The younger brother of the Chopper, the Grifter was the cool bike of the 80's. Like the Chopper, the Grifter was a chunky, heavy, cumbersome bike that felt more like a motorbike than a bicycle.
The most innovative thing about the Grifter was the gear shift which was incorporated in to the handle grips and was controlled with a twisting motion.
Do You Remember Raleigh Grifter?
Do You Remember Raleigh Grifter?
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A GOOD BRITISH BIKE, ALTHOUGH THE STRIKER,BOXER,COMMANDO AND GRIFTER WERE NEVER QUITE AS COOL AS THE TOMAHAWK, CHIPPER AND OF COURSE THE MIGHTY CHOPPER.
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I remember finding a discarded one in a skip along with spare tyres, managed to replace everything except for the massive seat which was split, so wet a*se in the rain scenario.
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i had one. they where ace ,solid,and hellish heavy
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I had a silver Striker (the one between the Grifter and the Boxer). Always wanted to graduate to a Grifter but my parents said I had to have a "proper" bike so got a 5 speed Raleigh Winner instead.
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I had a grifter before i got the bomber, towards the end of its life it got stuck in 3rd gear which was a nitemare when your a bit cheeky like i was and older kids or parents were chasing you. Like the bomber i kept snapping the forks. Heavy bike but great
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i swapped a 10 peed racer for a silver grifter and it was the best bike i ever had, put me on a hill with that bike and i could beat any bmx to the bottom. great bike.
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I had a chopper when I was young, a black MK2 with the shiny graphics. A school mate had a silver Grifter and it was more manouverable than my tank of a Chopper. We went up to the waste ground, hammering about. We swapped bikes and the fat bloke broke my Choppers seat from its seat post. GRRR!!
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i thought i was getting 1 of these beautys for christmas 1 year when they first came out ...i got up all excited and rushed down stairs to find a vile fold up bike and my mum trying to tell me that the grifter was too dangerous? she used the same excuse for me not to have the blue and yellow roller boots my grandad bought me ,!!!!
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Don't think it was the younger brother of the chopper, the grifter and boxer were so called brothers, the chipper and chopper were so called brothers, with a step brother called a tomahawk, i had them all, and blended them together to make allkinds of inbreds And got plenty of bruises from them, as you do, or as you did should i say, the chopper was the best, especially when you create an inbread from the grifter, you got the perfect rat bike
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had a grifter and a chopper, as an early learning spanner monket i grafted them together, and made a chifter,. chopper with a grifter front wheel, it handled like a bag of bricks, but it was a one of, till half the world started doing it
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