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Old Jan 29th 2010 | 8:08 am
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Originally Posted by Oink
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
 
Old Jan 29th 2010 | 8:29 am
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Originally Posted by Alan2005
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.
 
Old Jan 29th 2010 | 9:36 am
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Originally Posted by Oink
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
 
Old Jan 29th 2010 | 9:38 am
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Originally Posted by Oink
Actually it was a Raleigh Grifter, don't think she ever saw my chopper.
She saw mine though.

Ah, memory lane.
 
Old Jan 29th 2010 | 9:48 am
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She saw mine though.

Ah, memory lane.
You showed 12 year old Sarah Bradley your chopper? You dirty ol' man.
 
Old Jan 29th 2010 | 9:51 am
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Originally Posted by Flogger
It was the gear's that set the grifter apart. When you pulled back to change gear you were just like Poncherello
More like Barry Sheene and Kenny Roberts around our estate.
 
Old Jan 29th 2010 | 9:54 am
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More like Barry Sheene and Kenny Roberts around our estate.
Eddie Kidd...
 
Old Jan 29th 2010 | 9:55 am
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Originally Posted by Oink
More like Barry Sheene and Kenny Roberts around our estate.
Yes, it was Barry Sheene or Eddie Kidd for us.

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Old Jan 29th 2010 | 9:58 am
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Originally Posted by Oink
You showed 12 year old Sarah Bradley your chopper? You dirty ol' man.
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Old Jan 29th 2010 | 10:21 am
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Who's that then? Because she's not the one I was with at the back of the village hall with.
 
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They were quite heavy bikes and their brief tenure as cool was between choppers and BMX's if I recall.
...poof.
 
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Originally Posted by Alan2005
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!
 
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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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