Dragstar
The real ones were made by Malvern Star.
They had sissybars on the back, banana seats (with flowers if you were a girl), a gear stick and those wicked handlebars.
We used to peg bits of cardboard to the spokes, so that you made engine noises as you rode along …...
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Bicycle and Blast from the Past Available for sale asT-Shirts
bites
ahw they were the coolest! nice one : )
samedog
Good work Cathie. Mine was a glittering burnt orange Malvern Star, very schpicko.
kathleen
mine had psychedelic flowers on the seat and a basket with a flower on the front… I remember the front tyre going through a gutter drain once and I flipped head over handlebars, squashed my poor little basket :-( squished it…
upload it to rumplo cath… don’t let them stop you getting exposure, make yourself a right pain in the tshirt arse….
Chanel2
One Xmas, one brother got this and the other a Raliegh Chopper! I was so jealous, I got a walkie talkie doll, what was I sposed to do with that! Long story, wrote a poem about it, but haven’t put it back up.
You’re conjuring up all sorts of memories now Cathie.
I love the colour and placement, looks really cool.
kathleen
Oh and I used to find that using cut bits from ice cream containers worked infinitely better than cardboard… dem were the days.
Danny
I always wanted a chopper
They were cool
You see a few of them around Melbourne these days
fully restored
Magic piece of design for back then
Sharon Hammond
Oh I forgot about dragstars. I wanted one bad,
Belinda Leopold
Cooooool ;)
Lawford
We had to make ours out of regular bikes using chrome chair legs as handle bars.
Of course we did the cardboard bit.
Tick tick tick tic tictic brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Cathie Tranent
My friend Sharon got one for Christmas, the same year I got a boring sensible Standish one.
My dad sat on her bike and the front wheel came off … drove the forks into the road! Thank heavens he wasn’t riding it!!
Ben Lucas
Cool tee. I remember these bikes, they were the ultimate for a kid, they were called choppers where I came from, sadly I never got to have one. I’ve recovered though.
Cathie Tranent
Thanks Ben!