The
1970s Raleigh chopper
bicycle enjoyed a brief period of popularity when I was in
junior school around 1980. I thought they were
cool at the time.
This popularity ended after several kids had accidents on them. The slow braking due to the weight and the dificulties of steering the long, low bike with the undersized front wheel made them unsafe.
Come a cropper on a chopper rapidly became the schoolyard scuttlebut.
As amnesiac noted, the bike's styling (I hesitiate to call it design, as no thought to suiting form to function could have gone into it) has fortunately not been revived. BMX bikes were as much a fad a few years later, but at least they were well designed for riding and are thus still occasionally seen.