Raleigh Chopper

[Arran]

What looks even more cool are kids riding vintage bikes.

Last summer I spotted a kid that must have been about 7 years old riding an Eagle Dodger. It looked like an imitation of the Raleigh Strika with the same style forks. I can't find any info about this bike.

[spuggybridge]

Both myself and my partner were at Ingoldmells this bank holiday weekend and saw a couple there, the male riding a Raleigh Chopper and the female a Raleigh Grifter, looked cool as anything to me...I was quite envious

[Arran]

I have been wondering what will happen to all the preserved Raleigh Choppers when the 50 something owners become too old for them in their retirement years.

I can't honestly see many kids wanting to ride them around. Therefore a danger exists that in 15 or so years time their value will plummet and many will end up down the tip.

[Richard1978]

People pay silly money for a Raleigh Chopper but you almost never see anybody riding them. What happens to them? Do they just get hung on living room walls or something similar?

A friend told me that whenever he visited his local tip back in the 1980s and early 1990s there was always a Raleigh Chopper to be found. Nobody wanted them back then any more than 15 year old flared trousers!

Yes there were unfashionable until nostalgia for the 1970s started in the 1990s.

[Arran]

People pay silly money for a Raleigh Chopper but you almost never see anybody riding them. What happens to them? Do they just get hung on living room walls or something similar?

A friend told me that whenever he visited his local tip back in the 1980s and early 1990s there was always a Raleigh Chopper to be found. Nobody wanted them back then any more than 15 year old flared trousers!

[George 1978]

One thing that Nottingham has brought to the world is good old Raleigh.

[sixtyten]

After 50 years of waiting, I finally have an Ultra Violet Chopper Mk2!!

Shame its so small!

[darren]

Re: Raleigh Chopper

i can well imagine an original chopper would go for good money.

i had an original one and i wish i still had it.

one of the best bikes raleigh ever made.

i saw one in a shop window for yrs up until around 3 yrs ago.

it was a shop that sold tools and was in good nick.

wish id asked about it,really regret that.

in fact one of the best period.

how different was the one mate with all these modifications from the original.

I learned to ride on one of the original choppers.The MkIII was spoilt with the health And Safety modifications.You can buy a car for what an exceptional original would fetch.Someold friend one said he knew someone who specialised in restoring them to original and they fetched tidy sums!

[themilkman]

Re: Raleigh Chopper

I had a purple one and i loved it.........brilliant bike.

Re: Raleigh Chopper

You can't really go uphill on one though.

[memoman]

Re: Raleigh Chopper

I learned to ride on one of the original choppers.The MkIII was spoilt with the health And Safety modifications.You can buy a car for what an exceptional original would fetch.Someold friend one said he knew someone who specialised in restoring them to original and they fetched tidy sums!

[sixtyten]

Re: Raleigh Chopper

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-18136787

Re: Raleigh Chopper

I've got a MK III from more recent times....the changes Raleigh made irk me a lot-3 speed handle bar mounted gears, the handle bars are different too as are the handle grips, not on the main chassis, a 5 gear Derailleur would have been better....then theres the separate backrest and seat, why they couldn't have kept the original style seats beyond me as it looks more comfy and easier to lean back on....You can't even simply buy the older parts and stick them on the MK III due to size differences in the connections etc....Health & Safety ruins things....

[sixtyten]

Raleigh Chopper

[Heather74]

Raleigh Chopper

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