Vintage Raleigh Chopper Bike | Fetches AMAZING Price At Auction!
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- Vintage Raleigh Chopper bike fetches an amazing price at auction! Watch live to find out what this 1970s Raleigh Chopper bike achieves at auction! Do you own a Raleigh Chopper, let me know all about it in the comments below.
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Mark. 
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I've been waiting ages for a Raleigh Chopper to come up for auction and here it is! Check out the video and watch the live auction to see the amazing price it achieves! To watch other auction videos, check out the playlists and the Kew Gardens fifty pence in particular!
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Crapiest bike I ever owned, I loved it ❤
It was even worse than the 15 ton Grifter.
I remember falling off mine more than I stayed on it! Still have the scars to show for it 🤣👍
Grifter was a tank...think about 9 i had one😂
Lol Raleigh Striker! Back pedal braking and tormenting skateboarders!
The Raleigh Bommer was way ahead of its time, such a comfortable ride.
Will have to check out the Raleigh Bommer? 👍
Such great times, we had sawdust on butchers floors, coal lorries, smoking 🚬 carriages and pride. Thanks to lack of technology and Google we had all the time in the world 🌎, plenty of time to ride our bikes 🚲
That sums it up very nicely! 😁👍
Yes, plus a lack of Big Brother, great music and freedoms the current generation and future generations cannot even dream about.
And we had Gordon Honeycomb presenting the 5.50 ITN news in his straight forward, non emotional manner just before a possible power strike😅
@@anthonycrumb5753 Agreed, different world back then!
@@QuoPaperPlane I remember those times well! 🤣😁👍
I worked at Raleigh in the 70s my job was fitting the front forks on all bikes and the Chopper was the òne that we did more of every day all colours.Great memories of those days.
I suspect you are the envy of quite a few people 😁👍
They altered the rear stays on the Mk2 because they used to break on Mk1, with kids riding 2 up 😊
I dread to think! 🤣👍
I have a beautiful, restored, fizzy lemon Raleigh chopper Mk2 from 76/3 with high-rise cissy bar ,rear mud flap, period correct new old stock ever ready lights and a mileometer on the front forks it lives in my spare bedroom under a bike cover.
Fantastic Peter. I wish I'd kept my red MK2 from 1973! 😁👍
56 yrs old, I wish i still had mine, it was second hand,red, not sure what mark it was,and before that i had a purple Tomahawk, the small version. I remember the grifter i didn't have one of those,i remember they were heavy, and then the film ET started BMX craze. I've still got an 80s BMX in the attic. Oh to be young again 😊
Can't argue with any of that. If only we had a time machine! Well done for hanging on to your 80s BMX!
@mycolliesandme268 tomahawk light as a feather cracking wheelies u could do choppa straight over handle bars
@@mikehunt-qr9so Yes mate I remember that,I probably did my first wheely on the Tomahawk, the big seat meant you would not slip off the back. Bringing it all back now 😊
Don’t forget the Chipper in between the two.
@steveblack610 weren't 1 called a Budgie aswell
Mark 1 Pumpkin Orange for me. What a machine, it was a glorious time!
Do you think they were the most iconic bicycle ever made? 😁👍
@@antiquescentral Without a doubt!
Ive just bought an unrestored fizzy lemon for £750! Good to know the price was right on!
Bang on the right price, nice job 😁👍
I had a bright red one, loved it,
Even after I caught my thumb in the cog, while trying to wheel the bike along, sitting on it, & trying to reach down & guide the chain back onto the cog,
My dad had to turn the cog one full rotation, to get my squashed thumb out, & off to hospital we went,
I was back on the bike with a bandaged thumb the next day😁
Great story, albeit with a squashed thumb! 😁👍
@@antiquescentral I’m 55yrs now, my thumb nail is still damaged from it,
Those were the days though👍😁
Me and my brother wanted one, I got a rsw14, my brother got a tomahawk, but a lot of kids said they where uncomfortable to ride, I think this is where the trend started where you got to have what everyone had, but as kids if parents couldn't afford it you got on with it, now kids want the latest phones trainers, clothes and us stupid parents go into debt for them
You might well have a good point there, I hadn't thought about it that way? 😁👍
the lad i grew up with mother won 11-000 pounds on the pools coupon football scores? She bought him a brand new chopper bike in purple ? i was soooooo jealous !!!!
