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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

What bicycle from your childhood brings back fond memories for you,mine was a Raliegh Chipper

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Grifter - loved that bike ! I used to always be out racing the lads

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By *a-ra-ra-boom-de-ayCouple  over a year ago

Wish it was the Algarve! Aberdeenshire

A Chopper! In red & black, good thought I was cool.

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By *himanMan  over a year ago

chichester

Grifter it was soooo cool

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By *a-ra-ra-boom-de-ayCouple  over a year ago

Wish it was the Algarve! Aberdeenshire


"A Chopper! In red & black, good thought I was cool. "

*God

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Red n black chopper too woohoo!

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Id like a chopper now

I had a girly bike that was made to look like denim and it had a basket on the front

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman  over a year ago

little house on the praire

My first brand new bike (we all had secondhand) was a bronze Moulton mini I thought I was so grown up

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

Mark here, mine was a raliegh burner,it was red with yellow mag wheels,wish I still had it worth a bloody fortune

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By *horltzMan  over a year ago

heysham

Tommahawk ( mini chopper ) best bikes for wheelies ever

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"Id like a chopper now

I had a girly bike that was made to look like denim and it had a basket on the front "

We bought our Daughter a bratz one a few years back, looked really cool but my god! How fookin hard to steer! I didn't remember this from being a child!

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

I had a little tiny red tricycle,then a second hand god knows what and then a yellow Chopper

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

A 5 speed racer class bike that

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"A 5 speed racer class bike that "

Saddle like a razor blade?

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

That's the one, would cut the kitty of you, so I was told once

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By *abioMan  over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

i had a Grifter XL.... i wanted a burner so i could do skids but my sister had a raleigh budgie... so borrowed that for daredevil stunts.....

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By *oxy_minxWoman  over a year ago

Scotland - Aberdeen

I had a black and yellow BMX, yes I was a tom boy back in the day

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

I had some super cool chrome one with black & white checkered sponge padding bits and black mag wheels for my first bike and then I had a Grifter and then a Skyway.

The rest were too modern to be worth a mention.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Had a silver shadow bmx with black mag wheels...Stunning

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"i had a Grifter XL.... i wanted a burner so i could do skids but my sister had a raleigh budgie... so borrowed that for daredevil stunts..... "

Hilarious mental image of _abio doing daredevil stunts on a raleigh budgie

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

a raleigh chopper but sadly never had one back then but i brought one a few yrs ago in pristine fizzy lemon

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By *xpresMan  over a year ago

Elland

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By *xpresMan  over a year ago

Elland

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By *xpresMan  over a year ago

Elland

BSA drop handle 12 speed

Mongoes BMX

Raleigh Grifter

Raleigh budgie

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By *ust RachelTV/TS  over a year ago

Horsham

Mine was my peugeot racer, it was to me my first real bike. I went everywhere on that thing. Aged 8 I went from Prescot to Queensferry via frodsham, back the same day as well.

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By *uby0000Woman  over a year ago

hertfordshire

used to borrow my brothers BMX

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By *inaTitzTV/TS  over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Raleigh Burner - GS, no less

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Viking warlord 5 speed racer I found one on a skip a few months back so brought it home and fixed it up,,, ouch that seat is like a razor blade , no wonder I could sing high notes as a lad

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

I had a Boxer then when I was bigger I bought a second hand grifter with my savings from my Saturday jobs , thought I was the damage ... lol

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Raleigh sprint racer with razor tyres.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

A bright orange Raleigh chopper which I had to share with my brother and sister.

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By *umpkinMan  over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

Only had old crap that my Dad could afford to scrounge,bless him! Did have one with a THREE speed Durailier gears and a Reynold aluminium frame ononce. Must be worth a bit for it`s curiosity value these days had it survived!

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By *aceytopWoman  over a year ago

from a town near you

I had to share my brothers till I begged my Dad to buy me a motorbike,he came home with a beat up old Norton,we used to trial bike it round an old reservoir near where we lived I was about 12 I think

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Any that wernt chained up

Gimp

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By *igeiaWoman  over a year ago

Bristol

Raleigh Sapphire. White wall tires, which I thought was cool and powder blue frame.

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By *cenario-xxxMan  over a year ago

Salford

Red tomcat! With what im sure were concrete tyres! Haha

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Dawes Demon - wish I could find one now, for memory's sake.... anybody got one?

I now have 6 bikes, including a Dawes Lady Galaxy Mixte hanging in the lounge.....

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By *icked weaselCouple  over a year ago

Near Edinburgh..

I can remember using my mums bike that used to fold up.. 80`s !! with a pedal back brake ..

It was like fast as fook against all the cool bikes - Raleigh burners and mongoose haro skyway etc at the BMX tracks.. (mr)

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Budgie, chopper and grifter

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Dennis the mennis bike, what a beast

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By *horltzMan  over a year ago

heysham


"Budgie, chopper and grifter"

Show off

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

My Raleigh Commando - remember coming off it and the brake lever puncturing the top of my thigh.

I look back now and think 'that was close'.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

I just used to nick my brothers, grifter and chopper, I wasn't a fitly girl

Her

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

At about 6 or 7 i had a yellow chipper,and at about 11 a purple chopper. Mr g.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"I just used to nick my brothers, grifter and chopper, I wasn't a fitly girl

Her"

Girly

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Bmx thing as far as I remember Striker I think it was called but it was always muddy

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By *LCoupleCouple  over a year ago

Norfolk

I had a raleigh striker.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

My first bike was Chopperesque, my next bike was a BMX.

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By *riskygazMan  over a year ago

birmingham

it was a grafter for me great bike like a little scrambler go anywhere bike.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

I had a raliegh strika with a pedal bake brake.....i loved it, then I had a raleigh milk race . I loved it, went everywhere on it

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By *ire_bladeMan  over a year ago

Manchester

FS1E fuck peddling

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

I get my new bike tomorrow, I've decided to do some extra exercise. I'm getting a Raleigh Caprice which is very retro looking and has a lovely basket on the front.

My childhood bike was a Raleigh Fourteen

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

I learned to drive a car aged 12, had my first motorbike aged 14 and learned to ride a bicycle aged 32.

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