Done a great job there Classy Cas!



I got a Grifter for Christmas in the late 70's. They were a remarkably tough bike, only problem with it was the gears...rode around with it stuck in 3rd gear for years, good for building leg strength though I guess!

Yes i remember the cow horns put some on my racer bike back in the 80s to do better wheelies

Quote duke street 10="duke street 10"Done a great job there Classy Cas! I got a Grifter for Christmas in the late 70's. They were a remarkably tough bike, only problem with it was the gears...rode around with it stuck in 3rd gear for years, good for building leg strength though I guess!'" Cheers not bad for a 35 year old bike, having problems with the gears at the moment they change fine on the twist grip but the toggle chain aint moving,so bought a new gear cable as the old one looks like its seen its days. I joined a raleigh grifter forum to get help in rebuilding the bike back together some useful stuff on there and some good restorations too. www.raleighgrifter.proboards.com/index.cgi

Quote duke street 10="duke street 10"Done a great job there Classy Cas! I got a Grifter for Christmas in the late 70's. They were a remarkably tough bike, only problem with it was the gears...rode around with it stuck in 3rd gear for years, good for building leg strength though I guess!'" Cheers not bad for a 35 year old bike, having problems with the gears at the moment they change fine on the twist grip but the toggle chain aint moving,so bought a new gear cable as the old one looks like its seen its days. I joined a raleigh grifter forum to get help in rebuilding the bike back together some useful stuff on there and some good restorations too. www.raleighgrifter.proboards.com/index.cgi

I had a Raleigh Commando similar to this one. Ace bike apart from, as already mentioned, sturmey-archer gears that never worked properly..

I had a Raleigh Commando similar to this one. Ace bike apart from, as already mentioned, sturmey-archer gears that never worked properly..

Superb pics! Brought back some happy memories. I had a silver Grifter with the larger mudguard. I loved it. The blue, yellow and red gears, the comfy saddle. Miles better than a BMX. Had a Budgie before I was big enough for the Grifter.

Great job that CC!



Doing them up like that you should start a little business knocking 'em out.There'll be plenty of old un's like us who would have one

I love the Grifter and what a great looking restoration job.

I had an old Chopper that a paper round customer gave me one Christmas. Somehow I managed to bend the frame, but undeterred I made what we used to call a scrambler. You took an old "racer", swapped the back wheel for one from a Chopper/Grifter/BMX (no back brake obviously) and turned the drop handlebars around to point upwards. It must have looked feckin stupid, but there were plenty of them around at the time.







I remember seeing a few Choppers with cowhorns, they looked so wrong!

i remember putting the forks and front wheel from my first mountain onto the frame of an old Ultra Burner with CW bars, it was mental to ride, i named it The Phantom Bellringer, those was thhe days