What a great memory in every respect. Hope you eventually got your Chopper?
My big bro had a yellow mark 1. A thing of beauty. I’d a tomahawk 😂😂😂
Did you ever get the Chopper when he outgrew it?
I had some of my best times on this bike in the 1970 in blue with three gears
I haven't received a negative comment about the Chopper yet, incredibly popular 😁👍.
Saw a beautiful mark 1 in Scarborough last summer in red..Was talking to the guy who said he would never sell it no matter what the price..A beautiful bike that takes me back to my youth.Everyone who could afford it had a Chopper or a Grifter..I unfortunately never owned either but love them both..❤
I wonder if there was a price that would have tempted him? 😁👍
@@antiquescentral I suppose there is always a price but he had already been offered silly money he was adamant he wouldn’t sell, but I suppose you can never say never..It was all original and the first thing I noticed was the longer seat without the passenger band on..Thanks for the video 🫶🏽
I had one loved this bike got it in 1970 chopper mk1 grate memories
Couldn't agree more Rebekah. They say that possessions aren't important in life but sometimes I think they can be the foundation of treasured memories 😁👍
Used to get a backie off me mate from school in 81, 82 was great.
Best ever bike for backies? 👍
I had a O'brien (BSA) Panther. Very similar to the chopper. This was around 1974.
I'll look that make and model up. Sounds excellent! 😁👍
Paddy on radio 2 is going to ride one 300mls to Scotland for children in need, Thats along way on a chopper.
Maybe I should give him a shout out in a channel community post?
I had a purple chopper 😂... Seriously i remember my Dad took me after school one day it was about 1977 to rhe shop as came back in a taxi with my Brand new bike , it had wonderful chrome Guards etc. Happy Days.
Fantastic memories Terry. It was more than a bike to many people 😁👍
Wish i still had mine, not for it's value but because i loved it.
Well said Shaun! 😁👍
I had a five gear version in a light blue colour. The gear shift consisted of two levers, one like the shown mark 2 and a smaller shift. Maybe manufactured mid 1970s? I’d be grateful for further info about it - sadly long gone.
Hopefully someone in the community can help you with info on the gear shift? 😁🤞👍
Mine was purple mrk2 and still bloody dangerous and yes I crashed mine hit parked car mate was on the back we shot forward, that bloody gear stick nearly lost my chance of having kids on good note I was off school for two weeks with crushed nuts 😂
Excellent ... there's a positive spin you can put on everything! 🤣👍
I remember in about 1970 the price ticket on it outside Halfords £36 that must have been a whole weeks wages before tax and other deductions for poor old dad in a general purpose job or even a week and a half….
You're probably right there. Didn't cross our minds as kids back then! 👍
Hi Mark, even I recognised the subject of this video 🤣 I must admit it looks like it was uncomfortable to ride. It's always interesting to see what iconic items like this sell for. Many thanks for the insight and best wishes as always. Sarah 😊
Thanks Sarah. Let's say, it was an acquired skill riding a Chopper safely!
@@antiquescentral It looks like it. 😊
It was good to ride. Not the slightest bit uncomfortable. Nearly impossible to ride "no hands" though. 😂
Had a Chopper Sprint back in 1972.
My elder brother had the mk 1 in orange, i had a browny goldish colour Edwards bike 🤔 if anyone can remember this bike, smaller version of the chopper 🤷🏼♂️
Will look up the Edwards bike, wasn't aware of it to be honest? 😁👍
I had the purple mk2 in 1973 and I really loved it, and I have now just bought two mk4 chopper's the red chopper and fizzy lemon chopper, and are my love and joy and brings back great memories
Excellent John. I'm sure you will love owning the two MK4s 😁👍
My parents couldn’t afford to buy me a chopper so i got a tracker bike..great days to be alive 🏴🇮🇪
Happy days! 😁
I brought a blue 💙 chopper off a school friend for $60,convinced my parents, 👍😀Lol,hours of fun
Great buy! 😁👍
Don’t forget the ‘backies’ (your mate squashed on the back of the seat, right behind you, or worse, painfully riding on the minuscule luggage rack at the back!!!).
