Anyone with a raleigh chopper or healing dragster?

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klrider, Mar 11, 5:45am
Oh wow, I had a purple chopper three speed on the floor, banna seat and flag, coolist thang.
goose13, Mar 11, 5:47am
Remember NICE ONE STU, he use to ride one on telly,we still ride them and it is amazing the amount of comments we get,they are still fun,,
klrider, Mar 11, 5:49am
Like it was yesterday, man I feel old all of a sudden.
trogedon, Mar 11, 7:15am
Cool!
morrisjvan, Mar 11, 9:00am
I've got a 1973 mkII Chopper in ''fizzy lemon'' needs the wheels rebuilt and cables then good to go. down to the dairy for a TT2
goose13, Mar 11, 9:16am
would you be keen to bring down to Oamaru sometime for ride around and get together with other owners!
elvis58, Mar 11, 11:17am
Remember these bikes well, does anyone remember the Raleigh number one! My brother had one in 1973/4 which would have placed it about the same time as the chopper, it was very similar to the chopper but had chrome mudguards, gold paint and banana seat and no gears. The bike looked outstanding at the time, so much so that he was stopped by the local paper and had his picture taken. Would love to know if any others exisited.
goose13, Mar 11, 11:34am
Never seen one of them,Do you still have paper cutting! or any pics of it.
i-n-horz, Mar 11, 12:12pm
I had the Dragster when me was a squirt.first night some buggar stole it off our deck while we were having grub,the ol'man caught them hoonin around the carpark.
Later on I also had the Chopper a green one which took out me front teeth going flat out down a hill and the little front wheel through her into a wobbly over the bars face plant in to the tarmac.not to worry,I did it agian on a skateboard,twice!.it was all in fun ;)
goose13, Mar 11, 12:26pm
Yea,when we where kids we sure knew how to have fun,and all the crashes and scraps we had where all part of crowing up,now all the kids are wrapped in cotton wool,they missing out on so much cool stuff like we had back then.
elvis58, Mar 11, 1:42pm
And all those bloody head injuries that lead to us having to have helmets now. LOL.
morrisjvan, Mar 11, 1:57pm
Oamaru's a bithilly for choppers isn't it!
goose13, Mar 11, 2:02pm
Lots of pubs on the flat parts. More than enough to keep fuel tank full.
alimac1, Mar 11, 2:08pm
x1
I had a Dragster back in the day. From memory my dragster had 3 speed derailleur gears. My mate had a Chopper and another mate had a Number One
goose13, Mar 11, 2:27pm
would be so cool to see pics of a "number one" as i don,t think i have ever seen them.
mk3zephyr, Mar 11, 2:37pm
How bout the Choppers little brother the "Tomahawk" or the precursor to the BMX the "Grifter"
goose13, Mar 11, 4:10pm
great little bike however bit harder to ride as wee not as small as we where in the 70s,to much related products passed lips since then.
bluekiwi16, Mar 11, 4:23pm
My husband had one when he was a kid.He went to Pedalpushers a couple of years ago. to pick up a puncture for me. he came home with the newversion of chopper. for our son, of course. The only thing different is the positioning of the gear lever (they were worried about the groin injuries that could effect manhood later on) "How many owners had trouble fathering kids I want to know" the same with all the head injuries we got. Elvis.
goose13, Mar 11, 4:55pm
shit better proff read, Fell off and 3 Kids,,,,opps,,
74nova, Mar 11, 5:56pm
I got a second hand Chopper for my 13th birthday and my eldest brother had a dragster at the time. Don't know what happened to them. I remember about that time I also had a MK 1 zephyr pedal car which I was too big for and I used to sit in it with my legs out over the top resting on the bonnet and would race down our drive way and crash into things. Don't know what happened to that either.
bluekiwi16, Mar 11, 7:51pm
Hence the helmet. roflmao.

Scott rides thebike, Dad has tried but just a little too small now,. lol
mantagsi, Mar 11, 7:59pm
First bike I ever learnt to ride on! Wow, brings back memories! Wish I still had it :(
xacoon, Mar 11, 8:17pm
were you at the gardens/station a couple of sundays ago with cannon and the boys bruce!
phlippy, Mar 11, 8:44pm
My first bike was a Chopper an orange one with a single tube that the the stick shift sat on. got all the xtras you could get including the Reving handgrip. you'd always break the dam gear cable at the point where it went into the axle though when you fell off. the old man used to get sick of buying new ones lol. best bit was the day you got new break pads and hooning up to a set of lights and locking the big fat tyre on the paint arrows on the road. and in the wet when you had no breaks lots of fun.
elvis58, Mar 11, 8:58pm
Great, so there was another, was it gold too!