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Raleigh recreate classic Team Aero Pro Burner BMX for bike's 35th anniversary

Raleigh are selling a limited run of the classic BMX that was a huge hit in the 80's

Raleigh have carefully rebuilt the Pro model of their legendary 80's Burner BMX to match the exact specs of its original version, and only 350 will be made to mark the bike's 35th anniversary.  

Anyone of a certain age; i.e. a teenager in the 80's; needs no introduction to this bike whatsoever, but for everyone else the Burner was originally released in 1982 in an array of loud colours. Raleigh shifted over half a million of them in just two years, and the Team Aero Burner was the highest spec version. It was ridden to glory in the 1985 World BMX Championships by Craig Schofield, and was used to win countless other titles.  

 

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The limited run of Burners to celebrate the bike's 35th anniversary is steeped in retro nostalgia goodness

 

The bike's specification is as close to the original as possible, with old school steel frame and forks remade by Tange. The wheels are white Skyway Tuff2's, and were some of the last to be made in the original California factory before it closed down last year, and the brakes are Dia-compe MX-1000. The Kashimax Aero saddle is etched with Raleigh's logo, and exact replicas of the original Tange bar grips have been produced by Raleigh to be even more true to the original. The only thing really different about the bike is the set of three matching pads on the top tubes and bars, which are nice additions to the package.   

Anyone who wants to own this slice of nostalgia will have to register their interest by 17th July, and the sale will start at 9am two days later on the 19th. On Raleigh's website, the price is listed as £500. 

Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.  

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Yorkshire wallet | 6 years ago
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I've got a modern cromo GT and it's a totally different beast to those things of 30 years ago. I guess the birth of street riding in the late 80s started changing the geometries.  It's amazing how much energy transfer you can get in modern bikes. I took the GT and a DMR sidekick round a pump track and you could blast around with half the effort on the GT.

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ianguignet | 6 years ago
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should relaunch the aero pro. much better

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EddyBerckx replied to ianguignet | 6 years ago
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ianguignet wrote:

should relaunch the aero pro. much better

 

They have, this is it.

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Yorkshire wallet | 6 years ago
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They can fkc off for £500. I thought they originally going to be £350. For £500 you can original burners in restored condition.

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OldRidgeback replied to Yorkshire wallet | 6 years ago
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Yorkshire wallet wrote:

They can fkc off for £500. I thought they originally going to be £350. For £500 you can original burners in restored condition.

 

That's a lot of money for a bike that actually isn't much good when you stack it up against a more modern BMX. Those BMXs from the 80s feel really short and wobbly to ride. Bike design came on a lot in the 1990s. My 98 vintage GT rides like a modern bike and is a collector's piece too. I know which I'd rather have. A lot of guys I know collect old BMXs and I've ridden quite a few but they're not for me.

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