I remember it well! 🤣👍
I had a Chipper & a Tomahawk as a kid but progressed to a Dawes dropped handlebar racer & never got to owning a Chopper unfortunately !! I remember my mate had 1 & the padding came off of the front of the seat exposing a metal plate, he had a epic crash riding around the park & the plate ripped half of his calf open, happy days.
Ouch! That sounds painful! 👍
I had a Grifter, it was like a tank. I loved it.
Had a chipper a budgie a boxer and a grifter loved every one of them.👌Not a big fan of the chopper tbh thought the striker was ugly aswell but proper retro stuff👌
Great collection over the years! 😁👍
That price range for Chopper bikes was unrealistic for a lot of us kids and we had to just make the best with second hand gear whatever we could get our hands on.
Very true Graham. I remember a lot of chopped up hybrid bikes made to look like Choppers back in the day. It was urban design artwork in itself! 😁👍
Had a mk2 in purple, rode it miles! Wish I hadn’t swapped it for a racing bike hearing these prices 🤔
Yes, I think we all wish we'd kept our 1970s & 1980s bikes now 😁👍
Thats cheap i want 10k for mine its not been used since 1976 keep in storage all its life so is mint condition and a show winner 🏆 🇬🇧
The buyer definitely did well. Not sure if they were in the trade or if it was a private buyer?
We used to call the handle bars 'Ape hangers' one of my mates had the front forks extended to look like a real motorised chopper but it wasn't great for tight turns 😂 I haven't seen one of these for decades.
Hadn't heard that name before? 😁👍
I had a red one. Loved it. These days Starmer would probably ban these.
Maybe the blue ones! 🤣
Awesome bike
Unfortunately I got a Raleigh Grifter back in 1978
What's your verdict on the Grifter?
I had the purple one. Bloody loved it
Has to be the most iconic bicycle of the 20th century?
On the back of the success of the chopper came the Raleigh Chipper, a smaller version if the chopper for little kids.
Makes you wonder how Raleigh didn't build on the success of these bikes? 🤔
Had one as a kid looked cool not that good this must have been a rick kid bike ridden little as we customized these a lot
I do remember there being lots of customised bikes back in the day! 😁👍
Not so good being on the back when doing a wheelie goes horribly wrong 🤣Great times!❤️
I can only imagine 🤣👍
Still got my purple Tomahawk chopper , just love it !
Excellent! Can you still ride it? 😁👍
I had a blue mark 2, best bike for wheelies and croggies.
What's a croggie? 🤣👍😁
I used to wheeley this piece of shite for miles 😂😂but I absolutely loved it 😅
Great memories! 😁👍
Its just a 5 min talking point and the beginning of street cred.
I wonder what bike street cred is now for kids?
Had 1 in 1970 you couldn't beat this fantastic time in life orange in colour loved it if you was born in the early 60s we was blessed
Don't think we realised how lucky we were back in the 60s 😁👍.
So right we know now allrigjt I've allready told my kids you've never had the childhood I had we all had the same nothing but we made do and it was fun coming off a council estate we was so happy
Blue one for a Christmas present,I think I remember my mum telling me cost £33 at the time. Mine had a black gear stick handle the used to unscrew which you had to take off if you went in a shop or rode it to school, because someone would have nicked it!
Would it have been a MK1 based on the gear stick? 😁👍
@@antiquescentral I’m guessing it was an early version with that gear stick, wish I had it now!
Mk 1 looked better and weighed a ton, I had a green one...no idea where it wound up.
Yes, they were solid built. I have no idea where my red MK2 went either? 😁👍
I had one in red , happy days
I can't remember what happened to mine, also red! 😁👍
Anyone remember the raliegh tomahawk 👍😁
Yes definitely. Sounds like a video of its own? 😁👍
I used to do taxi rides on mine due to the long seat. The only thing of importance to mention here is that during the 70's we also wore flared trousers, and they were notorious for getting caught up in the chain. A very heavy bike for long distances, comes with water blisters.
