Ah Grasshopper

[BoredBloke]

Didn't a Grifter weigh about the same as an Austin Princess?

My mate had a Grifter and they did weigh a ton. We lived on top of the pennines and his bike, even in its lowest of 3 gears was too hard to get up the hills. I had something called a gx2000 or something. That was the best (of an sh1t selection of bikes) that I ever had. It had a back peddle brake with a drum on the rear wheel which locked it, so you could leave huge skid marks on the road.

[Alf W]

I always aspired to a chopper but only ever got a Grifter..... Ah those were the days

Didn't a Grifter weigh about the same as an Austin Princess?

[BoredBloke]

My folks got me a Chopper but it was an adults one and I was only 7 - Ok I was tall but that really was taking the pi55. I couldn't touch the floor. To get on I used to stand on a wall and set off - if I was lucky! Getting off was harder as I'd have to jump off the bike back onto the wall. They got shut of it after 3 days due to the accidents I'd had. The last one was when I but a huge dent in the door of a mini with my head. I'd tried to get off onto the wall, lost my balance and fallen the other way and crashing into the car. I think they never wanted Grandkids either because that gear stick would get me pretty much every turn of the peddles.

[stingman123]

Tomahawk for me, my mates chopper was too large...............

[chef]

I always aspired to a chopper but only ever got a Grifter..... Ah those were the days

i had a raleigh budgie.. i loved it, purple

£225 now on ebay

it also was complete with Spokey Dokeys : Coloured plastic balls that you fitted to the spokes of your bike (got them from cornflakes and monster munch packets) so that when you rode around slowly they would clatter up and down noisily and when you rode fast the centrifugal force would push them all out to the wheel rim and they would just look like a coloured blur.

[badger7579]

I always aspired to a chopper but only ever got a Grifter..... Ah those were the days

[ratewhore]

I was never happier than when I was riding my friend's chopper.

[EternalOptimist]

* Terrorists on the rampage (Munich Olympics, Bader Meinhoff, Carlos the Jackal, airplane hijacks, IRA)
* Energy crisis
* Strikes
* Only 3 TV channels
* No Bombay Bad Boy

when you can take the stone from my hand, Grasshopper-Robert
Then you can leave this place

[Bob Dalek]

ah,halcyon days

* Terrorists on the rampage (Munich Olympics, Bader Meinhoff, Carlos the Jackal, airplane hijacks, IRA)
* Energy crisis
* Strikes
* Only 3 TV channels
* No Bombay Bad Boy

[Xenophon]

I was never happier than when I was riding my friend's chopper.

[EternalOptimist]

when I was a youngster, I sed to while away my days watching Kung Fu, Columbo and stuff like Alias Smith and Jones.

We wern't worried about credit crunches, bank bail outs or any of that rubbish

ah,halcyon days