Crash?

[shoggoth1]

On the Chopper I had, the gear change was a lever mounted on the cross bar. Was it not Grifters that had the twist kind on the handle bar?

[raceboy]

Yes, twist grip on a Grifter, blue, yellow and red gears
Chopper had a gear 'stick' on the top tube

[plotloss]

Sturmey Archer - now theres a name from the past.

How many others disregarded the 'This bicycle seat is not suitable to carry passengers' band on their Choppers?

Yep, as I thought, all of you!



Matt.

[shoggoth1]

Ahhh, the cause of many an inadvertant 'wheelie'.

[SBD]

Choppers were thoroughly evil creations and in my opinion are the sole reason for declining birthrates.......!!

Does anyone remeber the "Chipper" I think it was a junior version of the Chopper except no gears? May be complete bollocks though.

[loudpedal]

all the kids in my street on their grifters and choppers were blown out of the water when I rocked up on my black and gold super burner. I WAS king for the day.

[plotloss]

Yep the Chipper has some vague memory in my head as well!

Burners, now you're talking!

Matt.

[shoggoth1]

The Raleigh 'Vector'(sp?) anyone? Kind of like a Grifter/BMX thing that had a 'computer' on the cross bar. Did sound effects and other nonsense.

[plotloss]

Every tube on the thing covered in 'futuristic' nasty plastic the same colour as PC cases.

That the one?

Matt.

[shoggoth1]

Could be. It was certainly covered in plastic, but white I seem to remember - as opposed to PC beige. Never struck me as a good idea on a bike that was supposed to be some rugged futuristic cross country beast.

[yertis]

I'd forgotten I knew this:

Mark 1 Chopper has a gear "knob" , and a round top to the "roll-bar" at the back.

Mark 2 Chopper has a gear shift with a "T" shaped lever (like on automatic Stags of that era). The roll-bar is squared-off...

[bertie]

quote:
The Raleigh 'Vector'(sp?) anyone? Kind of like a Grifter/BMX thing that had a 'computer' on the cross bar. Did sound effects and other nonsense.

How much other nonsense?
We used to make the sounders for Raleigh on, amongst other the Street Wolf, Night Hawk and a beige girly one as well.

On second thoughts, maybe I shouldn't have admitted that!


>> Edited by bertie on Thursday 28th March 17:56

[sipow]

Oh and adding cigerette cards into the spokes,held to the forks with a clothes peg to make that luverly Vee8 sound or was it like a long raspberry

Simon

[sipow]

Back to the point of side impact bars.
Well my feeling is yes prehaps they should of been put in Griffiths/Chimeares but most people do know this when buying and should Know there is some risk,basically the same as a Motorcyclist does or some one buying a Smart Car,yeah it might have them(the smart not a Bike) but come on that aint relly gonna save you in side on is it.
My deepest sympathy for the families of the two people in Yellow Griff and to the victims families of todays horrific crashes.

Simon

[trefor]

quote:
Back to the point of side impact bars.
Well my feeling is yes prehaps they should of been put in Griffiths/Chimeares but most people do know this when buying and should Know there is some risk,basically the same as a Motorcyclist does or some one buying a Smart Car,yeah it might have them(the smart not a Bike) but come on that aint relly gonna save you in side on is it.
My deepest sympathy for the families of the two people in Yellow Griff and to the victims families of todays horrific crashes.

Simon

Hactually, Smarts are really really strong little things. (Before all the Smart owners start telling you this).

My worry is that a 5 star rated town car (or Smart) in a head on with say an Audi A6 (I drive one) ... which would you rather be in?

[sipow]

Yeah they probably are,but in a high speed crash(i mean 60-70ish)surely these arent gonna save you.
I,ve got nothing against smarts(think everyone in the centr of london should have one) and was just using it as an example of the choices people take in the car they have and must Know its weaknesses otherwise we would all be driving volvos(nothing against them except when im on me cbr600).

Simon

[cho]

Friend showed me a short mpeg of when he went skiing and managed to get a shot of a Smart (accidentally)dropped off a platform while being craned. Fell about 50-60 feet and only the wheels and a few panels fell off!

[hoganscrogan]

Smart crash at around.....

http://homepage.mac.com/croggymassive/PhotoAlbum.html

[raceboy]

Sorry, but back to Grifters, someone in the local paper is trying to shift one for £100 Are worth good money now or is he a dreamer?
If so I'm off to get mine back off the kids next door!

[chris mallett]

On the Grifter subject I LOVED that bike!!!!!! i used to be able to wheelie that for ever!!!! but yes it was a very heavy bike!!!
Then i moved on to the B.M.X phase!!! Burner's Super tuff's ultra burners anyone remember these i ended up with a mongoose with z rims it was the dogs!!!!!!!!