My stash just grew again 2018.

[zenrat]

Also, a Revell 1/32 Corvette C3 (1969) managed to escape the local toy store when I went in to buy some paints.


https://www.revell.de/en/products/model-building/cars/young-oldtimer/id/07684.html

Very simple kit but I love that era 'Vette.

I love the Raleigh Chopper pushbike in the background - very 1970s (yes, I did have one...)

Looks more like a Schwinn Sting-Ray to me H.
http://schwinnstingray.net/blog/1973-schwinn-stingray-orange-krate/

Yeah, fair comment. I'd never heard of the Sting-Ray until now: cheers. I just assumed the painting was a bit 'off' because they were trying to make it generic, probably for copyright reasons.

They're both the same genre of 1970s ape-hangars/banana-seat/sissy-bar/gear-stick pushbike, trying to look like the custom motorbikes of the era.

Check out the prices for the restored Schwinns though.
I could get a decent car for that money.

[Weaver]

Check out the prices for the restored Schwinns though.
I could get a decent car for that money.

Yeah I noticed... 

They look much nicer than a Raleigh Chopper: much 'finer' and therefore (I imagine) lighter. The weight of the Chopper, combined with it's poor choice of gear ratios was always my biggest complaint about it, since I live at the top of a hill...

[zenrat]

I never had one but I found from crashing riding my mates bikes that taking a hand off the bars to change gear wasn't always a good idea...

[NARSES2]

I was way to old to have had a Raleigh Chopper or anything similar but I did have some experience with "cowhorn" handlebars. In the 60's me and my mates tended to have two bikes, a good "racer" for road use and a home made bike for estate use. Mate of mine's estate bike had the biggest pair of "cowhorns" I ever saw. Only rode it a few times as it was near impossible to steer. I assume that the commercial chopper's were easier.

Meanwhile the stash has seen the arrival of a Arma Hobby 1/72 PZL P.7a

[Old Wombat]

I had a Malvern Star Dragstar. The kid on the bike in this photo could almost be me ... only I was taller & (although skinny) better muscled, my hair was darker (same haircut, though), I didn't wear pink socks & my bike was gold.

[Mossie]

My brother had a Raleigh Tomahawk, the smaller kids version of the Chopper.  My grandma and Grandad had a blue Chopper that I used to ride. It eventually came to ours but I didn't ride it much, I had another bike that wasn't so hard to ride, the gears didn't work and they were a bit of fashion by then.

The Schwinn Stingray is back around as a new build, I looked at getting one for one of my twin daughters for Christmas but bought something more conventional.

[PR19_Kit]

Dear, oh dear. 

For PURE 1960s cycling nostalgia you should try a Moulton.



That's me and my 1963 Moulton M3 Safari which I bought in 1963 and the pic was taken last year. It cost £43/19/11 back then, which is around £750 worth in today's money.   

I've got three other Moultons of various sorts too.

[Squizzette]

Just arrived from Leading Observer,

1 x 1/72 Revell NH90 NFH "Navy"
1 x 1/72 Heller Nord 2501 Noratlas

Squizz

[The Wooksta!]

Won on ebay:

Eduard Spitfire VIII "Aussie Eight"

Only bid because even with postage it worked out cheaper than a pair of Profipack mk VIIIs.  Plus I can sell the book on and get a few quid back.

[Weaver]

Dear, oh dear. 

For PURE 1960s cycling nostalgia you should try a Moulton.

That's me and my 1963 Moulton M3 Safari which I bought in 1963 and the pic was taken last year. It cost £43/19/11 back then, which is around £750 worth in today's money.   

I've got three other Moultons of various sorts too.

That's you where exactly? I know you're in the pic somewhere, but I can't quite make out where because you're so inconspicuous...

[Thorvic]

Dear, oh dear. 

For PURE 1960s cycling nostalgia you should try a Moulton.

That's me and my 1963 Moulton M3 Safari which I bought in 1963 and the pic was taken last year. It cost £43/19/11 back then, which is around £750 worth in today's money.   

I've got three other Moultons of various sorts too.

That's you where exactly? I know you're in the pic somewhere, but I can't quite make out where because you're so inconspicuous...

Its the wrong hat, that why your struggling H 

[NARSES2]

The kid on the bike in this photo could almost be me ... only I was taller & (although skinny) better muscled, my hair was darker (same haircut, though), I didn't wear pink socks & my bike was gold.

Yea, we believe you 

I'm just amazed at how young most of you lot are. When you were playing on Chopper bikes etc I was engaged/married !

[Old Wombat]

The kid on the bike in this photo could almost be me ... only I was taller & (although skinny) better muscled, my hair was darker (same haircut, though), I didn't wear pink socks & my bike was gold.

Yea, we believe you 

I'm just amazed at how young most of you lot are. When you were playing on Chopper bikes etc I was engaged/married !

You're only 11 years older than me, Chris. You must have married fairly young because if you'd married at the age I married (39) I'd have been at uni (mature-age entrant) studying for my BSc (which I didn't finish), if you'd married at the age I was when my wife & I moved in together (33), well, I'd have been in the NT Police Force.

[PR19_Kit]

Dear, oh dear. 

For PURE 1960s cycling nostalgia you should try a Moulton.

That's me and my 1963 Moulton M3 Safari which I bought in 1963 and the pic was taken last year. It cost £43/19/11 back then, which is around £750 worth in today's money.   

I've got three other Moultons of various sorts too.

That's you where exactly? I know you're in the pic somewhere, but I can't quite make out where because you're so inconspicuous...

Hehehe, on the exact centre of the Old Severn Bridge actually, but next time I'll ensure I wear something brighter. 

[NARSES2]

You're only 11 years older than me, Chris. You must have married fairly young because if you'd married at the age I married (39) I'd have been at uni (mature-age entrant) studying for my BSc (which I didn't finish), if you'd married at the age I was when my wife & I moved in together (33), well, I'd have been in the NT Police Force.

Yup, engaged at 19 and married at 21 (Janet was 20) which was fairly standard at the time. Left school at 16, could have left at 15. Divorced, amicably, we are still good friends, at 28. Never been there again, to close for comfort at times, but 

I think things started to change in the U.K. when it became the norm to go on in formal education until 18 or then 21 or latter a few years latter. In particular those of us born in the early 50's grew up in post-War, austerity Britain and played on bomb sites. Those born 10 years latter grew up in the swinging 60's and the start of the consumer society. It's one of those great historically dividing lines that mark out distinct eras in my view.