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[Dogtrousers]

I had a chopper Sprint GT. Cycled hundreds of miles on it
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Wow. A bike that's both a Chopper and a Racer. I don't remember those. You must have been cooler than the Cresta bear,

 

[Adam4868]

Red and everyone had one or wanted one,great for carrying your mates pillion on the back...bad for your crown jewels with that gear stick though.
I hate the colour red aswell...sold a red bike because I didn't like the colour 🙄

 

[presta]

I was too old!
I believe the Chopper was launched in 1969 - The photo in my current avatar photo was taken in 1969.

I don't think the Chopper would have been ideal for the E8 25mile TT course.

I was the right sort of age to get taken in by gimmicks but my father wasn't, so I didn't get one. My father grew up during the great depression and considered himself to be lucky to have anything, so he regarded fashion as a waste of money.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Another red.

Had some red and white plastic tassels streaming from the ends of the bars. Cool!

 

[dan_bo]

I had a red Tomahawk then a red Raleigh Ace.

 

[Adam4868]

Another red.

Had some red and white plastic tassels streaming from the ends of the bars. Cool!

Ok I'm going to have to tell you...plastic tassels wasn't cool,I'd have let you off with a playing card in the spokes.
Bet you had a basket on the front aswell 🙄

 

[ianrauk]

I hate the colour red aswell...sold a red bike because I didn't like the colour

A man after my own heart

 

[T4tomo]

I had to make do with Raleigh Commando.

My cousin had a red one. At some point he welded for extensions onto it and moved the B shell up the lower tube towards the handlebars and made it a real laid back cruiser. It still handled terribly but looked even cooler.

 

[ianrauk]

when we all got into "racers"

I got rid of the Chopper and Grifter for a Coventry Eagle racer.

 

[Milkfloat]

I went through the set of Boxer, Strika and Grifter before moving on to road bikes and a stint on BMX. I never had a Chopper and was always envious.

 

[craigwend]

Mine was Yellow (or as they say in the ad, Lemon?.
what colour was yours?
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I had a Purple Chopper, thank goodness for antibiotics

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Golden Yellow MK1, although it claimed to only have 3 gears, if you tied a bungy chord around the gearshift & pulled it back towards the seat you found the secret 4th gear.

 

[Sharky]

I was the right sort of age to get taken in by gimmicks but my father wasn't, so I didn't get one. My father grew up during the great depression and considered himself to be lucky to have anything, so he regarded fashion as a waste of money.

My dad made me do with a Hill Special fixed gear, when I was 10!

 

[Toshiba Boy]

I got rid of the Chopper and Grifter for a Coventry Eagle racer.

My Dad, who was a racing cyclist in the late 50's early 60's, taught me to ride a bike at a very early age, but absolutely refused to let me have a Chopper bike like my mates, so for me it was always "normal" bikes and from age 11, road bikes, top man my old Dad

 

[Reynard]

I was too young for a chopper, but I remember my mum tut tut tutting every time she saw one, saying they were dangerous. Wouldn't mind having a go on one, just to see what they're actually like.

The bikes I had were either hand-me-downs or skip specials - kiddies bikes and shopping bikes mainly, and one rather nice French or Belgian single speed that I now deeply regret moving on.

Umm, and I currently have five bikes, all of which are either red or mostly so. I loooove red bikes!