Wheelie bike of non-bicycle manufacturers that developed and sold add-on products, such as the Wham-O wheelie bar. Though initially a US fad, wheelie bikes also became popular in the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. Australia had its own Malvern Star Dragster, ,Brazil had its own Monark Tigrão., and in Norway, Øglænd made the DBS Tomahawk. The former The Shaggs singer Dot Wiggin recorded the song "Banana Bike" in 2013 as a tribute to her sister Helen, who died in 2006. Helen owned a yellow imported Raleigh Chopper that she used to keep fit with, that Dot found amusing that a
CCM (bicycle company) in the Town of Toronto Junction (as the town was then officially called). "Massey-Harris and Gendron Bicycles also moved some bike manufacturing to The Junction in the HA Lozier factory." Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver, were originally part of a diversified network of C.C.M. manufacturing processes. By 1917, C.C.M.'s bicycle manufacturing operations had moved into a larger factory on Lawrence Avenue West east of what is now called Weston Road in Weston, Ontario where manufacturing continued until 1980. From 1939-1945 during the Second World War C.C.M.'s cycle's manufacturing facilities were taken over by the Canadian government and declared an essential war