Raleigh chopper mk3

[Davelilly27]

Hi I have just purchased a Raleigh chopper mk3 but not sure what year it is could anyone here help much appreciated

 

[Mark Manley]

It looks like the MK3 was produced between 2004 and 2012, I am not sure how you would narrow it down any closer for your actual bike though.

Chopper

 

[Canuk]

Don't know much about Raleigh frame numbers after 2000, but this looks a later model with the style of gripshift, probably 2010-12. A nice find.

 

[legrandefromage]

Unfortunately these were a bit of a cynical attempt to cash in on the nostalgia surrounding the original.

It's aluminium, faded and a teeny bit naff.

 

[bagpuss]

No ball buster gear lever.

 

[LondonClassic]

Unfortunately these were a bit of a cynical attempt to cash in on the nostalgia surrounding the original.

It's aluminium, faded and a teeny bit naff.

But...prices are creeping up. They seem to have achieved some kind of legitimacy in the s/h chopper market. As the Mk3 stock has risen Mk1&2 prices have fallen.

Regardless - welcome to RB @Davelilly27

 

[legrandefromage]

Only by people trying to cash in on the nostalgia of nostalgia. The forks look a bit bent, the paint is faded to buggery, it's hardly worth the effort and expense to add Di2 and a narrow/wide chainring

 

[Nob]

Hope you didn’t pay too much for it being a very poor replica of an icon..

 

[Canuk]

I used my Chopper mark 1 to go to school on. And the shops and even to the seaside once, 20 miles (though I had to get the train home on account of my first case of the 'bonk'). It was sea foam blue, and it got me proper street cred in the playground. I even used it to pull a girl, though two people on a 20 inch chopper back wheel was never really a good idea

 

[Canuk]

It was pretty identical to this. My dad bought it me from a 'bloke in the pub'.