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Jan 29th 2010 | 8:08 am

#16

Alan2005

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Re: The good old days......

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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

Jan 29th 2010 | 8:29 am

#17

Oink

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Re: The good old days......

Quote:

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.

Jan 29th 2010 | 9:36 am

#18

Flogger

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Re: The good old days......

Quote:

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

Jan 29th 2010 | 9:38 am

#19

Novocastrian

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Re: The good old days......

Quote:

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.

Jan 29th 2010 | 9:48 am

#20

Oink

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Re: The good old days......

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian

She saw mine though.

Ah, memory lane.

You showed 12 year old Sarah Bradley your chopper? You dirty ol' man.

Jan 29th 2010 | 9:51 am

#21

Oink

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Re: The good old days......

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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.

Jan 29th 2010 | 9:54 am

#22

lmartin999

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Re: The good old days......

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Originally Posted by Oink

More like Barry Sheene and Kenny Roberts around our estate.

Eddie Kidd...

Jan 29th 2010 | 9:55 am

#23

Alan2005

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Re: The good old days......

Quote:

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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Jan 29th 2010 | 9:58 am

#24

Novocastrian

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Re: The good old days......

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Originally Posted by Oink

You showed 12 year old Sarah Bradley your chopper? You dirty ol' man.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/...fa8d30.jpg?v=0

Jan 29th 2010 | 10:21 am

#25

Oink

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Re: The good old days......

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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/...fa8d30.jpg?v=0

Who's that then? Because she's not the one I was with at the back of the village hall with.

Jan 29th 2010 | 11:01 am

#26

bsmith

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Re: The good old days......

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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.

...poof.

Jan 29th 2010 | 11:56 am

#27

dboy

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Re: The good old days......

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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!

Jan 30th 2010 | 11:44 pm

#28

sparkling_gal

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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.