![]() (Nottingham built bikes normally have a frame number stamped at the back of the seat tube towards the top. I wonder if you've have had a look for a frame number? All the SA bikes i have don't have a frame number stamped. ![]() Don't worry though most of the parts fitted to yours are correct for a SA Chopper Mk2. The crank you see fitted on your SA mk2 is the crank type normally fitted to the Raleigh RSW. The crank also differs from the GB market. Also the SA MK2 Chopper was fitted with parts that were traditionally fitted to the Raleigh Chopper MK1, like the sissy bar for instance. Firstly you have a colour and decals that weren't available in GB. The South African Raleigh Chopper model range differs from the model range in Great britain. What you have, as you know is a MK2 Raleigh Chopper that rolled out of the "Springs" factory here in South Africa. Well Bennie, How lucky are you to own such a rare iconic bike of the 70's. 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.I have just got this 70's Raleigh Chopper :D and would like to know if there are other Chopper owners out there that could assist me with information on possible websites/suppliers iro spares for the complete restoration of it.Īny other info would be greatly appreciated! ![]() 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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