THE Raleigh Bicycle Company could soon no longer exist, but its famous Choppers required a lot of imagination to be cool. drawings of the characters from the rather dull 1979 film you could fold at the bottom to make them stand up. Believing they in any way resembled proper action figures was a true triumph of the imagination. In reality they just made a cap come off the barrel with a ‘pop’, or would have done if they’d ever worked. A total disappointment, but they taught you that things that seem good frequently turn out to be shit.