road bike.
In addition when growing up I had (in chronological order):
Raleigh Budgie
Raleigh Strika
Raleigh Grifter
After that I got a Puch road bike.
Boris Bajic
Guest
His direct influence has been limited, as he died some centuries before my birth.
However, his vigorous efforts to encourage the colonisation of the new World may have led indirectly to the birth in the last century of a gentleman who, by not winning the Tour de France more times than anyone else hasn't won it, had a profound effect on the perception of cycling in North America and Europe.
Also, I believe he invented the potato, which forms the basis of much of my carbo-loading pre-race diet.
He did not ride a bicycle or advocate the riding of one.
However, his vigorous efforts to encourage the colonisation of the new World may have led indirectly to the birth in the last century of a gentleman who, by not winning the Tour de France more times than anyone else hasn't won it, had a profound effect on the perception of cycling in North America and Europe.
Also, I believe he invented the potato, which forms the basis of much of my carbo-loading pre-race diet.
He did not ride a bicycle or advocate the riding of one.
Globalti
Legendary Member
My return to cycling as an adult happened when I glanced in a bike shop window in Harrogate and spotted a Raleigh Maverick. It looked so stunning in white and yellow with red graphics that I fell in love and paid £199.99 there and then on my Barclaycard and rode it straight home. I simply could not believe a bike could do what it could do and it turned my world upside-down; up to that moment I was getting overweight and basically bored and depressed but the discovery of mountain biking took me off in a whole new direction.
Didn't he also bring us tobacco, that great cycle enhancing drug?
Boris Bajic
Guest
This is nonsense. Of course he didn't invent tobacco.
You are confusing the puerile musings of Bob Newhart with the very real and serious study of History.
If you have nothing more adult to add, please restrict your writing to cycling or climb into a very small box and make a noise like an angry oyster.
Thank you.
Lanzecki
Über Member
- Location
- A Boreen, Ireland
Please tell me what that sounds like. One of lifes unanswered questions. along with why did kamakazie pilots wear crash helmets.
Boris Bajic
Guest
I can't tell you.
You need to become an oyster and then become angry or vice versa. The process can be vertical if the juxtaposed ply-forming method proves challenging.
It's a Stanislavski thing, really. If you find the anger and the oyster, you will find the voice.
It may take some days. Ketchup or a Slovak folk melody from a muted trumpet might help. By the same token, they might not.
I am making the noise as I type, but it does not easily offer its complex structure of interwoven sound and silence to the keyboard.
I have tried my very best to help, but I fear I have not.
Had all Raleigh bikes as a child, and then stopped cycling for a long while.
When I was first getting back in to cycling I bought another Raleigh.. Although at the time I didn't realize it was a Raleigh full suspension BSO (it's Raleigh, it must be good! Or not.) I've been wary of Raleigh since then, definitely not what they used to be.
Fast forward some years from then, I'm now in the process of rebuilding a Raleigh Royale which I believe is from the 60's.
When I was first getting back in to cycling I bought another Raleigh.. Although at the time I didn't realize it was a Raleigh full suspension BSO (it's Raleigh, it must be good! Or not.) I've been wary of Raleigh since then, definitely not what they used to be.
Fast forward some years from then, I'm now in the process of rebuilding a Raleigh Royale which I believe is from the 60's.
Minotier
Veteran
- Location
- The Flat Side of South Yorkshire.
The first bike I had was a Sunbeam with huge balloon like white tyres, from then on it was all Raleigh.
A red RSW 14 at 9,got me some stick but I went miles on it, then my best ever childhood bike a 3 speed Raleigh Rebel. Aged 13 I rode it to death.
In my early twenties I attained a Supersport 12 and that soon made way for the beautiful 1983 Clubman that is still as good as new and I currently use as my winter bike.
Since then I have had 2 Peugeots, an Olmo and a Falcon. But my old Rebel will always be dear to my heart, it was the last present my dad bought me and I will cherish the memories of us out together chatting and enjoying the sunshine, me on the Rebel and he on his trusty Triumph. Happy days.
A red RSW 14 at 9,got me some stick but I went miles on it, then my best ever childhood bike a 3 speed Raleigh Rebel. Aged 13 I rode it to death.
In my early twenties I attained a Supersport 12 and that soon made way for the beautiful 1983 Clubman that is still as good as new and I currently use as my winter bike.
Since then I have had 2 Peugeots, an Olmo and a Falcon. But my old Rebel will always be dear to my heart, it was the last present my dad bought me and I will cherish the memories of us out together chatting and enjoying the sunshine, me on the Rebel and he on his trusty Triumph. Happy days.
Get In The Van
Senior Member
- Location
- West Lothian
went like this for me...
then this, although i thought i was the dogs dagglies when i put actual Skyways on
Then to my first 'road' bike
I loved my Raleigh bikes
then this, although i thought i was the dogs dagglies when i put actual Skyways on
Then to my first 'road' bike
I loved my Raleigh bikes
