Add a couple more cards, and your bike ... the first “chopper”-style bicycles in 1963, and a few years later, Sears and Schwinn joined the fray with their respective Spyder and StingRay ...

"The new Stingray is a bike that offers something for everyone ... Mather doesn’t see the Raleigh Chopper as a threat: "Although the Raleigh Chopper has been well received it has failed to capture the ...

the first bicycle to bear the name ‘Chopper’." This street-design was picked up by Al Fritz, concept designer for Schwinn, the Raleigh of the USA. He created the Stingray, released in June 1963. Five ...

With its banana seat and slick back tire, the Schwinn Sting-Ray was the bike to have in the ’60s and ’70s. Now, 30 years later, it's back in style. "They're cool because not everybody has them ...

Well, it's the same legal trickery that allowed the Schwinn Bicycle Company to build the Sting-Ray Fastback without inciting Chevy's wrath. At the height of the C2/C3 Corvette Stingray's cultural ...

A personal trainer who has cycled 900 miles (1,450km) from Hull Marina to the highest ski resort in Europe has described completing the challenge on a Raleigh Chopper bicycle as "unreal".

Now original designs for the Raleigh Chopper have come to light 45 years ... He saw teenagers in California customising push bikes to look like dragster motorcycles used by the Hell's Angels ...

But within three months, he succeeded in creating Proton Stingray, a prototype chopper-bike which runs on a car engine.