Raleigh Commando

[battyrat]

Re: Raleigh Commando

Hmmmm...fell into that one didn't I.Rolls eyes and laughs.

I ended up with stitches last time I got thrown from it,Head long into the side of a car.Kid's,high speeds,and commando bikes were not ment to mix.:cry:

I still have an ambition from way back then........I still want a chopper bike,lol.Even if it's to fulfill that dream of not having one at the time.

[Heather74]

Re: Raleigh Commando

sounds painful to me!!!

[sixtyten]

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Parants brought me a commando as they thought it was safer then a chopper.Chain guard used to slip into the chain and jam it.I was thrown numerous times at high speed from mine before ditching it into the local stream.They were seen at the time by the local kids as second rate and they were always laughed at.The chopper had style,but a commando which had the watered down look was always a little lame.Hated my commando with a vengance.Even to day the thought of that dark army green bike makes me cringe.Wished I had a bright red chopper instead.

Don't we all

[battyrat]

Re: Raleigh Commando

Parants brought me a commando as they thought it was safer then a chopper.Chain guard used to slip into the chain and jam it.I was thrown numerous times at high speed from mine before ditching it into the local stream.They were seen at the time by the local kids as second rate and they were always laughed at.The chopper had style,but a commando which had the watered down look was always a little lame.Hated my commando with a vengance.Even to day the thought of that dark army green bike makes me cringe.Wished I had a bright red chopper instead.

[Austin Maxi]

Re: Raleigh Commando

I had a Raleigh Commando - Black with the yellow and orange lettering like in the photos on page 1. Late in it's life it was fitted with a motorcycle style twist grip on the handlebars which made a motorbike revving sound when you twisted it.

Still, at least it never threw me over the handlebars like the racing bike I had which replaced it in the early '80s.

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Don't like the Tomahawk seat...I wish I had an original with high seat back rest instead of my MK 3....thanks for the info Sculper.

[Richard1978]

Re: Raleigh Commando

I've seen pictures of a proto-Chopper called a Ranger, with a similar frame but both wheels the same size.

Can't remember much else about it but I've got the feeling it was American

[Sculpher]

Re: Raleigh Commando

I think it went (descending) - Chopper, Tomahawk, Chipper, Budgie and Chippy. Source here

Re: Raleigh Commando

What were the ranges leading up to The Chopper?

[Heather74]

Re: Raleigh Commando

Sf I'm female one of five children, so we had loads of bikes between us over the years, my other brother Ian had a Chopper and a budgie and my younger brother had a BMX.

My uncle lived 5 minute walk for the local Co-Op not worth getting the car out for so yeah bet he loaded the trolly up with shopping and pushed it home!

Re: Raleigh Commando

My kitchen when I was a child growing up seemed massive-then one day my parents went back there and somehow got in-may have been on the excuse of a viewing-and the kitchen was tiny....Huggies pic's nice. The bikes exactly like the one in the ad isn't it Huggie....

The Commando looks like a smaller Chopper with bits cut off the Arrow Wedge frame and smaller handle bars....definitely influenced its design eh?

Huggie, are you male or female? Wondered seeing the pic of your sibs. Also, like the trolley in the background-I think I'm not alone in our generations having folks who once in a while nabbed a trolley after a big shop to cart food home and left it for a while in the back yard?

[branny]

Re: Raleigh Commando

It's strange how the mind plays tricks. The memory I had of the Commando was that it was quite a large bike but it doesn't look that big on these pictures.

[Heather74]

Re: Raleigh Commando

my brother with my sister working on his in our cousins yard

[branny]

Re: Raleigh Commando

There weren't many about when I were a lad. I can only think of one person I knew that had one. The majority had a Chopper.

[old git]

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Didn't reconise the name but seeing the pic brought it all back!
I love it when that happens