February 24, 2004
Get your chopper out!
Raleigh, that designer of such tasteful bikes as the Commando and the Grifter, are relaunching their best-known design -- the Chopper:
'Loz Cox, product manager for the Chopper at Raleigh, said: "The new Chopper has been restyled. The biggest changes are the lightweight alloy frame - the original was steel - and the position of the gear lever.'
I can't wait!
It slices! It dices! It makes mounds of julienne fries!
oops, wrong chopper...
It slices! It dices! It makes mounds of julienne fries!
oops, wrong chopper...
wow! raleighs were WAY too expensive for my family, so back in the 1960s my brother and i got schwinn stingrays. his was blue, mine was purple. groovy.
I thought the fad of goateed hipsters riding vintage coaster brake three speeds was passe? No?
I had a Stingray, too, complete with the impale-yourself five-speed shifter on the bar. Custom banana seat, colored spokes, a flapper noisemaker on the rear wheel... it was
groovy.
boss. (same word, one decade later)
Hmmm... might have been a Manta Ray.
hey goetter, did you look like this guy? circa 1972. far out. what'd we call that big bar behind the back -- the sissy bar?
Holy howler monkey, SideDish-- that's me! And, yeah, it had the sissy bar, too, with padding and wrapping up the back to make it like a chopper pillion seat. The bike was red, just as it appears in the photo. 1973 would have been the year.
oh here's a classic! a typical "on my stingray in my pajamas in front of the christmas tree" photo. hee.
Stingraaaaaay, Stingray!
Sorry, got the theme song stuck in my head.
Aaargh! The Grifter! My first bike!
Incredible name for a bicycle.
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