Raleigh Vektar

The Raleigh Vektar was a 1985 children's bicycle built on a Burner BMX frame and fork and fitted with five-spoke mag-style wheels, polyurethane mudguards and angular trim. The loaded version, marketed as the World's First Computer Bike, carried a large console on the upper frame with a computer for speed, distance and time, a radio with three preset channels and a sound synthesiser with eight preset sounds. Raleigh spent more than 500,000 pounds developing it and presented it as the successor to the Chopper. At roughly 200 pounds for the base model and nearly 300 with the console it was expensive, and production ended around 1987, with estimates of only 50,000 to 100,000 made. It was never sold in the United States.