Great memories and the flares, the wider the better! 😁👍.
I had a red one I put tow tank aerials on it, loved it and well missed
Sounds classic Glen! 😁👍
had one same colour second hand.loved it.
Quite a rare colour apparently? 😁👍
Bloody lethal going fast downhill 😂
Yes, as I can testify to ... a faceful of gravel later! 😁👍
It was uncomfortable and hard work to ride, but that was worth it because you looked cool as fudge... I bet mine is still in a barn in Scotland where I grew up.
Definitely worth heading back up there to check! 😁👍
@@antiquescentral I'm going to ask my dad, he's still farming aging 94. I know I have a mongoose BMW bike , a grifter bike and my first car (or what's left of it) a mk5 2.3 litre cortina ..
He won't get rid of anything 😂
Brilliant! Sounds just like my dad! 😁 I'd put money on him still having it tucked away! 🤞👍😁
HORRIBLE BIKE TO RIDE ! BUT IT WENT FOR GOOD MONEY!
They definitely weren't the easiest bike to ride, as I can testify to by all the scrapes and scars I got as a kid!
Great bikes, I had one of these as a kid and you could carry a friend on the back, and don't forget the chipper
Hi Steve. The next video is a rundown of the top six kids bikes of the 70s and 80s! 😁👍
@@antiquescentral Nice one, what memories , I was a very small child during this time born 67 , These bikes were around when shakeboards came onto the scene, within a year the council resurfaced the very smooth tarmac ( great for skate boards and bikes ) to rough gravel . lol spoil sports
That sounds typical of the council! 🤣
Might as well go ahead and buy it . There's no Americans letting go of their Sting Rays for any less than twice that and an original Redline bmx bike will cost four to six times that much . Oh and EVERYTHING in America has been flipped about three or four times now . If that means anything .
The vendor had moved to the US, hence selling the bike. Would it have any value in the States being a British bike? 👍
@@antiquescentral At this time those are borderline thrift store bikes . Paint a giant British flag on it and it'll bring thousands and thousands . We love you guys but the markets just not hot for those right now . Wait for the next Austin Powers movie to come out . If I ever wind up with one I'll for sure take it to the body shop to have it done in a British Flag paint scheme . This has been a very interesting and thought provoking thread . Thanks !
@@randyscott3386 I love the idea of painting the Union Jack on the frame or mudguards! I can't believe Raleigh didn't think of that themselves for global sales? 😁👍
@@antiquescentral Do a design on computer or papper and pencil then take it to a body shop or computer vinyl overlay place . Then call Hollywood and London movie studios and tell em what ya got . But if I did all that I probably go ahead and hang onto to it . Larger auction houses would probably be very , very interested . Who knows ?
Nice but i prefer chrome bmx era.
Do you still have your bmx? 😁👍
I never had one my bro did. I liked my tomahawk
Quite a few people have mentioned Tomahawks 😁👍
Couldn't beat them , not as a kid anyhow lol
Worst bike design ever
@@grantoldblueeagle Thanks for posting your opinion 😁👍
I had the Mk1, with the knob gear stick. Orange..
I wonder where they all ended up? 😁👍
@@antiquescentral I moved from mum's to dad's & lost all my Childhood toys, football kits & 2 bikes, 1 being an original Chopper.
I feel your pain! 👍
Last time I saw a chopper bike was in a city called Alor Setar in Malaysia in 2006, I couldn't believe it when a guy came riding down the road on it, I remembered it from My brother having one in the UK in 1972-73 so to see one in Malaysia over 30 years later really stuck in my mind.
So that's where they all went? 😁👍
Mk2 here in yellow 😅
Stand out colour!
Great video I did bid on chopper I believe it's one of those items that will never diminish like corgi /dinky any quality toys really I see that 1990s toys and bikes like the BMX are fetching serious money now
Currently better than putting money in the bank! Although, prices can go up and down and they could go out of fashion once everyone who wants one has got one!
My cousin had one
Excellent, did they let you ride it? 😁👍
I had a tomahawk
It's become clear that everyone has fantastic and fond memories of their bikes back in the 70s and 80s 😁.
