Raleigh Choppers

[hookooekoo]

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[hookooekoo]

Hammer Prices:

£260

£300

£1250

£1400

 

[M_Chavez]

Another good candidate to bring to an expensive sportive

 

[KermitGKona88]

And there are people on this site that think a Jack Taylor is expensive at 1400 quid, I know whic I would rather have Raleigh Choppers are bloody awful...

 

[Gtpulse]

You couldn’t give me a Chopper karma! Proper Marmite they are. Horrible to look at and worse to ride.

 

[sjcprojects]

Of course they are horrible to ride, but how else are men of a certain vintage with some nice disposable income meant to relive their youth if not by sitting looking at one longingly in their man-cave whilst sipping on an artisan IPA, I ask you?

 

[Mark Manley]

Of course they are horrible to ride, but how else are men of a certain vintage with some nice disposable income meant to relive their youth if not by sitting looking at one longingly in their man-cave whilst sipping on an artisan IPA, I ask you?

You forgot parked next to a restored £5,000 Yamaha FS1E.

 

[vcballbat]

Not for the purist...MK2 Choppers never came with alloy rims and hubs, and for that money I'd want R's on my nuts..

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Never liked them, never got them as a kid either. I you like them fair enough, me no thanks.

 

[sjcprojects]

To be fair to Raleigh, they achieved exactly what they wanted with the Chopper – to rip off the Schwinn Sting-Ray and in doing so appeal to the same kids who wanted a bike that didn't really look like a bike (something the Americans have always had a fondness for, resulting in all sorts of hideousness). It's not like it was meant to be a good bike, just good at appealing to that market - which it did.

I am surprised even the MK3/4 models get good money – I wouldn't have thought those are old enough to have the nostalgia factor, but I guess just being a Chopper is enough these days.