Iconic designer dies.

I used to have a purple chopper, whilst one of my mates had a red one and the other green, IIRC.

They were a class bike in their day.
 
I wasn't old enough for a Chopper though my brother had one. I had a Budgie instead.

I think the allure was partly down to how dangerous they were, you were literally minutes from serious injury on a Chopper, if not death!
 
Jokester said:
I wasn't old enough for a Chopper though my brother had one. I had a Budgie instead.

I think the allure was partly down to how dangerous they were, you were literally minutes from serious injury on a Chopper, if not death!
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Nah, it was because they were very nearly motorbikes! A small adjustment and they actually were.
 
didnt have a chopper, a bit too young, but had a mini Chopper - a Raleigh Tomahawk

Thank christ the gonads still lived in the happy place deep upstairs ... and then came BMX's
 
neil473 said:
didnt have a chopper, a bit too young, but had a mini Chopper - a Raleigh Tomahawk
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Me too!

Vroom, vroom!
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Still have the scar on my left elbow from the wipeout I had at the Shepton Mallet Showground in 1976 :D, my grandparents were attending the Caravan club raleigh there and my parents had foisted me off on them for a week of the school holidays.

The Chopper was immense, insane and totally fun ;) and with the small addition of a playing card pegged to run against the spokes of the back wheel was even meaner :D :D

Thankyou Alan Oakley for the great childhood you memories, R.I.P.
 
There was a tv program on at the time called C.H.I.P.S. Me on my Chopper and my mates on their Grifters patrolling the back lanes of Sunderland. Happy days.
 
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