For Sale Totally original raleigh activator in as it left factory condition stunning not sure of value yet of unmolested unmarked pristine bike so puttin 500.

[The History Man]

I would love that car now.

I’d have another in a heartbeat. £200. Eighteen months later gearbox went. Scrapped for £50. Went everywhere in it.

 

[The History Man]

That Volvo is far too cool to compare to the Activator!

In 86 I was laughed at. My mates had 205s xr3is etc.

 

[Stressed]

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[BlackCat]

I read this briefly earlier and didn't have time to react....is over 60 the majority age on here? Shirley not?

/thread drift in a different direction now

Happy to say I am decades short of that. I mean, there is retro and there is retro..

 

[brocklanders023]

It was and still is a very cheap nasty cynical attempt to cash in on something that was generating money.

Take the already terrible Raleigh mustang frame, add the most awful 'suspension' forks and you have instant birthday / Christmas present fodder for unsuspecting but well meaning relatives to buy.

It has no car equivalent so you can calm your heads there.

But, in the dim and distant 80's lurked it's home computer equivalent...

The Amstrad CPC464

Parents new to this home computer lark were lured in by offers and for the same price as the far superior Atari ST or Amiga 500, Alan would supply the best habitat desk, his finest colour monitor as well as the already out of date CPC

So, yes, it's an Amstrad of the cycling world.

So off to the recycling centre with it, weigh it in and be glad in the knowledge that you saved another poor unsuspecting soul from bicycling misery

We had a 464, bought with compo after Mum had been in an accident. It was good fun and comparable to the ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64. The Amiga cost loads more, from memory the one we got was double the price of the 464 it replaced?

 

[legrandefromage]

Well, in our local Euronics, a bare ST was £499

The CPC package was £499, including a desk, monitor and a few other bits

 

[d8mok]

Happy to say I am decades short of that. I mean, there is retro and there is retro..

More like half that almost

 

[brocklanders023]

Well, in our local Euronics, a bare ST was £499

The CPC package was £499, including a desk, monitor and a few other bits

According to the interweb the 464 computer was £199 or £299 with monitor, so chuck in a desk etc it could easily get up to £499 I guess. Not exactly comparable to £499 for the ST on it's own though?

By the time we got the Amiga (1990?) you could get it bundled with a load of games for £399 I think? You could get the same deal with the ST but no one did because the Amiga was the better computer so maybe the ST was actually the Activator!

Not that any of that matters.

 

[legrandefromage]

Oh, that old amiga!/ ST thing

Which was betterer

Well, at the time, both were better than any amstrad or sinclair with the computery kids owning at least a c64, amiga and an st, or it was so at my school. I usually inherited the out of date stuff anyway until the St arrived as a present in 88.

Turrican and lotus esprit turbo challenge

.. but then the REALLY techy kids had an Archimedes, out cooling us all

 

[Peachy!]

I loved my Amiga 1200