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Alan2005 Jan 29th 2010 8:08 am
Re: The good old days......
 
Originally Posted by Oink (Post 8294204)
Actually it was a Raleigh Grifter, don't think she ever saw my chopper.
I had a grifter. I got it just as BMX's were all the rage so it wasn't as cool anymore :(

Oink Jan 29th 2010 8:29 am
Re: The good old days......
 
Originally Posted by Alan2005 (Post 8294328)
I had a grifter. I got it just as BMX's were all the rage so it wasn't as cool anymore :(
They were quite heavy bikes and their brief tenure as cool was between choppers and BMX's if I recall.

Flogger Jan 29th 2010 9:36 am
Re: The good old days......
 
Originally Posted by Oink (Post 8294390)
They were quite heavy bikes and their brief tenure as cool was between choppers and BMX's if I recall.
It was the gear's that set the grifter apart. When you pulled back to change gear you were just like Poncherello:thumbup:

Novocastrian Jan 29th 2010 9:38 am
Re: The good old days......
 
Originally Posted by Oink (Post 8294204)
Actually it was a Raleigh Grifter, don't think she ever saw my chopper.
She saw mine though.

Ah, memory lane.

Oink Jan 29th 2010 9:48 am
Re: The good old days......
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 8294510)
She saw mine though.

Ah, memory lane.
You showed 12 year old Sarah Bradley your chopper? You dirty ol' man. :rofl:

Oink Jan 29th 2010 9:51 am
Re: The good old days......
 
Originally Posted by Flogger (Post 8294506)
It was the gear's that set the grifter apart. When you pulled back to change gear you were just like Poncherello:thumbup:
More like Barry Sheene and Kenny Roberts around our estate. :)

lmartin999 Jan 29th 2010 9:54 am
Re: The good old days......
 
Originally Posted by Oink (Post 8294534)
More like Barry Sheene and Kenny Roberts around our estate. :)
Eddie Kidd...

Alan2005 Jan 29th 2010 9:55 am
Re: The good old days......
 
Originally Posted by Oink (Post 8294534)
More like Barry Sheene and Kenny Roberts around our estate. :)
Yes, it was Barry Sheene or Eddie Kidd for us.

Novocastrian Jan 29th 2010 9:58 am
Re: The good old days......
 
Originally Posted by Oink (Post 8294528)
You showed 12 year old Sarah Bradley your chopper? You dirty ol' man. :rofl:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/...fa8d30.jpg?v=0

Oink Jan 29th 2010 10:21 am
Re: The good old days......
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 8294545)
Who's that then? Because she's not the one I was with at the back of the village hall with.

bsmith Jan 29th 2010 11:01 am
Re: The good old days......
 
Originally Posted by Oink (Post 8294390)
They were quite heavy bikes and their brief tenure as cool was between choppers and BMX's if I recall.
...poof.

dboy Jan 29th 2010 11:56 am
Re: The good old days......
 
Originally Posted by Alan2005 (Post 8294328)
I had a grifter. I got it just as BMX's were all the rage so it wasn't as cool anymore :(
a posh kid on our estate had a mongoose - he was a right tosser!

sparkling_gal Jan 30th 2010 11:44 pm
Re: The good old days......
 
I'm jealous. My brother had one of those bikes with the big handle bars - was it a chopper or a grifter? I had one of those big heavy fold up Hercules bikes, so I could bike to my Grandma's and she would meet me halfway, fold it up and put it in the boot.


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