chopper anyone..

#1 10th September 2004, 00:37

Anyone remember riding about on one of these in the 70's ..

..I had the chipper the smaller version of the chopper ,as i was to short for the chopper...(Emote: reallymad) ..that really used to piss me off.

#2 10th September 2004, 16:51

I remember them but I never had one. I didn't have a proper bike till the early 80's and it was a silver girls fold-up bike (fab, eh?!) (Emote: biggrin).

#3 10th September 2004, 16:54

My brother had a yellow chopper (Emote: smile)
They've brought them out again they are red & I think cost £299 (Emote: eekpurple)

#4 19th September 2004, 14:04

Yeh i remember the chopper. I also remember my brother having a grifter, remember those?...I was blessed with a BMX though. (Emote: biggrin)

#5 19th September 2004, 20:28

I had one of these as a kid, probably the successor to the Chopper.

It was a Raleigh Grifter, a sort of pre-BMX type bike.

#6 19th September 2004, 20:37

Yay! I had a Grifter too! (Emote: pirate)

#7 19th September 2004, 22:48

i had a green bike 1 xmas n me bro had a red un....i think they were racers...not sure tho
thinking about it they were folding bikes cause we were moving round with the forces [1 edits; Last edit by anitajune at 21:48:46 Sun Sep 19 2004]

#8 20th September 2004, 20:42

Used to have a Tomahawk myself, a smaller version of Chopper. My brother had a Chopper that seemed to have constant rear tyre problems, nice & comfy to ride although the seats did take a week to dry after it rained.

#9 27th March 2005, 14:02

Yeah, Choppers were cool, my bro had one, a red one i think. It was hard work to get anywhere on it unless ofcourse you were going downhill. I used to have a thing about the gear selector lever!(Emote: roundnround)

#10 29th March 2005, 20:59

I (finally) learnt to ride a bike on a homebrew "Easyrider" chopper, leant by a mate. Probably not the easiest option, the handlebars were at shoulder height. It was 1969, aaaagh.

#11 29th March 2005, 23:26

I had a grifter n all. The seat was huge and so padded. I think it had three gears on like a gripshift thing if I remember right.

#12 30th March 2005, 10:12

Oh yes I had a Big Purple Chopper (Emote: mischief) (sounds quite rude) the bike was fab

#13 30th March 2005, 10:23

I had a chopper. The new ones are all politically correct, moved gear stick to stop you knocking your nuts off

M. (Emote: smileyellow)

#14 9th April 2005, 13:05

I don't remember what my first bike was, but one day the handlebars did this weird Uri Geller thing and just fell off while I was riding it.
After that I had some kind of BMX-style thing, which got nicked.
At some point I had a second-hand Chopper for a short while, but really didn't care for it much.
Next I had a Grifter. Lovely bike, completely indestructible. That also got nicked, along with a section of the railings it was chained to.
After that, my idiot father decided I should have a racing bike, which was no bloody use at all, and I lost interest in the whole thing. (Emote: rollineyesyellow)

#15 3rd June 2005, 00:03

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Quote: steelkilla at 10***58;23***58;17 Wed Mar 30 2005
I had a chopper. The new ones are all politically correct, moved gear stick to stop you knocking your nuts off

They totally missed the point with the new chopper tho -- the gear shifterer was the *whole point* of the chopper ! . . . i dunno (Emote: shake)

#16 4th June 2005, 08:37

I got a Chopper the xmas everyone else got Grifters.

It was like having a pair of flares when everyone else had drainpipes!

Wish I still had it now. The original ones are worth a fortune.

Scooterham · #17 16th July 2005, 13:14

yeah i remeber then..........i had the a mini mini chopper called and pls don't laugh 'a budgie' ........will try and dig out a pik if one exists lol

billy_brown · #18 3rd September 2005, 21:11

my kid brother had a budgie, youre not the only one! it got nicked if i remember. my first bike was a kite, a girls bike. ideal for a self conscious 12 year ond lad. cheers dad!