What to do with it?

[sleuthey]

If I had an N+1 policy then I would remove the plastic guard around the rear cassette, remove the smallest and largest chainrings, remove the front derralier and shifter, put 1.5 inch city tyres on, renew all 3 cables plus the usual fettling and cleaning.

 

[Gunk]

If I had an N+1 policy then I would remove the plastic guard around the rear cassette, remove the smallest and largest chainrings, remove the front derralier and shifter, put 1.5 inch city tyres on, renew all 3 cables plus the usual fettling and cleaning.

Sounds like a cunning plan 👍

 

[Jody]

but I reckon you dodged a bullet by going for the GT. I don't think the Activator, or worse still the full-sus Activator 2, was one of Raleigh's better creations..

They were awful and especially the mk2. I'm glad the salesman recommended the GT because the Raleigh wouldn't have lasted long.

If I had an N+1 policy then I would remove the plastic guard around the rear cassette, remove the smallest and largest chainrings, remove the front derralier and shifter, put 1.5 inch city tyres on, renew all 3 cables plus the usual fettling and cleaning.

I cant do that as it's to hilly where I live but i do have some 1.95 slicks.

 

[Gravity Aided]

When mountain bikes first came to be common in my neck of the woods, I lusted after the Panasonic Mountain Cat series. Now, about 35 years later, I have one. Worth the wait. A big difference between basic mountain bikes and good mountain bikes. While they don't have lots of value, they are hard to find. I'd hang on to that GT. Fine bikes. Older ones are great.

 

[Milkfloat]

Pub bike! Leave it as it is and use it when you are worried about having your more expensive bikes nicked.

 

[Globalti]

I still have fond memories of the white and yellow Raleigh Maverick, which I bought for £199 on a whim in 1987 and which made me fall in love with mountain biking. After years of messing around off road with cheap road bikes, breaking axles and bodging triple chainrings I simply couldn't believe what that bike would do and where it would go.

 

[SuperHans123]

Leave it outside the train station with a camera feed trained on it, see how long it lasts.

 

[fossyant]

Keep it. My Diamond Back Ascent is full of XT and LX - I'm looking at a repaint after winter (had 1 repaint). It's 28 years old at least. It's a good frame for XC blasts.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

Keep it. My Diamond Back Ascent is full of XT and LX - I'm looking at a repaint after winter (had 1 repaint). It's 28 years old at least. It's a good frame for XC blasts.

I had to do a double-take when I walked past a railway station the other day. Locked to the railings, with various degrees of security/faith in human nature were:- 1) a 90's rigid 26" Kona MTB of some sort, 2) a Raleigh Stonefly 26" rigid MTB, 3) a rigid 26" Giant MTB of some sort, 4) a lugged frame 700c Raleigh Pioneer, 5) a lugged frame 26" rigid Raleigh Maverick MTB, 6) a 26" rigid Apollo Energy MTB, and 7) a Raleigh Mustang 26" rigid MTB complete with chrome steel wheels (and it's own gravitational field I expect!).
Despite some of these bikes knocking on for 30 years in age, possibly even more in the case of the Maverick, it's interesting to see how they are still very much favoured for utility bikes, and that their riders have not replaced them with more modern bikes. I would still not leave a steel GT MTB locked up at a station though!