This is my second muscle bike project. Its a raleigh chopper mk1, a 68? It was missing some parts when i got it but i think its good to go now. The bike is already stripped and pianted camero gold, paint code 53. I tried to bid twice on ebay for an original seat but lost out on both so im gonna have it reupholstered the same way with leather, well maybe. I call it the cobra just out of fun of saying, what if I designed for Raleigh, I would do something like this. I really hated the knobby rear tires so i got a nos slick from ebay i was eyeing for a while. This is what it looked like in april.
I got all the parts i wanted. Some not shown. The rear wheel came already re-chromed from the Uk.
My donor bike is a 70's Raleigh sport where I'll be taking the caliper's and breaks from. I think i might be able to use the bearings also because the chopper has some wrong ones.
My insperation. A 71 camero z28.
Also have you guy's ever seen a chopper that didn't have the cotter pin like this? And in the other end of the kick-stand instead? Someone told me my kickstand resembled a schwinn kickstand, if this bike is an early model for the Usa then raleigh just put on what was lying around?
I couldn't figure how to get mine out so it's just gonna be masked off.
Getting this bike painted at a reasonable time from my local painter was like tryna win a war with just 2 men and a loud obnoxious chicken. Anyway I like the paint color, not too much the paint job. thought the camero gold would've been a little lighter but it still looks cool. Very flashy color in sunlight. Next is to get the decals, seat cover, and rechrome some parts.
Oh thats Shelby my cat in the background, named her after the Sheby Gt 500.
I got all the parts i wanted. Some not shown. The rear wheel came already re-chromed from the Uk.
My donor bike is a 70's Raleigh sport where I'll be taking the caliper's and breaks from. I think i might be able to use the bearings also because the chopper has some wrong ones.
My insperation. A 71 camero z28.
Also have you guy's ever seen a chopper that didn't have the cotter pin like this? And in the other end of the kick-stand instead? Someone told me my kickstand resembled a schwinn kickstand, if this bike is an early model for the Usa then raleigh just put on what was lying around?
Getting this bike painted at a reasonable time from my local painter was like tryna win a war with just 2 men and a loud obnoxious chicken. Anyway I like the paint color, not too much the paint job. thought the camero gold would've been a little lighter but it still looks cool. Very flashy color in sunlight. Next is to get the decals, seat cover, and rechrome some parts.
So the 71's came whith schwinn like kickstands?
