Norman Jay: why I fell in love with the Raleigh Chopper

The groundbreaking DJ is also a Chopper fanatic and has been hooked on them since childhood, he saysIt was the summer of 1969. I was playing 20-a-side football in my local park and a guy rode past on a canary-yellow Raleigh Chopper. Suddenly our game stopped and 40 kids ran up, staring in disbelief at this bike, and asking if they could ride it. It was the first bike that came with its own prop stand. Parked up, it looked like a motorbike. I was bowled over when I discovered that a Chopper Mark...

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