Can I have a blue peter badge....?

[Craig Tucker]

Yeah, I had one, but most of my mates had Grifters.

Regards,

Rob

I had a Chopper, cool bike, you could get about 5 people on it. Most comfortable saddle ever on a bike, and really good for wheelies. Couple of my mates had Grifters, no where near as cool. One good thing I remember about them is you could fold the front mudflap backwards so it rubbed against the tyre. So whan riding along the flap rubbing against the nobbles of the chunky tyres sounded like a little motorbike. Soon wore out the mudflaps though

[rhegedus]

Didn't you use cardboard folded over and pegged to the back strut and into the spokes to get that motorbike sound? We did.

[Will Hay]

Didn't you use cardboard folded over and pegged to the back strut and into the spokes to get that motorbike sound? We did.

I used a segment of a yogurt pot, and rode up the street with my pal next to me for hours (Chips - you remember it?).
You on his striker (junior grifter I think) and me on the tommohawk (junior chopper).
Great days.
Will

[rhegedus]

Of course, there was also The Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, Streethawk, The A-Team, Matt Houston, A Man Called Sloane......

[Craig Tucker]

I thought the Boxer was the junior Grifter. Anyway these pics sould take you down memory lane.

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/chopper.htm

[rhegedus]

If we're not careful, we'll go down the childhood sweets road: cola pips stuck to the paper bag, lemon sherberts, Wham bars, space dust, flying saucers..............

[Will Hay]

If we're not careful, we'll go down the childhood sweets road: cola pips stuck to the paper bag, lemon sherberts, Wham bars, space dust, flying saucers..............

What, you mean like 2p a bag tomato flavour snaps with the red dragon on the front?

[Craig Tucker]

Fruit salads, mojo's and blackjacks

[rhegedus]

Ah yes, those were the days. Long summer holidays, 6 hour games of football, endlessbike rides to fish some remote stream, 5p ice lollies....... Don't think our kids will have it so good

[Will Hay]

....... Don't think our kids will have it so good

hmmm, I dunno.
We didn't have two ha'pennies to rub together at our house.
I remember being at a friends house and being offered a kit-kat - we never got anything other than cheap, supermarket-own brand biscuits at our house
One thing I'm going to do with my son is make sure he never goes without.
Will

[Will Hay]

...and get this :-
When my mum and dad moved house in 1974, up until that point they had a house with an outside toilet!.
So, when your gran tells you you've never had it so good and when she was a lass she had an outside toilet just remember, we had one in the 70's!
Will

[rhegedus]

Isn't that what being from 'up north' is all about? Lard butties, shorts in winter, Santa losing your address...........

[Will Hay]

Isn't that what being from 'up north' is all about? Lard butties, shorts in winter, Santa losing your address...........

Yeah.
I got an apple and orange for Christmas last year, and I'm 32
Will

[i_am_dave]

Silky,

The E-bay auction for the Blue Peter Badge ended this morning.

$37
Better luck next time!

[Will Hay]

Silky,

The E-bay auction for the Blue Peter Badge ended this morning.

$37
Better luck next time!

Oh yeah, forgot about that!
Thanks for the reminder, but I wouldn't have stretched to that and plus, I'd have felt like a phoney, I didn't deserve it
Will

[tgpo]

Who is it that gives it for real? Is it some sort of reward of something?

[Will Hay]

Who is it that gives it for real? Is it some sort of reward of something?

I thought you'd read the thread gramps?
The BBC programme 'Blue Peter' gives them out, for different reasons.
Here, only because it's you.
Will

[tgpo]

Why not go for the gold?