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| I had a Raleigh Commando similar to this one. Ace bike apart from, as already mentioned, sturmey-archer gears that never worked properly..
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Superb pics! Brought back some happy memories. I had a silver Grifter with the larger mudguard. I loved it. The blue, yellow and red gears, the comfy saddle. Miles better than a BMX. Had a Budgie before I was big enough for the Grifter.
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Great job that CC!
Doing them up like that you should start a little business knocking 'em out.There'll be plenty of old un's like us who would have one |
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Great job that CC!
Doing them up like that you should start a little business knocking 'em out.There'll be plenty of old un's like us who would have one | |
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I love the Grifter and what a great looking restoration job.
I had an old Chopper that a paper round customer gave me one Christmas. Somehow I managed to bend the frame, but undeterred I made what we used to call a scrambler. You took an old "racer", swapped the back wheel for one from a Chopper/Grifter/BMX (no back brake obviously) and turned the drop handlebars around to point upwards. It must have looked feckin stupid, but there were plenty of them around at the time.
Quote ="Derwent"I had been through the Chopper phase, though I'd changed the handlebars to cow horns (remember them ?), and had a Raleigh Commando when the Grifter came out. We'd never see nowt like it, twist grip gears ! Proper fancy ! Think every lad I knew got a Grifter for Christmas that ">year.'"
I remember seeing a few Choppers with cowhorns, they looked so wrong!
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I love the Grifter and what a great looking restoration job.
I had an old Chopper that a paper round customer gave me one Christmas. Somehow I managed to bend the frame, but undeterred I made what we used to call a scrambler. You took an old "racer", swapped the back wheel for one from a Chopper/Grifter/BMX (no back brake obviously) and turned the drop handlebars around to point upwards. It must have looked feckin stupid, but there were plenty of them around at the time.
Quote ="Derwent"I had been through the Chopper phase, though I'd changed the handlebars to cow horns (remember them ?), and had a Raleigh Commando when the Grifter came out. We'd never see nowt like it, twist grip gears ! Proper fancy ! Think every lad I knew got a Grifter for Christmas that ">year.'"
I remember seeing a few Choppers with cowhorns, they looked so wrong!
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i remember putting the forks and front wheel from my first mountain onto the frame of an old Ultra Burner with CW bars, it was mental to ride, i named it The Phantom Bellringer, those was thhe days
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