Hmm, now what does this remind you of ?
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2008/05/vws-retro-bonanza-bike-its-70s-all-over.html
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2008/05/vws-retro-bonanza-bike-its-70s-all-over.html
Volkswagen Retro Bike
- Thread starter Van Nick
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twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
My Chopper 
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
Front wheel is too big. Original was 16" front, 20" rear.
I never wanted one, honest. I never looked at my mates with theirs and thought 'Why didn't I get one of those for Christmas?' no, never did that. I was really happy with the yellow banana bike my Dad bought me that all the other kids laughed at but I showed them. I really showed them when I started to build proper bikes. Proper choppers with long forks, low saddle and feet forward with a fat rear tyre and skinny front. So what if my bikes were 10'-12' long with the turning circle of a bus. I made them and I showed them. I really showed them I wasn't jealous of their pretend choppers. That's right I showed them.
I never wanted one, honest. I never looked at my mates with theirs and thought 'Why didn't I get one of those for Christmas?' no, never did that. I was really happy with the yellow banana bike my Dad bought me that all the other kids laughed at but I showed them. I really showed them when I started to build proper bikes. Proper choppers with long forks, low saddle and feet forward with a fat rear tyre and skinny front. So what if my bikes were 10'-12' long with the turning circle of a bus. I made them and I showed them. I really showed them I wasn't jealous of their pretend choppers. That's right I showed them.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Ah but on the original chopper, you put the passenger on the rear rack - then jumped off a curb, with howls from the rear...... The original chopper did have a message on the seat that it was not for two...
Loved mine, but just not cool when I had it - the Grifter was king !!
Loved mine, but just not cool when I had it - the Grifter was king !!
Alan Frame
Gnu
- Location
- Lost In Space
VW have form for doing this sort of thing...IMHO, the New Beetle ain't a patch on the old one.
It's hard to improve on a classic.
It's hard to improve on a classic.
Rhythm Thief
Veteran
Alan Frame said:
Likewise the new vs. old Range Rover, or Mini, or almost anything you care to mention.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
The closest I got to a Grifter was having one of the knobby tyres on the back of my chopper. And even that blew open. It ripped right around the side wall and the tube came out, still inflated.fossyant said:
Home builts rock!
Just wonderng if VW will bring out a new retro eco transport will it be supply your own horse?
mickle
innit
- Location
- 53.933606, -1.076131
hubgearfreak
Über Member
Van Nick said:
shite marketing
mickle
innit
- Location
- 53.933606, -1.076131
This is a VW bike. Apparently. http://www.chainganglowrider.com/Bikes - Used & Customs.htm
