Same here:

Went from a purple Budgie to a silver grifter.

If you folder back the mud flaps on the grifter, it would kind of sound like a motorbike (until friction burned them away), aswell as add to the effort required to pedal the thing.

I swear that anyone who owned a Grifter when they were a kid will live to very old age, due to the inordinate levels of fitness built up during those important early years.

Chopper all the way man

I managed to have a smaller version of the chopper called a Chipper, long seat but no gears - light as a feather and easy to wheelie.

Before that I had the worlds first bike (not really) fold in half bike, easy to put into car etc, however the folding hinge made the frame weak in the middle so being a mental 8 year old I used to belt down the hill where I lived at full tilt, needless to say one day the frame split in half whilst going down hill.

I ended up wrapped round a lamp post and the bike into a fence....my father was no impressed but welded it together - that weld last 3 days....a further 3 welding attempts saw me try and decapitate myself on all occassion - hence the replacement Chipper!