Wheelie bike speedometers, windshields, hand grip streamers, headlights, taller sissy bars, axle spinners, and back rests such as shown on this bicycle: The Raleigh Chopper was the best selling children's bicycle in the UK. The wheelie bike fad drove bicycle sales to over 4 million units in the US, and accounted for 75% of total US bicycle sales in 1968, but it also helped contribute to the impression in the US that bicycles are merely children's toys. Dangerous features, such as shifters mounted on the top tube, were banned in the US in 1974. The wheelie bike fad even attracted the attention
Dixie Chopper in 2004. The Bike featured a modified 1000cc Dixie Chopper lawn mower engine rated at , which after some modifications produced a surprising amount of power despite not being a normal bike engine. Dixie Chopper Dixie Chopper is a brand of industrial zero-turning lawn mower manufactured in Fillmore, Indiana. It was founded by Hoosier Art Evans in 1980. In February 2014 Dixie Chopper was purchased by Jacobsen/Textron. Dixie Chopper claims to build the world's fastest lawn mowers. The most famous version is a prototype that was built using the jet engine from a Chinook Helicopter. This model was featured on