Anybody have one in the 70s, i did andthought i was king of the world. My dad bought me one in 1975 and it cost 40 quid, half his wages for the week. I sold it a year later for the same amount but wish i hadnt, anyone with one now should get on e bay there fetching up to 500 quid?

I had one of these bikes - great fun!

I let it go when I was about 16 or 17, because I was no longer using it. I think it wnet to a cousin or something.

I came across an advertisement for one in a 1970s magazine the other day when clearing out the garage. Great memories.

Joe

Great fun until you breaked too hard then :D lads will know what i mean :hihi: what a place to put a gear stick.

I believe Raleigh are making the new Chopper mark 3.

My son had a mark 2 in the seventies and just about wore it out, he really became attached to it.

Happy days!

I had a Chopper and the Tomohawk which I preffered. I also owned a Grifter.

my grom bought me one around 1977 i thought i was evil kneivel on it,we used to build ramps on the pit field behind the manor top fire station and jump over fires...

I had a purple one but my dad had the first go on it!

I had a Raleigh Strika as a kid, and I think it's till in my attic somewhere.

I always wanted a Chopper (make rude comments at your own peril!:) )

K x

i got my 8 year old son the mark 3 at the weekend,he thinks its great trouble is all his mates want one now could be an expensive christmas round us this year for a few families oops.
funny thing is he keeps getting stoped by older people who want a look at it and the comments he gets are ,wow i used to have one,where did you get it from and most of all wheres the gear lever gone,moving the gear lever was a good idea i had one when i was younger and the gear lever could be a real pain in the b***s.been wanting a go on it all week will have to have a go at the weekend

I never owned a Raleigh Chopper, preferring speedier racing bikes by Sun and Carlton back in the seventies of my childhood. I thought the Chopper a bit of a joke, frankly. The 'apehang' handlebars [seemingly modelled on those of Harley Davidson 'Easy Rider' style motorbikes] struck me as ludicrous, and I could not get the hang of them, when riding those owned by friends. The whole bike seemed fiendishly designed as an unsafe, unstable accident- waiting- to- happen. The three speed gears were puny and notoriously easy to break too. I still think my friend Gary bears me a grudge for 'knackering' his, as he elegantly phrased it. No, sorry, not for me.

Hi,

I remember the delights of the Raleigh Chopper. I had a rarer mark 1 version. This had an adjustable handle bars and a longer seat then the mark II. Mine was in orange. It also had a round gear knob unlike the mark II which had a T bar lever. It lacked the rear rack of the mark II.

It was a great bike and the envy of many. Came off a few times over those years.

I stopped riding it in the late 70s. Too my shame, it ending up in a skip.

Great days!

Dean of Disco

Anybody have one in the 70s, i did andthought i was king of the world. My dad bought me one in 1975 and it cost 40 quid, half his wages for the week. I sold it a year later for the same amount but wish i hadnt, anyone with one now should get on e bay there fetching up to 500 quid?

i never had 1 cause we cudnt afford 1 but i used to play on my mates and i think there great.i`d av 1 now if i cud find 1.not the new 1 it as 2 b the old 1

Chopper was the king, I had a a Tomahawk and kept getting called a spaz by the older Chopper lads.

Raleigh recently released a reissue of the Chopper (albeit with a few saftey mods!) for 200 quid. Sadly no longer made in Nottingham, and not sure of current availability.

My big sister had a chopper, it was so cool:cool: she even had those tassle things that you stuck in the ends of the handle bars, I always wanted it.
What did I get?
"A Budgie!"
A purple budgie, you know the ones with the solid wheels that used to give you a big bruise on your arse everytime you went off a kerb:o:o

Christ the grifter was one heavy mother, i remember i had a Raleigh burner in the mid 80's, happy days of school holidays and "adventures"

wasnt the budgie the junior version of the chopper? I seem to remember having one as my "first" proper bike?!

There's a shop in Worksop that has about half a dozen Choppers for sale at £80 each. Don't know if they are originals.

Anybody interested the shop is on Carlton Rd just the town side of the railway station.

wasnt the budgie the junior version of the chopper? I seem to remember having one as my "first" proper bike?!

I don`t know, but it was crap and painful!!
:(

Here is some pics my of 1976 Chopper, its in good condition and just needs du
sting down and tyres pumping up. Its been in my spare room for years now.http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/Bellman222/Picture1509.jpg
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I had a Raleigh Chopper, it was purple with pink writing (tasteful!!!!). I loved it but I remember if you went too fast, the small front wheel meant you easily lost control. Happy memories.:D

We could never afford one, my parents died in 1973 (Cue violins) and I was brought up by then by my 21 year old sister and her 25 year old hubby and they were just married and couldnt afford things like that for me.

My next door neighbour had one though, and I remember standing in my garden and watching as his dad proudly pushed the chopper out of their garage and to me it seemed a mile long!
It was bright yellow, and that seat! The seat seemed to go on forever and I remember staring bug eyed at the gear stick.

That afternoon my buddy practised hard to ride it, the handlebars made it difficult to steer but he soon got the hang of it.

A few years later I managed to scrounge an old wrecked red one and my buddy and I fixed it up so I had a chopper too, by then he had a racing bike and he would zoom ahead of me but I didnt care!


Now Im older, I STILL have a chopper, it isnt as long as the Raleigh one, and its sometimes a little TOO fast and...
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