Amazing achievement riding a Chopper from Wrexham to Glasgow and so far raising nearly £7m

I’m not his biggest fan when it comes to watching him on telly but this has to be recognised as a fantastic feat.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/live/cp875rjrylpt

Edited November 15, 20241 yr by freds dad

Well done Paddy, fantastic effort👍

I loved my Raleigh Chopper, had the very rare space blue colour, wish I'd kept it now. Think my Mum gave it to some workman.

Raised £7.5M. Fair play.

28 minutes ago, Blondi said:

I loved my Raleigh Chopper, had the very rare space blue colour, wish I'd kept it now. Think my Mum gave it to some workman.

What happened to the bike though..

Original Mk1 & Mk2s are worth a lot of money, i saw a Mk3 outside a 2nd hand shop few years back, it didn't have the original long seat but i wondered if i could convert it , went in and offered £90 they weren't interested so i walked away.

The real cool kids had a Tomahawk or a budgie  😳 

well done bet it was hard work on One of them 

buy Why 

WREXHAM 

50 minutes ago, little whitt said:

well done bet it was hard work on One of them 

buy Why 

WREXHAM 

Travelled through 3 countries sounds better than 2

1 hour ago, Duck Egg said:

The real cool kids had a Tomahawk or a budgie  😳 

my first bike was a budgie

3 hours ago, little whitt said:

well done bet it was hard work on One of them 

buy Why 

WREXHAM 

Social experiment to see if they spoke in Welsh as soon as he arrived!

 

5 hours ago, Duck Egg said:

The real cool kids had a Tomahawk or a budgie  😳 

Grifter for me, did my paper round on it nice n bonny 

Just had a gander on the raleigh site they've released a 2024 chopper £999 with 10%to comic relief

 

17 minutes ago, itdiddidit? said:

 

Grifter for me, did my paper round on it nice n bonny 

Just had a gander on the raleigh site they've released a 2024 chopper £999 with 10%to comic relief

 

I had a grifter. All I remember is that it weighed more than the family car

4 hours ago, Sweep said:

my first bike was a budgie

Same here

Anasol were his biggest sponsor

2 hours ago, itdiddidit? said:

 

Grifter for me, did my paper round on it nice n bonny 

Just had a gander on the raleigh site they've released a 2024 chopper £999 with 10%to comic relief

 

I wonder if it's still got the gear lever in front of your bollocks ( ouch)

Beat Vernon by £1m

Tremendous effort! Fair play to him. Such a cool bike in the 70s. Didn’t have one, but always wanted one.

Do remember Grifters being big heavy fuckers though. Also Boxers and Strikers - think they were bikes of the day.

 

Well done Patrick

brilliant

9 million

Chris Hoy

Wow

Plenty on here probably saw Paddy's first ever attempt at stand up comedy. He was awful.

This has put him back in credit. 

3 hours ago, dusan nikolic said:

I wonder if it's still got the gear lever in front of your bollocks ( ouch)

Grifter had the twist shift on the handlebars another reason it was far superior 

This place has gone to the dogs 

Local lad done good. Booooo!!!!!!!!

Always wanted a Chopper. Dad was a road racer with Lancashire Clarion so not a chance I was getting one. First proper bike was a Falcon from a shop at Tramways in Astley Bridge

I was the boring kid on a racer. Mate had the purple Chopper with the pink writing. He was one of those who had an ‘unfortunate’ accident. Other one had red one with yellow writing iirc. He lost his front teeth. I quite liked my boring bike after that

9 hours ago, frank_spencer said:

Grifter had the twist shift on the handlebars another reason it was far superior 

Much prefered my Grifter , tough as old boots and like you say a easy gear system . Happy days.

15 hours ago, Spider said:

I had a grifter. All I remember is that it weighed more than the family car

Was to small for a Grifter 

so had the Little version 

Boxer 

15 minutes ago, little whitt said:

Was to small for a Grifter 

so had the Little version 

Boxer 

You still are