Getting a blood rush reading that list! Mine was a Haro freestyler with Skyways, tioga crank, sealed bearings & graphite pedals. Renthal bars, mushroom grips, sr stem. Wish it was still in my shed but I probably sold it for £20 to keep the beetle running, c.1994
They built a free bmx track in sunny dunny a few years back and I think it still gets used quite a bit. Even with games consoles and the inter web it seems kids still like tearing around on bikes doing stunts. Long may that continue.
Although really speaking, my early teen cycling era was more ‘ 5 speed racer, with cow horn handlebars’.
Our local model shop may still have a stinking big glow fuel one. A bloke ordered it and a few days later came in mumbling the Mrs wouldn't let him have it.
I missed out on the bmx craze and went on to a 5 speed racer. Never off the thing. We used to ride our bikes until the tyres wore down to the inner tubes.
To be fair to Raleigh, the Grifter was their version of a BMX, as was the Bomber their take on the first mountain bikes....even though both were made of depleted uranium/pig iron and weighed the same as several planets
I had a Sand Scorcher when i was a nipper. Think it got binned when my parents moved when I was at uni. Fortunately I saved my Bullhead - which still works!! Wish I still had the other one though Pic is the same as mine - I can’t be arsed going into the loft
I wanted to make my Baja like the scorcher but couldn't find an early baja kit anywhere . Happy with my General Lee though
I had (and still have) the Tamiya Lunchbox. More-or-less still complete and still functional...Built from scratch and well used back in the day. I do seem to remember getting in hot water for the yellow paint spilled on the carpet at my grandparent's place! https://www.wonderlandmodels.com/products/tamiya-112-lunch-box/
Sand Scorcher? That's what happens here in summer. You lot wouldn't know about really scorching sand though, would you?
Nice bit of kit. Mini ball bearings for gearbox and drive shafts. Brass bushes for suspension arms. Torsion bars.