![]() Most parts were plated along with some feature 22ct Gold plate. What Parts & Who BY?: In house and J Wyatt.Īll forks and one off parts along with engraved areas to be plated or re-plated. Tail Light(s): Paul Yaffe Other: Green Led high light strips hidden through out the bike.Ĭolour(s): Shades of candy green with a colour changing fleck under the candy and a movement flake on top of the candy. Side flutes on each side of frame all made in house. Head stock area all fab and blending in house. ignition key and led lamp module all in house. Tailpiece/Rear 'Guard: Custom item with much modsīellypan/Other Bodywork: Oil tank. Chain jockey wheel in house.įront Mudguard: Modified Paul Yaffe with extra side barbs and hand cut relief pattern on top with raised flutes on top and side Handlebars: Hand made in house including all barb metal work and blendingĬhain & Sprockets: Revtec nickel plated chain and Xtreme sprocket. own design custom madeįorks: Custom built 10” over 70's Harman style built in the States with added work and mods in house Make & Model: 2008 rigid spoon style with 48 deg rake. Oil lines rubber and covered with green layer then surrounded by stainless coil spring for effect. Head(s): Revtec Powdercoated candy green with diamond cutting edge effectīarrel(s): Revtec Powdercoated candy green with diamond cutting edge effectĬarb(s): Twin IDF dual throat CarburettorsĪirbox/filters: Straight through air rams Make & Model: 2009 one off custom Chopper The pics just really don't do this machine justice. Would be ideal as a crowd puller or as a piece of art. EVERYTHING on the bike was new when the bike was built. The bike is a non runner but has run and have pics to prove. The machine was built as a show bike to demonstrate the quality of workmanship the builder could produce. Many parts have been sited not for ease or efficiency. including an award from the World Championships. An award winning bike with 107 awards in total. ![]() We’ll have to wait and see whether the release of the new Raleigh Chopper will stimulate further success across the different sides of the business.This is The Mantis. Kidger says the electric bike market isn’t growing at the rate Raleigh would like it to, but it’s still double the size it was in 2019, and Raleigh has seen “some real successes over the last five or six years in that market”.Īs an indicator of this success, the Financial Times reports Kidger estimates Raleigh’s share of the UK’s electric bike market to be around 5 per cent and that Raleigh made a pre-tax profit of £2.82m on sales of £74.5m in 2020. Recently, it released the Raleigh Modum, a folding e-cargo bike. It has been adapting to the cargo and electric bike market for a number of years, with ebikes becoming a core part of its business in 2018. The brand was bought in 2012 by the Accell Group, one of the biggest electric bike manufacturers and brand owners in Europe. Kidger says ebikes provide an opportunity for Raleigh to expand: “We’ve identified that as a real growth area for the business, and we’ve pivoted Raleigh into that emerging market,” says Kidger. Kidger hopes the Chopper will appeal to people’s hearts and minds. “Electric bikes are the single biggest benefit to a lot of the challenges the UK faces at the moment, in terms of congestion charges, and net zero and sustainability targets that have come in,” he says. In turn, Raleigh’s electric bikes provide practical solutions to facilitate this move to more frequent cycling, and Kidger suggests they could help people take kids to school, replace a second car and help with wider issues. Kidger says this is where releasing heritage models joins up with the more modern side of Raleigh’s business: electric bikes.īy pulling on the hearts and minds of people in evoking the heritage of the brand through bikes such as the Chopper, Kidger hopes Raleigh will convince people to cycle more. Kidger says the Raleigh Chopper created a “movement” in the 1970s, with the bike encapsulating a sense of joy, freedom and fun.ĭesigning a new Chopper, which so closely resembles Choppers of old, is a way for Raleigh to help people rediscover what Kidger calls the “contagious joy of cycling”. Lee Kidger says Raleigh wants people to rediscover the “contagious joy of cycling”.
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