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barbie
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Journal of barbie (2653)

Thursday January 15, 2004
12:52 PM

Choppers Are Back

[ #16845 ]
Just noted that a "Design classic that entranced kids" is featured on the BBC site.

If you are British, and between the ages of 33 and 45, it is not unlikely that you had a childhood haunted by longing for a Chopper bike.

For me ... s/longing for/accidents on/ ... is more appropriate. I never had one, but several of my mates did. Due to the cow-horn style handlebars it was all too easy to come a cropper on a chopper. The extra drop to the crossbar could be quite painful too. Ouch.

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  • Raleigh (Score:3, Funny)

    by vek (2312) on 2004.01.15 13:21 (#27431) Journal
    I had both a Tomahawk and a Chopper when I was a kid. Excellent for doing wheelies as I recall :-)

    Oh yes, those were the days.
  • Chopper madness infected Australia in pretty much the same way as described in the link: but all the examples that I saw here during the early seventies were a more menacing **orange**, and not the wussy light blue as pictured. Aah, here we go...

    Choppertrader [choppertrader.com]

    (They were also remarkably skittish beasts; but, boy, that gearstick was something.)