stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 15/1/04 at 10:40 PM |
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get your chopper out!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3400205.stm
the raleigh chopper is back. I never had one...... but I bet alanB and ChrisG did (possibly nicked from a littler kid  )
own up all 'certain age' ex chopper owners
for really sad try
http://www.rcoc.co.uk/AoldNEWPAGE.htm
and you thought wafling about 7's was sad.....
[Edited on 15/1/04 by stephen_gusterson]
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Alan B
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| posted on 15/1/04 at 10:54 PM |
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Nope not me.....
I do remember them though.
Over to Chris......
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robinbastd
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| posted on 15/1/04 at 10:57 PM |
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Deprived childhood.  All my mates had Choppers, and their kid brothers had Chippers.
Didn't get Scalextrix either..................and haven't got the space for it now ,so I got myself a PS2 for Christmas.
Ian
Only a dead fish swims with the tide.
http://smuttygifts.com/
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robinbastd
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| posted on 15/1/04 at 10:59 PM |
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This is a thread for 40 year olds and over!
Only a dead fish swims with the tide.
http://smuttygifts.com/
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 16/1/04 at 12:37 AM |
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... I would buy a chopper but I have to face facts I may be fit and forty and for certain.......... not wanting to be a sad looking forty year old
geezer on a Chopper. I rode one a few years back and they are just as I remember them ten tons of top heavy steel that wobbles if you get to ten miles
per hour down the steepest hill with a gale following.
250 would buy a nice seat or a set of gauges or a nice red storage case for tools................................mmmmmmmm
so I wont buy one............... and the value of the collectors one will dive.....and they will have to wait another thirty years before the price
rises to 1500......could get a nice seven going on that
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nick205
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| posted on 16/1/04 at 08:30 AM |
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I never had one as a kid, I had a Raleigh Tomahawk which was the junior version.
I do have one now though, which I found in Greenwich market a few years ago. I don't think the guy knew what it was though - he was happy with
£30 for it. It is currently waiting restoration, which will be after the car is built.
It is true though that they were crap to ride then and still is now - fashion eh?
Cheers
Nick
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splitrivet
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| posted on 16/1/04 at 10:45 AM |
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I was too old for the chopper,the penny farthing was the bike to have when I was a kid
Cheers,
Bob
I used to be a Werewolf but I'm alright nowwoooooooooooooo
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Peteff
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| posted on 16/1/04 at 11:03 AM |
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Well I had a boneshaker. You had to push it with your feet and it didn't steer but you have to keep up with the times. There's an almost
complete Raleigh Chopper upstairs as we speak, in the spare room. It only needs a gear change cover and tyres. I now have a Giant touring bike which
has 48mph on the speedo as my top speed (downhill with a tailwind) , nostalgia's out of date I think.
yours, Pete.
[Edited on 16/1/04 by Peteff]
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Mark H
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| posted on 16/1/04 at 01:15 PM |
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i had one!
..whilst my cousin had a grifter. Ah happy days!
It was made of cast iron. I came last in the Luton wide scout bike race...
And another time, when i went round a corner at high speed, the larger rear wheel came out, leaving me to land on my forehead, wich was nice.
It'll explain a lot though (before anyone else gets in!)
Mark Harrison and
Q986 KCP back from the dead...
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Viper
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| posted on 16/1/04 at 01:27 PM |
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I have had 2 choppers in my time, the first was an orange MK1 (longer seat and adjustable handlebars) the second was a speciel edition silver 5 speed
job....
a few friends had them, i had junked the forks in favour of a pair from a racer that had 27" wheels, straightened them out and kept the little
front wheel, extra long forks  easyrider styleee
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andyps
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| posted on 16/1/04 at 01:44 PM |
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I always felt the chopper was very poor for wheelies - presumably partly due to the weight, but also the inherent design made it difficult to get the
balance right for keeping the end up
Still always wanted one though and never had one.
Andy
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less
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Stu16v
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| posted on 16/1/04 at 06:55 PM |
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quote:
And another time, when i went round a corner at high speed, the larger rear wheel came out,
Not sure yours was a Chopper mate, I can only remember them with one back wheel.....
Hehe, I did the racer fork thing too. Couldnt pedal it anywhere without wheelying
Dont just build it.....make it!
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DrEagle
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| posted on 16/1/04 at 10:42 PM |
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I never got a bike for Christmas, all I got one year was an empty shoe box, my dad spent all Christmas and New Year tying to convince me that it was
Action Man “Deserter”!!!
What really rubbed salt into the room was when my birthday came round and a got another empty shoe box, allegedly it was the 1st Action Man’s mate!!!
My parents were so poor, once my mum sent me next door with a button and I had to ask the neighbour to sew a shirt on to it!
Never be afraid to try something new!
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark with no budget,
where as a large group of professionals spent millions building the Titanic!
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chrisg
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| posted on 16/1/04 at 11:10 PM |
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I've always had a huge Chopper.
Actually I did and I almost disembowled myself when the front wheel caught in a drain and I caught the full force of the handle bars in the guts.
Not so much padding then either..........
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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DEAN C.
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| posted on 17/1/04 at 01:23 PM |
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I always wanted a black one(bike of course!). Couldn't afford one and my next door neighbour had a new one for christmas,really pissed me
off.
Believe it or not I built my own bike out of bits of other bikes,so 30 years later nothing has changed much except I built the bike a lot quicker than
my Indy is taking.
Two months before I'm forty and yes,I remember the envy of wanting nothing else but a Raliegh Chopper ............
The good thing was my bike had 26" wheels and pissed all over my mates Chopper...........
Another sad old git!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once I've finished a project why do I start another?
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