Summer Celebration/Memorial Meet @ Biggin Hall - PM Saturday 19th June

[tintin]

Originally Posted by tonupkid

Llandudno! Crazy, a kind of pier to pier networking Ray.

Very good Nick . Rest up Ray, drive carefully tomorrow, enjoy the seaside sunshine

[tonupkid]

Was this the bike you guys were discussing at Biggin Hall?

[tc4332]

Originally Posted by tonupkid

Was this the bike you guys were discussing at Biggin Hall?

I missed that conversation?????? But that is a Chopper.

[steamship]

Originally Posted by tc4332

I missed that conversation?????? But that is a Chopper.

That's the Chopper's baby brother (literally), the Tomahawk. Apart from size, only subtle differences including only a single gear. Aah, the halcyon days of Sturmey Archer gears.

[tintin]

Originally Posted by steamship

That's the Chopper's baby brother (literally), the Tomahawk. Apart from size, only subtle differences including only a single gear. Aah, the halcyon days of Sturmey Archer gears.

100% right Sean, and yes Nick, we were discussing both. I had a Tomahawk, as my working class Glaswegian parents couldn't stretch to "proper" Chopper - still great fun and great memories. I recently tried to buy a lovely red Chopper from a vintage (clothes!) store in Glasgow, but they told me they wouldn't sell it...

[tonupkid]

Originally Posted by tintin

100% right Sean, and yes Nick, we were discussing both. I had a Tomahawk, as my working class Glaswegian parents couldn't stretch to "proper" Chopper - still great fun and great memories. I recently tried to buy a lovely red Chopper from a vintage (clothes!) store in Glasgow, but they told me they wouldn't sell it...

Well this Tomahawk currently resides in an amazing reclamation yard. I say amazing because of both the astonishing variety of items and the fact that almost everything I enquired about was already sold. So this one might, just might be for sale.

Here's another of their offerings (or perhaps not)

[tintin]

...and very belatedly, I've attached the (final..) version of our tribute book to Mark. The hardcopy of this was actually presented to Lyn a few months ago, but a number of other things have got in the way of me posting this on here - so apologies for that, if you were wondering what had happened to this

Thanks to all of those on (and off!) this forum who provided input to this, in terms of photos, ideas and support generally in pulling this together, and in particular to Ray, who was closest of all of us to Mark, for providing the opening words to this short tribute.

A number of you have asked for a hardcopy of this, and I should finally get round to posting those out to you this week (provided I'm off crutches to post them, that is ), so please watch out for that.

There are still a few spare hardcopies remaining, so if you'd like one, then please let me know - priority will go to those who've provided photos for this book.

Lyn absolutely loves this book, and wanted me to thank everyone for their support since Mark's passing, and for putting this together in his memory. My copy is still on my coffee table, and not likely to be put away anytime soon.

[tc4332]

Originally Posted by steamship

That's the Chopper's baby brother (literally), the Tomahawk. Apart from size, only subtle differences including only a single gear. Aah, the halcyon days of Sturmey Archer gears.

This old fella is suitably chastised and accepts the correction.

[steamship]

Originally Posted by tintin

I had a Tomahawk, as my working class Glaswegian parents couldn't stretch to "proper" Chopper

I'm not sure what my first bike was, but it was one of those fold up ones that my father bought secondhand.

Originally Posted by tc4332

This old fella is suitably chastised and accepts the correction.

Would never chastise you Ray, just clarify.