Grifters and Choppers
me being a young lad in the eighties, you Either owned a Raleigh Chopper or a Raleigh Grifter, and you could only ride with lads on the same type of bike.
Now as everyone in the UK rembers, the Chopper was a light bike with a small front wheel, whilst the Grifter weighed a ton, and looked like an industrial russian version of a bmx bike with a padded handlebar.
Now the Chopper lads were taking the piss and showing off that they could pully wheelies very easily on their choppers, whilst of course us grifter lads need the strength of hercules just to get the thing going.
So me being the ever optimist decided that i could pull a wheelie and go up the kerb infront of my friends house which for some reason was ridiculously high (about 1 foot)
Hence me failing spectacularly and heading chin first over the handlebars.
Unfortunately after the curb there was a narrow path and after the path there was a small 2 foot wall.....topped with decorative railings. You know the ones, sprayed with hammerite and nice arrowhead spikes on top.
Which promptly decided to pierce through the base of my chin and appear between my teeth and my lip.
Moral: Never pull wheelies on a Grifter, always pull your chopper instead...wait...erm
(THJahar smell my fingers, Mon 24 Dec 2007, 13:05, 1 reply)

I had a grifter.
It had those clinky things on the spokes.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 24 Dec 2007, 18:12, closed)