Raleigh Tomahawk

The Raleigh Tomahawk was a smaller version of the Raleigh Chopper made for children in roughly the six to nine age group. One history of the Chopper family dates its arrival to 1971 in one place and to 1972 in another, and says it stayed in the range until about 1981. It had an 11 inch front wheel and a 16 inch rear wheel and the same high-rise handlebars and padded saddle as the Chopper, but no Sturmey-Archer three-speed hub: a plastic plate resembling the Chopper's gear lever plate sat where the lever would have been. It suited inside legs of 21 to 25 inches and was sold in Infra Red or Fuschia, and by 1981 only in Hot Red with the cut-down saddle of Formula 3, the deluxe version Raleigh added around 1976.