Best bike ever!

[PhillB]

All the promo shots showed Paddy with an original 70s MKll Chopper in Fizzy Lemon
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In reality he rode a modified MKIV Chopper (launched last year) which is a very different machine.
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Pudsey should be careful on a bike - depth perception will be poor with only one eye.

 

[Totoro]

All the promo shots showed Paddy with an original 70s MKll Chopper in Fizzy Lemon


In reality he rode a modified MKIV Chopper (launched last year) which is a very different machine.

At least he wasn't on his E-bike that day with his mates, riding along the footpaths that he shouldn't.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Pudsey should be careful on a bike - depth perception will be poor with only one eye.

Ask @Scott-S sorry mate but I figured you'd know

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

I think this site comes with a rose tint applied to everything!!!



WE NEED to keep this thread clean, despite the word Chopper being used repeatedly over the past few pages!

Yes!^

 

[Totoro]

Yes!^

You bloomin hear that @Scott-S

 

[Scott-S]

Ask @Scott-S sorry mate but I figured you'd know

No drama I was going to reply earlier but thought I might look like I was taking the piss

Pudsey should be careful on a bike - depth perception will be poor with only one eye.

It's not as bad as you might think, over time you can train your brain to guesstimate (I passed my car driving test after I lost my left eye) although I do struggle with judging distances on close items and sometimes drop a glass or a mug etc.
With all that being said I still won't take my bike near a road, cos I know I'll end up as a statistic

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

You bloomin hear that @Scott-S

Ahem people in glass houses

 

[Scott-S]

You bloomin hear that @Scott-S

Jeez you make one innocent little 2G1C reference and all of a sudden you're Josef Mengele
(Am I even allowed to say his name? )

Lesson learned M'lord

 

[dirttorpedo]

What a fantastic thread. Raleigh was so big in North America that they made bikes here in Canada for a couple of decades. The factory was just down the highway from me.

"The market was so strong that in 1973, Raleigh Canada stopped importing the bikes from Britain and opened a manufacturing plant in Canada, in Waterloo, Que.
But by the mid-’80s, intense competition from Japanese and European brands had all but squeezed Raleigh out of the higher end of the market."

https://www.thestar.com/business/th...cle_bb433cd4-e6a9-5f56-8072-e1793b3bdca5.html

I know this is a road bike thread, but shortly before the factory closed, they snuck out a really good mtb that I want to find. There was a version of the Serengetti that was made in Canada using Tange Infinity tubes.
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https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/my-early-1990s-raleigh-serengeti.384034/

I thought that Raleigh made bikes in Canada because we had import tarrifs on bikes to protect the domestic market (read CCM). That's why Sekine started making bikes in Canada. I think Peugeot made bikes here as well in the 80's. Raleighs were such good value back then I recommended one to a former boss for his daughter.

What size Serengetti do you want? I've seen that model for sale here in Vancouver in the past.

 

[Totoro]

Ahem people in glass houses

Which is exactly why I posted it

Lesson learned M'lord

Good, do not force me to report you again