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Sudesh
12-04-2011, 08:20 PM
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Sudesh
12-04-2011, 08:21 PM
http://www.re-buy-cycle.co.uk/uploads/144/L/4.jpg
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nobby
12-04-2011, 09:35 PM
HOLY COW!!! have not seen one of those in years ... was this a find in your recent warehouse survey?

looks in great nick ... is the electronics still working?
Sudesh
12-04-2011, 09:44 PM
Unfortunately NO.............. Was on another site and came across the bike and reminded me of when they came out.
NSX 2000
12-04-2011, 10:43 PM
I have no idea what that bike is, but I did have a Raleigh BMX Burner.
SILVER BULLET
13-04-2011, 08:22 PM
Think they must have been before my time !!!:laugh:.
Don't think that I have ever seen one,I presume that they weren't around for long was it in the eighties ?

Cheers,

Ian
Hagasan
13-04-2011, 10:01 PM
Takes me back to about 80-81 ish I think?. I had a Raleigh Chopper (Santa Claus had run out of Grifters) and a lad down the road from me had one of these Vectar thingies. Looking back I guess they were kind of Tron inspired but I can't remember the dates that well. I guess Clive Sinclair was thinking along similar design q's with the C5. They came with daft "bug mum & dad" electronic beeps of the time, a speedo and a radio too, so high tech back then...I seem to remember the plastic wheels broke quite easily near the hubs with jumping up & down kerbs and crap wheelies, they were quite heavy....I'm sure they're worth a few bob nowadays......I had forgotten all about them until seeing these pictures....
dan the man
14-04-2011, 03:50 PM
omg ive rode one of these as a kid... but cant for the life in me remember if it was mine or a friends.... damn thats opened up my memory banks!!!
markc
19-04-2011, 03:47 PM
Damn that's one ugly, and necessarily heavy of course, bike! Neither of which matters a jot when your 10yrs old :)

Like Gary I was a Chopper man myself. Blue series one with a square rear "roll" bar and round (non T-bar) shifter :cool:

This is a pic from Le Mans in 2006, the "Beer Mountain" team doing it chopper stylee...

9001
Cheers

Mark