In about 1973-4 I had a Chopper. After a few crashes, I didn't anymore.
They were definitely a roller coaster ride! 😁👍
Whisked I’d looked after mine ,I was the oldest so I had the chopper my brother had the chipper I think it was called
I know exactly how you feel. A time machine would help? 😁👍
I had a mk2 1974 metallic green one with raised white letter writing on the back tyre. Loved that colour. I remember i was considering a red one but the green was a standout. I thought l was the man for an 8yo.
Definitely a stand out colour, brilliant! 😁
Prefer the mark 1.
The MK1 was definitely a hard-core ride! 😁👍
Does it come with a playing card & clothes peg for back wheel, vroom/vroom. 😂.
Why did they go out of fashion? 😂
I had a Raleigh chipper in that same colour, I remember so clearly riding around my cul de sac on it whilst eating a curlywurly, great times!
They should bring curlywurlys back! 👍
Who ever makes this bike into a fully functional ebike will be rich in a year, a chopper ebike WOW
Great idea! I wonder if it's been done already? 😁👍
I had a pink 5gear chopper which my parents bought an an auction in the late 70’s for 5£, Probably worth a fortune now, i knew no one else had one but did not realise how rare it was. Wished i had of kept it.
£5!!! What would a pink Chopper be worth now?! 👍
I had a go on my mates and nearly tore my conkers off on the gear shift.!!
🤣🤣🤣 I remember the feeling back in the 70s! 🤣🤣🤣
Abit like the johnny seven gun from the seventies increases unbelievably.
Yes agreed, there are very popular toys and bikes from the 70s that sell for a fortune 😁👍
I know someone who had a old new stock one in 84 in silver
I wonder if they've still got it?!
1 ramp + 1 Chopper + 1 Noel = minus 2 front teeth.
Hi Noel. Grit in my face after losing control on a steep hill and going over the handlebars is a vivid memory of mine! 😁👍
Got a red one Christmas 72, death trap 😵
Sends a shiver down my spine when I remember racing down hill back in the day! 🤣👍
I get nostalgia and this was way before my time but its junk ! I wouldn't give 10 for it
Interesting point of view 😁👍
@@antiquescentral Thanks 👍
I had a red chopper...and a bike aswell wahaaay did have a red chopper bike though seriously lol...and a grifter and a budgie...
Like me, I bet you wish you still had them? I honestly don't know what happened to my Chopper? 😪
@@antiquescentral yes I had 3 wheelers aswell lol one had a carrier box on the back to put stuff in haha...
@@davegonnaway6007 Happy days for sure! 😁👍
@antiquescentral yes good fun and sunny school holidays too lucky to get 2 days of sun now haha..
i had blue my sister had purple then a orange one came into my ownership.
Can you remember what happened to them?
@@antiquescentral i was about 9 or 10 when the first chopper landed under the xmas tree. many years of fun followed but i remember having my first drop handle for my 14th birthday and my dad taking 2 of the remaining choppers to a local scrap yard battered and bruised.
There must have been thousands scrapped! ☹
mine was blue.
Did you choose your colour or was your Chopper a surprise present? 😁👍
@@antiquescentral i chose it.
I JUST LOVED MY CHOPPER, AND THE GIRLS JUST LOVED GETTING ON IT, 😜😜😜, ID SELL MY SOUL TO THE DEVIL TO GO BACK TO THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE,, AND STAY THERE...
Just about sums it up! 🤣😁👍
@ 2:10 😄 So true!!
Yes, I have to smile when I think back to those days ... although I don't think I was smiling when I slid off the seat! 😂
@@antiquescentral cheers for the memory!! Found this channel by chance....really interesting, thanks.
Thank you for your reply! It means a lot to hear that you’re enjoying the channel and content. Hopefully, plenty more interesting antiques and vintage content on the horizon! 👍
I had a purple one and the silver one I went miles on em great bikes 👍🇬🇧
Agreed, lots of happy memories back in the day! 😁👍
I had 6 mk1's.. sold all 5 years ago
Hi Tim. That's interesting, selling all of them. Hope you got a good price 😁👍