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Would be good to create a timeline of bikes I have owned with pictures. I loved them all.
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Would be good to create a timeline of bikes I have owned with pictures. I loved them all.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
The Chopper was expensive back in the day too. An early example of style over substance but I can't see kids today liking it and adults reminiscing aren't going to buy one either.£250?!
Smokin Joe
Squire
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
It isn't, and never was, a bicycle. It's a childs toy from the same stable as the Hoola Hoop and the Space Hopper. Producing crap like that led to the day when Raleigh ceased to be taken seriously as a cycle manufacturer. Could you see Colnago soiling their hands with that abomination?
The poll lacks a third option;
"God almighty, not again".
The poll lacks a third option;
"God almighty, not again".
djb1971
Legendary Member
- Location
- Far Far Away
I used to have a big purple chopper when I was younger.
Sadly, with age, I no longer have anything big and purple. I loved my chopper. Giving backies to my mates, hitting the gear lever with my gentlemen parts, snapping the sturmey gear linkage every other day. Some kid in the next street had a big cb type antenna on his, and tassels ffs!
My everlasting memory of it will be flying through, yes through the handlebars, after taking a jump on our homemade ramp in the park. It was one of those ramps only kids can make, half a dozen house bricks with a bendy bit of board resting up against them. You went downhill when you hit the ramp before leaving the top, that's if it didn't collapse as you approached it. The chopper wasn't made for tricks as I discovered, the tiny front wheel dropped like a bag of spanners as I attempted to jump, it was like someone putting a stick through the spokes. The next thing I remember is flying like superman through the air, then hitting the deck. Being a kid, it didn't hurt. If I did it now, I'd lose teeth and break bones.
How we laughed!
Sadly, with age, I no longer have anything big and purple. I loved my chopper. Giving backies to my mates, hitting the gear lever with my gentlemen parts, snapping the sturmey gear linkage every other day. Some kid in the next street had a big cb type antenna on his, and tassels ffs!
My everlasting memory of it will be flying through, yes through the handlebars, after taking a jump on our homemade ramp in the park. It was one of those ramps only kids can make, half a dozen house bricks with a bendy bit of board resting up against them. You went downhill when you hit the ramp before leaving the top, that's if it didn't collapse as you approached it. The chopper wasn't made for tricks as I discovered, the tiny front wheel dropped like a bag of spanners as I attempted to jump, it was like someone putting a stick through the spokes. The next thing I remember is flying like superman through the air, then hitting the deck. Being a kid, it didn't hurt. If I did it now, I'd lose teeth and break bones.
How we laughed!
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
It's actually quite a vile looking monstrosity
ETA - 15Kg!!!! Eeeek!
ETA - 15Kg!!!! Eeeek!
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
Love how their site says it's got a 3 speed hub while the pictures have a 7 speed arrangement.
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Over The Hill
Guru
- Location
- Ridden off into the sunset
I really don't know where to start. It just looks so bad. Everything the original had is missing. It was a Chopper because it had a chopper seat and the chain guard that ran at the same angle and style. This seems to have been made by accountants with bits from the parts bin.
Back then we had a culture of Easy Rider and youth was rebelling against the accepted world. The Chopper fitted to that way. What is it now? A bit of a silly novelty bike for dads to buy their kids to try to re-live some past?
Nigel-YZ1
Guru
- Location
- Somewhere else... maybe soon.
Looks like a similar foul up to BMW 'bringing back' the Mini.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
How the heck can they have got the styling so bad - they ahve the original to copy and have made it look terrible.
the last "modern chopper" at least looked like the original bar the gear changer.
I had a raleigh Commando - it wasn't as cool as the chopper but it was a damn sight faster and more stable
the last "modern chopper" at least looked like the original bar the gear changer.
I had a raleigh Commando - it wasn't as cool as the chopper but it was a damn sight faster and more stable
Joshua Plumtree
Approaching perfection from a distance.
Breezing down Runton Road hill on me Chopper, with 'Born To Be Wild' playing over and over in me head. Ah... precious memories! 
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
i had a chipper, which was a chopper but smaller and single speed. so that thing is a big chipper with deraillier gears, not a chopper...
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
See now THAT is the definitive and most evolved Chopper. The things in the OP are just kludges, bitsas, part-bin pastiches of the worst kind.Purge your eyes with this
