All I want for Christmas is...

[Chris_D]

I am so envious 8) I wasn't allowed gears and I had to settle for this (I loved this bike though - great skids, jump off when still moving and watch it crash ) -

My kid bro had a brown one of them. He loved it but really wanted a chopper like mine.
He wanted me to give it to him if i ever got a new bike but sadly it was finally killed off in a freak wheelie-fail-handlebar&frame-bending freak accident. He was utterly inconsolable...for about 2 minutes.

 

[rosskins]

These bikes did have a mind of their own :w00t: Thinking back though, there was loads of gravel on the roads in the 70s to do skids - not so much now. I drive down the same roads today (to my parents) and they are totally tarmac'd and skid free :roll: Some might say "Safe" :chicken:

 

[Highlander]

Raleigh Chopper was far too posh for us peasants in the north of Scotland....think there might have been 1 kid in school that had one( there always is)
Sturmey Archer 3 speed gears as far as I can remember.

 

[ggmiller]

If we all had rear windows like Chris's how were we not getting burgled every 5 minutes?

 

[Anonymous]

I am SO gonna regret postin this but.....
Chris & chopper bike.jpg
LOL

I think most people would be hiding the "evidence" :lol:

 

[Mr Tidy]

Chris_D - nice chopper! :lol:

But as a mere youngster you have to be aware that you had an LCI in BMW speak!

A school class-mate of mine had an orange original with the T-bar gearchange mounted on the cross-bar tube frames (between your conkers) and the adjustable handle-bar yoke - hope he still has it now!

 

[Chris_D]

Lci?
Actually, it was a totally unexpected, but welcome surprise and i was over the moon when i got it as i seem to remember.
I recall i was actually trying to coax the parents into getting me some footy boots so i could join in me mates kickabouts at the park down the road. They came later in march for my birthday, as well as a liverpool at home strip. Yay!
However, if i wore the strip to the kickabouts i'd invariably get the living sh!t kicked out of me due to most of the others being everton fans.

Edit. Tawdry spelling

 

[pvr]

Life Cycle Impulse.

Generally a small model update which fixes all the things that failed on the previous model. Yours is the non LCI version (obviously) :evil:

 

[Smartbear]

I survived chopper ownership in the seventies as well chris (apart from riding into a parked car once)
I'm not owning up to sandals & socks though
Rob

 

[pvr]

I'm not owning up to sandals & socks though

Now or then?

 

[Smartbear]

I'm not owning up to sandals & socks though

Now or then?

Ok, il come clean-this was in the "bc" era (before chopper) times were different then.

 

[Marlon]

Smartbear looking very smart there

 

[pvr]

He is the one on the three wheeler :evil:

 

[Smartbear]

Smartbear looking very smart there

That'll be the Clarks sandals
Rob

 

[Smartbear]

He is the one on the three wheeler :evil:

That's my little sister (I think she was running runflats on the trike-the ride comfort was appalling)
Rob

 

[Chris_D]

I'm not owning up to sandals & socks though

Now or then?

Ok, il come clean-this was in the "bc" era (before chopper) times were different then.

lol. Busted for socks and sandals!
and the way u'v snapped that pic makes it look like a screengrab from a security video.
had you 2 just pulled off a caper? stealing apples from Mr.s Featheringbottom's appletree next door?

WANTED: for grand theft. kid in socks and sandals and kid on trike. Both with guilty expressions and applecores stuffed in pockets.
Have you seen these miscreants?
Call crimeline NOW!

 

[Anonymous]

Got my crimbo pack yesterday, 8)

 

[Chris_D]

Got my crimbo pack yesterday, 8)

i love christmas tree deccies.
theyre the ones that twirl around and catch the light arent they? nice.
:wink:

 

[SpiketheBike]

Why were you kept in a cage Smart bear?

 

[firebobby]

Why were you kept in a cage Smart bear?

Because he's a bear