# Attention UK dopers! The chopper is back!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-uk-dopers-the-chopper-is-back/224731
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 16, 2004, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-uk-dopers-the-chopper-is-back/224731 "2004-01-16T07:29:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2004, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-uk-dopers-the-chopper-is-back/224731/1 "2004-01-16T07:29:39Z")
Do you remember the 70’s? It wasn’t just bad haircuts and flares. It was the time of the most iconic bicycle ever to be built in Nottingham.
Now, [it’s back](http://www.raleigh.co.uk/new/index.html?sub=1)🆒
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> As important to cycling as George Best to football, no other bike has ever provoked so many memories, or had such a great influence over one generation as the Chopper, so if you didn’t get to experience it the first time round, now’s your chance.
So, who’s going to buy one? Or is your old one still rusting in the shed? Tell us about what you did with your Chopper when you were a kid. We (alright, I) need to know.
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### Author:  [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-uk-dopers-the-chopper-is-back/224731/2 "2004-01-16T13:52:19Z")
On the NADS board [**yojimbo** tells us](http://pub75.ezboard.com/fnadsfrm2.showMessage?topicID=396.topic) that they’ve moved the gear stick off the frame, so at least there’ll be fewer genital injuries this time around. Still a crap bike though. I never had one and never wanted one.
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-uk-dopers-the-chopper-is-back/224731/3 "2004-01-16T14:00:50Z")
I want one.
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### Author:  [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-uk-dopers-the-chopper-is-back/224731/4 "2004-01-16T15:16:47Z")
I think I still got my original one. It may well be still hung up in his garage.
Sadly, it was superceded by the Raleigh SuperBurner I bought 3rd hand for £35. They were supposed to be gold, but mine was silver. It rocked.
More money from nostalgia. Maybe Choppers should come with a School Disco CD for added bollocks.