😂 I was I can't remember seeing a chopper bicycles in those movies

I still got 3 and trying to keep them as good as back in the days

... Kuwahara...

I thought they were some sting-rays in the movie also but I can't remember

MY friends older brother won one of those in some magazine comp. We were all very jealous. I still remember it well all these years later, the ET Kuwahara. @@conradmcmahon9323

Saved me the trouble 😂👍🏿

Yes you’re correct

Oh my. Congrats lol

I can remember so many times on my Chopper that it slipped out of 1st gear and caused my plumbs some serious pain 😭😭😱😱

​@@brownpartnership11Yep shaking just recollecting those painful memories.

Yep. A friend had a Chopper back in the day. I recall riding it standing on the pedals when the chain snapped. I landed on the gear stick with my gonads. Never rode it ever again.

You definitely don’t know what cool is .

@@W3TFART very true. Thanks for pointing that out for me!

@@MrAsthenia no problem

​@@W3TFARTIf you don't think a Raleigh Chopper looks cool, you must need spectacles lol.

@@stevezodiac491 nah you need them

My buddy saw that happen to a kid across the street on a full size bike and smashed his face. And that is why in America, the quick releases became more elaborate and doesn't quite quick release anymore.

My friend did exactly the same thing back in the early 1980's! Green coloured, very cool looking Chopper! As teenage school boys, we did not stop laughing or teasing him for ages.

Steel frame

The bike or the rider?

Me too. Great bike but I wouldn’t fancy lugging one up this hill. The geometry is probably slightly better but they weigh a ton.

I haven't spotted you in Aberdeen, so I'm guessing this is the river Dee in Wales?

the American Scwhinn version used a mid sized cruiser style frame, but towards the end, they also attached a" looks like a car shifter" , clamped to the frame in the right place for pain. . Schwinns were flawlessly finished, but the hidden attraction was double walled steel rims, so dad never had to bother with truing the rims. Buy one and you are done, almost kid proof.

I remember that & that's why Raleigh made the sissy bar smaller on the new chopper because they knew that full grown men would be riding about on bikes that we're designed for boys so Raleigh didn't go into the safety thing to much because the new chopper was aimed at the nostalgic market.

I was too, a lot of those bikes used a one piece crank with a different thread series for the pedals. Maybe this had an old two piece cotter crank, or the swapped the whole thing out.

​@@emmett1ishI think you're right. Looking closer, that's not a one piece crank arm. Either way, pretty funny. Kind of reminds me of my first bike, which was a Mongomery Wards knock-off of a Schwinn Stingray. I loved that thing!

@@emmett1ish Raleigh never ever made bikes with one piece cranks. Nether did anyone else in the UK or europe.

EPIC!

I had one as a 14 year old, it was a nightmare!, horrible bike!.

I would have killed for a mk 1 chopper in 1969 when i was ten. The hurt stuck with me all my life, even though now i have a cannondale system six, a cannondale super six evo, a Trek Speed Concept and a Dunlop Hotta TT bike amongst many others but i didn't have a Raleigh Chopper. The hurt stopped when i bought my Mk 4 Chopper during this summer as a 64 year old. Sad but true Ultra Violet with 70's length sissy bar as an accessory. You should see the curtains twitch when i ride it but who cares, I am living the dream lol.

He should have been wearing massive flares and a tank-top 😅

No, a aero helmet would not have been faster. He was stood up and so the helmet was not in an aerodynamic position, also the air speed climbing a hill is very low. Would have looked cool though lol.

I have the scars to prove it!, dreadful bike.

I still have the scars to prove it.

Had one of them, they were very cool.

I was too short for a Grifter in the 70's had to have the smaller Striker!

@@andreww2098 Striker? I never heard of that one (though an apt name for a bike from the 70's 🙂). My little brother had the Raleigh Boxer?

@@anticat900 misremembered the spelling it was the Raleigh Strika, not striker, similar to the boxer but had off road tyres and fake front shocks the advertising logo was a footballer kicking a ball with "Raleigh Strika it's a winner!"

@@andreww2098 That does sound cooler than my original thought 🙂. Just had a look, yep a cool bike for the time, huge saddles though. They went to alot effort to create pretend front shocks, are they really completely false, no springs i them at all?

Strava shows 1:20 as the record 30.7 kph over 0.68km.

Luxury! You were lucky! Our family of six had to use one pogo stick, to hop 60miles t' pit, work 36 hours, and then share a single Rice Crispy for supper....

I also have found memories of my stingray days. Those bike were super durable, built to be ready for childhood abuse. The one that didn't;t get stolen, my last one had a " drag slick " tire on the back that attracted punctures like crazy, and was dangerous in the rain, but I didn't care, it looked cool to a kid. I learned a lot about primitive liquid sealant back then. I was aware of wrenches, but applied them to bicycles only if the tube really had to be changed. .

@@richardelliott8352 Thanks for sharing that story and yes, the Sting-Ray was not the greatest bike of all time, but it was the greatest bike of its time, that decade or so before the BMX bikes it inspired and the explosion of that scene. And as my thumbnail indicates, i was still riding mine at the age of 15, it was my final year, and it prepared me well for BMX bikes and motorcycles as a year later, '76 as an American teen military dependent high schooler in Frankfurt, West Germany, I imported a CYC Stormer BMX bike and purchased locally, for $200 dollars from a friend, a ''73 250 Maico with a coffin tank, plus a an Italian-made 175 street-legal Harley for on-and-off-road use. But it was the Sting-Ray that I rode like crazy over an eight-year period, beginning in '67 in San Francisco and flying down those steep streets as an eight-year-old and happily zig-zagging back up to do it again and again. And I saw Evel Knievel perform in Southern California in '71 and, well, we all know his influence over every kid with a Sting-Ray. 😀

The Mk I Chopper would wheely or tip backwards constantly. Later ones, like the one in the video, had a dog leg seat stay to help prevent this.

I know the grifter was 35kg a real boys bike 💪

How could you do 50 on a Chopper without the speed-wobble catapulting you to oblivion? I'm calling BS!

@@FFM0594 I don't live near enough to oblivion to be catapulted there.

wasn't allowed a bike as a lad, so yeah, Christmas 1970 was the year when some lads got either a Chopper MK1 Tomahawk or Tracker other lads put Cow Horn handle-bars on "anything" with 2 wheels in those days it was all about who could make the longest back brake skids why am i here ? ,,, not because i was was a west end cycle courier in the late 80s oh because, i probably made the worlds 1st "fake" Rolls Royce Bike kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fb-WaKtms7eYfKc.htmlsi=kOOlyWb79i3iTl_l

@@bean9seventy I had a mate Mario who was a West End cycle courier in the mid to late 80s. Used to ride a white Muddy Fox...

@@davefave4351 cycle couriers made mountain bikes & cycling popular again ,, some were so far down the line they built their own bike taxis ? now an industry great times , sadly can no longer turn a crank, but still cycle, all passive ,, i started off with a barn freewheel racer from my dad ,,, muddy fox, rock hoppers, was a No1 bike any time we saw a "Hornet Courier" it was " Fish On" ,,, & race like lunatics, no limits, no rules, pavements, red lights one way streets, holding on to cars vans buses taxis HGVs anything & everything, i was a beast ,, never changed gears even uphill, for many years never even had brakes ,,, i still don't ,, but will never ride a fix wheel, They are dangerous ,, ; D

That's what I had even heavier when the gear knob was robed was lethal if you slipped forward