Ebay scrap Chopper wants £320!

[Brandane]

Surely this seller is deluded..... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raleigh-C...0942678147?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item2578ee6083

"Buy it now" price is £320 . I suppose they only need to find one mug (who hasn't looked at other better examples on the same site). Maybe they forgot to put the decimal point between the 3 and the 2?

 

[tyred]

I have one in only slight worse condition....

 

[Cavalol]

If it's got the proper handlebars stick it on eBay for £700!

 

[Spokesmann]

Chopper prices were pretty buoyant about 5 years ago, good examples of the Mk1 get strong prices, esp the rare variations. Crisp examples of the Mk2 go for around the £300 mark. Special edition Chopper possibly twice that. I've seen quite a few comedians come into the market expecting to get top dollar for what is, and has been said - scrap. The clowns are deluded. Period. if thats worth £320, how much doe that make my very clean Mk2 worth...

 

[avalon]

Just needs a bit of T cut and chrome cleaner to out shine your's Mike.

 

[biggs682]

another very clean bike you have there mike

 

[Brandane]

If it's got the proper handlebars stick it on eBay for £700!

Doesn't even have that in its favour:

It has the wrong handle bars as my wife had these changed on purchase to normal handle bars.

if thats worth £320, how much does that make my very clean Mk2 worth...

Now that IS a nice example of a Chopper, right down to the 70s lights and speedometer. Obviously had a lot of TLC and money spent on it, unlike the POS on ebay. I sincerely hope the seller gets nowhere near that price, it would only serve to feed greed.

 

[Brandane]

Just made an offer for the ebay scrapper. 99 pence was as low an offer as ebay would allow, and even at that I feel I am being overly generous! I left the following message for the seller....

£320? Surely some mistake. Have you missed the decimal point after the 3? That scrapper belongs in a skip!

Wonder if I will get a reply. I just hope he doesn't accept my offer, it will cost me a run to the local tip.

 

[Spokesmann]

Because it is meant to be a Chopper Sprint he thinks its worth big bucks, as has been said it has the wrong bars.

I've ridden one of these and is the most uncomfortable and unstable ride ever. Remember Keegan back in the 70s/80s in Superstars riding one of these jokes?

 

[Cavalol]

Is that the bike he fell off on the track and got 25th degree gravel rash burns?

 

[Spokesmann]

Is that the bike he fell off on the track and got 25th degree gravel rash burns?

You remember it well, that came after the mega speed wobble. Classic stuff.

 

[Spokesmann]

Here is a link, they did use Chopper Sprints, but this seems to show Kev having fun on a 27 incher ... time has skewed my memory!


View: http://youtu.be/jEuOPLtcY9A

 

[EltonFrog]

I really wanted a chopper what I was a kid, but I wasn't allowed to have one. Now I could have I would probably hate it, though there looks like a nice mk1 on the bay ATM that I could BIN.

 

[Cavalol]

I always wanted one, then rode my mate's from Ellesmere Port to Chester and hated it. Also did I imagine it or was there a spate of people breaking various limbs falling off the things?
I do recall the front wheel would turn VERY quickly with it being small and because there wasn't really any weight being put on the front (due to high handlebars) this also made them very jittery, this probably being the cause of that.

I'd have one now but more for display use than riding. Spokesmann, your's is just fantastic!

 

[marshmella]

i see the seller is from my town, now look it ain't me honest