Fuchs915 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 (edited) On 10/7/2019 at 1:53 PM, Dr Rock said: First 2 wheeled bike - Raleigh Chipper All the best people started on a Chipper, Doc!! Edited October 9, 2019 by Fuchs915 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Rock Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 it was free as well- my Mum won it in a newspaper competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnonut Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 If you had a Chipper you moved to a Chooper. If you had a Striker you moved to Grifter. Those were the rules and you were one gang or the other 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesworth Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 29 minutes ago, Wingnonut said: If you had a Chipper you moved to a Chooper. If you had a Striker you moved to Grifter. Those were the rules and you were one gang or the other 😎 Ha that's so true! I went the Striker / Grifter route but was always secretly enviously of my neighbours Chopper (ooh er). At least gear changes were a more ergonomic affair on the Grifter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Rock Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 10 minutes ago, Lesworth said: At least gear changes were a more ergonomic affair on the Grifter. Ahh, the grip shift! 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatsix777 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I went straight to a Chopper, which I modified, but my mate had a Commando. A bit light weight in my opinion. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R2D2 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 52 minutes ago, Lesworth said: Ha that's so true! I went the Striker / Grifter route but was always secretly enviously of my neighbours Chopper (ooh er). At least gear changes were a more ergonomic affair on the Grifter. I had a blue Boxer which I always thought was the little man's Grifter. Mine was "grifter" blue with the union jack motif. Now if you were really posh you had a Vektar.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJ Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I'm an ex Commando and Grifter lad ! Happy carefree days, i'd be on it for hours and hours I did the longest paper round In my village as a lad which included treks through dark woods so that 'scrambler' style of bike was perfect. A chopper would have had me over the handlebars with semi exposed tree roots! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SP72 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Green Striker here - the Grifter was a heavy fucker IIRC My mate had the same Striker but with reverse pedal braking 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jevvy Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 First bike was a Budgie Then a Tomahawk: The a Raleigh Milk Race (god I loved that bike): Then I fell out of love with road riding and went through a number of crappy MTB's until getting some GT's and the Trek. No bikes bought since 1993! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phill Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I had a Chopper when I was very young - loved it. I was very naive back then and left it in the bike rack outside the playground while I played, unlocked. Guess what, when I came out it was gone. It didn't even occur to me that it had been stolen so I walked home and asked my mum if she had taken it home with her (I'm not even sure she was there in the first place!!). That was the beginning of the slippery slope into bitterness and twistedness which has resulted in me trusting nothing and no one. God I hate people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnonut Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 1 hour ago, jevvy said: Then a Tomahawk: Wow Tomahawk! Forgot they even existed! Memory point on the daft saddle 😋 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesworth Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 17 hours ago, SP72 said: - the Grifter was a heavy fucker IIRC Yes, it certainly was. Mine was red (red is faster as we all know) and almost always had a playing card sellotaped to the forks for added coolness 😎. It ended its days with cow horn handle bars and painted orange (I was a little daft in my youth). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Grifter for me , I still remember the disappointment of the twist grip gearchange breaking a very sad day indeed 😪 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmakanix Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Outlaw Chopper anyone? I'll see if i can find a pic' of my tandem Grifter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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