Raleigh Vektar.

[Carl_steveo]

Quick question, does anybody remember the price these were originally?

https://i698.photobucket.com/albums/vv345/carl_steveo/60a4c7850f509500d69fe4b42c7de0f8.jpg
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[plugger147]

Pretty sure they were 209 in the old dears catalogue, they were on the same page as the burner I was lusting after at the time
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[Carl_steveo]

Wow that's like £528 in today's money. Crazy crazy crazy. Cheers buddy.
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[TheSmiler]

*Awaits the epic gloryfying of pits bike now*

Looks truly square
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[Tarmacsurfer]

Does it play the StreetHawk music? It looks like it should play it.
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[Jynister]

That looks pretty cool. I'm off to eBay.
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[janner_10]

Im alate 70's/ 80's child, first time i've ever seen it. My childhood was all Griftas and Commandos - didn't know this bastard existed at the time.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

I remember them from the early to mid 1980s. Don't think that many were sold but think there was also a lookalike version without the electronics.

The current equivalent price might sound high, but then things were relatively more expensive then

All the best

Keith
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[angryjonny]

A lad on our estate had one. I was insanely jealous at the time (my BMX-a-like was from Asda) but just wow. It's aged almost as badly as Streethawk. Somewhere under all that drag is a BMX stylee frame made of cast iron.

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[Fisty]

I had a second hand one in 1986 for christmas (was all the folks could afford)
It had a motherfucking am radio on it, speedo type thing and a synthesizer IIRC!!!

It got stolen off my folks garden on boxing day, I was so upset
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[UnknownStuntm...]

In 1985 I got a bike for Christmas. Was a Falcon Pro Beta, like this one, but with spokes not mags:https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/motomagII/falcon001.jpg
I was yabbering for ages I wanted a Falcon Pro, my mates had Thetas (silver and yellow) or Kappas (blue and yellow), so my dad bought me one to be different. Except dad didn't know the local bully also had a Beta. When I saw it in the garden I remember saying "Get Scott's bike out of here, he's going to kill me!"

Of course he didn't, but his mother bought him one of those Raleigh things and he quickly lost his status at the top of the tree. They were "gay as fuck".

I want one.

[BigJoe78]

peep this my fellow nerdz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBuDw0oTOIU&feature=related

I remember them, ridiculous and weighed a ton, the black one looked "better" but thats not saying much is it.

Mind you I had the world's campest coloured BMX back in the day, like this but mine also had blue and gum tyres, also front and rear pegs, oh aye.

https://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg88/burnerworld2/StylerMag.jpg
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[Minty]

Now let me tell you a story. As told to me by the victim, a work colleague.

It was rural Ireland and times were hard. A 12 year old lad was asked what he wanted for Christmas:

"Ma, oid love one of them Raleigh Choppers, so I would. Ah begora, be jayzus".

Ma had a look of love and scrimped all she could in the run up to Christmas.

The 12 year old lad scampered down stairs on Christmas morning to see a bike shaped object in wrapping paper.

Picture the face as he finds, wrapped inside:

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4090/5013299764_35c2a6854a_z.jpg

A Raleigh Shopper. And yes, I'm advised it did have the basket on the front too.


That's Oirish accents for you. Now imagine the next few years of riding that to school when all your mates are on these:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/images/2007/05/18/raleigh_chopper_01_350x350.jpg
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[MarJay]

I've got a 1980's Diamondback Joker in my garage. Its a top quality BMX! Probably cost a bomb back in 1988.
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[recman]

Aaah! That Vektar was, and still is, an awful looking thing!
Not even proper Skyways, ffs!

The Raleigh Gold Burner was the tits back then.

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Yuk ! Worse than a Grifter but probably weighs less.
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[hmmmnz]

i used to have a walens trident
https://i49.tinypic.com/2m64irq.jpg

it was so awesome, it even had a drive shaft... no chain ftw
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[Vincent]

When the Raleigh Chopper came out, they were £35. I remember because my folks refused to pay that much for a new bike on my 8th B'day Instead, they bought me this Italian made thing. A few days later, the same bike was featured on the local news as they had been found to be poorly manufactured and had a habit of falling apart with the rider on it I reckon the story was made up by Raleigh though. Note the trainers and AV tracky, pretty trend setting for 1970 huh?

https://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j71/Drewskovitch/Chopper001.jpg

I found this for sale recently made, or at least sold, by Yamaha:-

https://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j71/Drewskovitch/YammyChopper1.jpg
https://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j71/Drewskovitch/Yammychopper3.jpg
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[mistergixer]

I got a green Striker for Xmas when I was 5, I thought it was awesome.

I found out recently that my Dad had bought it 2nd hand, repainted it, and even managed to obtain a new set of decals for it.

He told me there was no way they could've afforded a new bike, so my Dad hid it in the garage for months, and worked on it whenever I was in bed.

All his effort worked, I never knew it was 2nd hand, I'd always thought it was new.

My Dad - he's ace.


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