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Managed to bag myself one of these. Not an easy task considering only 350 have been made. Going to give it to my son, he's only 5 at the moment so it's staying sealed in the box until I think he's old enough.
Thing is though the wife doesn't know
https://www.raleigh.co.uk/team-aero-pro-burner


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Nice but £500

 

Keep it for 20 years, then sell it to a collector and give your son the proceeds!

 

the wife doesn't know so you're not in trouble. great buy. if she finds out, say its a long term investment.

 

Check out eBay!
They've only made 350 and opened the sale world wide after weeks of marketing.
The thing is an icon. Personally I'd have paid quad that if that was the price they were released at however I wouldn't pay a penny more than the release price to the likes of the folk who put them on eBay the moment they managed to get one.
There were over 70,000 people registered in the Q when it opened


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I still have my original burner from when I was 13 I'm now 47 and still ride it


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Were they the wheels that if you bent one out of shape you could put them in the freezer and they would return to normal? Or was that an urban myth?

 

Now that is a blast from the past.


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Snap! Snap! Snap! And now I have a new one


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Pity they put mag wheels on it, as it's a replica of the Craig Schoefield 1985 Superclass world champ bike.

His had wire rims and white dis comps.

Impressed it's got the Tange frameset, but the commercial aero pros were only available in chrome with cooler decals than that one.

 

Man, that takes me back to my childhood. Good work

 

Collectors aren't interested in old school that isn't actually old....especially if it's not actually as well engineered as the original (originals has Sugino or redline flight cranks, Araya race lace wheels, tuffneck stem, hutch bear traps etc.)

Back in the day, a full superclass race bike was worth around £1500...,red line flight cranks were £300 alone, hutch pedals £100....I saved for two years for my GT pro series, sold my Supergoose and Ammoco comp to fund it....reckon it wasn't far off £1500 when all built.

Mag burners, ultra burners, tuff burners fetch more than aero pros because they were far more popular and hard to find a nice one now.

Aero pro frames were twice the price of a full bike and were better looked after as a consequence, so weirdly despite being a far superior bike, aren't worth as much.

I'd promote using it for what it is.

 

I gave my mint condition ultra burner to an ex's brother....mistake BIG mistake..

 

These have tange frames


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That's what I've said

 

Hmmmm tuffneck stems. I've cracked my gentlemans vegetables against those a few times as a kid. Not that it really mattered back in those days!