martin clark
pinko bodger
+! to that
And Grifters were just bloody horrid.
And Grifters were just bloody horrid.
M cousin had that exact same bike. The year changing was rubbish.The really discerning child had a Chopper with derailleur gears.
How f**king cool is that?
Didn't a brit cycle up mt Vontoux on a chopper?
I am pretty sure the Moulton 20" rims are 406 so you would need to change the back rim to be able to use them.Thanks for the tip. Are they real, imperial 20 inch (451) do you know or metric (406) claiming to be 20s? The front wheel on this one is metric but the back's not. 406 is the BMX standard so there are a lot of rims and tyres, 451 is pretty rare these days.
My age 10 birthday present.
Stock photo of a 1966 Schwinn Stingray.
I had a Dawes something or other 5 speed racer but always fancied a chopper until I had a go on one. The riding position didn’t suit, probably because I was tall kid and it felt cumbersome, uncomfortable and very slow. Most of my mates had racers at the time but there was one really annoying kid who hung out with us, who rode a chopper.
I remember once after he caught up, persuading him that it was possible to ride through a ford without getting wet if you hit it fast enough and that we had all done it. He then hit it at I guess about 20 mph and got drenched from head to foot. We were in hysterics.
Oh Tony, you must have been such fun as a kid.I was exactly the target age for a Chopper, but even as a kid realised it was not a good bike after a quick ride of friends despite the trendy looks. I remember it being ridiculously hard work, heavy, slow and unstable. The pretty low-quality 3 speed conventional (drop bars) bike I had ran just ran rings around them. I could easily cycle to the next town, up hills etc, which is not something you’d ever want to do on a Chopper!
I was 11 or 12 - you could 'grow into' the bike due to the girly low cross bar (very modernist). The main roads in Bristol in the 60s weren't at all bad but cycling up the hills to the Downs could be, er, good exercise.Were you a youngster or a grown up at the time? I don't recall any youngsters having one but a few mums and dads did. I had a go on one once along an unmade road and it was relatively hard work.
I had a Raleigh Commando. "This was a Raleigh Eighteen with a chopper-style seat. It was aimed at the youth market. "
Raleigh Grifter here - that was a bloody heavy bike.
Then caught the BMX wave with a Raleigh Ultra Burner which was briefly like this one: