Car (or bike) Chat!

I had a race bike which I toured with when young.. yup kids were allowed to do that then lol.. Chopper came out for kids here I think in 70's.. I was getting close to hanging up my bike clips by then.

I was too young when the chopper first came out, they surfaced about 1970ish so id have only been a couple years old lol. the reason i bought the orange one cos i never had one. My first bike was the 'Budgie' lost that & did not have a bike for years till i got bough a BSA 'Bullet' boys racer when i got a big lad

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Originally Posted by Made in 1968

I was too young when the chopper first came out, they surfaced about 1970ish so id have only been a couple years old lol. the reason i bought the orange one cos i never had one. My first bike was the 'Budgie' lost that & did not have a bike for years till i got bough a BSA 'Bullet' boys racer when i got a big lad

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I think Raleigh did a "Chipper" for the nippers :)

Not sure when exactly the 'Chipper' came out but even that would have been too big for me when i had the 'Budgie'

Fair few there

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RALEIGH-C...gAAMXQAx9ROq4l

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

I think Raleigh did a "Chipper" for the nippers :)

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lol :) - Yes ya right Steve, I had one when I was about 6/7, first bike and you've really brought back the memories. Loved the bikes I had when I was a kid, right up until leaving school.

I feel sorry for kids these days. Utter utter shit compared to what we had as kids

Proper bikes would be wasted on today's iPad generation kids anyway - it would have to come with sat nav and an electric motor, neither of which would stop them crashing into the first parked car they encounter ;)

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Proper bikes would be wasted on today's iPad generation kids anyway - it would have to come with sat nav and an electric motor, neither of which would stop them crashing into the first parked car they encounter ;)

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Re crashing - just read a review (Which) of a Renault Zoe electric car. The review mentions that the "all-important" AEB won't be available until April - where AEB= Automatic Emergency Braking. All-important?

I've been driving for far too long now - but I don't make a habit of driving into brick walls, and none of the cars I've ever driven has had any such feature - so I would query the review's "all important" wording.

Seems that it isn't just push bike kids who don't look where they're going.

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Without AEB being standard, it's basically impossible to get a five-star safety rating from Euro NCAP (as of 2019). If the car gets three stars or less in Euro NCAP safety tests, it'll be automatically rated as a Don't Buy by us.[Which]

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So what part of 4 stars would still be OK even without the AEB don't the Which reviewers get?

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Originally Posted by dave2010

Re crashing - just read a review (Which) of a Renault Zoe electric car. The review mentions that the "all-important" AEB won't be available until April - where AEB= Automatic Emergency Braking. All-important?

I've been driving for far too long now - but I don't make a habit of driving into brick walls, and none of the cars I've ever driven has had any such feature - so I would query the review's "all important" wording.

Seems that it isn't just push bike kids who don't look where they're going.



So what part of 4 stars would still be OK even without the AEB don't the Which reviewers get?

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My car has that, although its switchable. Handy and does work, although I doubt I would want to trust it too much. It can also decide if youve taken ill/fallen asleep and stop the car at side of rd(not tried that lol).
The motorway system is good in that it will follow traffic speeds in front.. that does work, even on non motorway rds although you have to be careful there, as its not really intended there... sharp bends can cause major accelerations lol