oh ya I had a chopper back when I was about 11-12 ish, great bike,  loads of fun, the new one bares not resembalance to the original, the H&S Lobby have been let loose on it, waste of time.  I mean if your going to injure youself on a bike there are plenty of  objects to inflict injury, cross bar, handle bar, pedals, hell why don't they just ban bikes all together, I mean there obvioulsy far too dangerous, but now if they could make pavements out of rubber now that would be a good thing :lol:

I don't know dom, I don't think it would have made much differece, but I think it would be a problem, like Julian says, in low speed accidents, I wouldn't feel comfortable using them.