I've got vague memories of these from the A.R. Adams Cycle days - the East Side store (the original store) had, at most, 2 or 3 of these in inventory. I assume we're talking a bicycle that is a copy of the Schwinn Sting Ray, middleweight 20" curved frame, ape hanger bars, long saddle. They were definitely an anomaly at the shop, as the Chopper was already out and available for sale. I cannot remember whether these bikes were badged as Triumphs or Raleighs, although badging them as Raleighs wouldn't have made a lick of sense since Raleigh was fully committed to the Chopper.

This Trumph (as I'll assume that how we sold them) was a fair bit cheaper than the Chopper, and didn't have a lot of interest. In fact, my best memory of the bike was dealing with a mother and her absolute spoiled brat 12 year old. Mom brought the daughter into the shop and while looking at bikes the daughter went into a screaming rant about what she didn't want: Pointedly the Sting Ray and the three speed Sports style bicycles. If it didn't have drop handlebars it wasn't acceptable, and the brat wasn't about to have one of those other bikes shoved on her. Meanwhile, mom's looking at ten speeds with a, "Do people actually ride those things?" look on her face, and quietly freaking out at the $100.00 and up price.

The brat ended up with nothing that day.

This is another one of those "why did they make them?" bicycles of the period, along with the Triumph 10-speeds. I never really understood Triumph's (and Dunelt's) position in the Raleigh hierarchy. When you're talking single speed and 3-speed roadsters, they made sense. They were a cheaper bike in the Raleigh lineup. But to bring out this Sting Ray when the Chopper had taken off, and made Raleigh the only company to go up against Schwinn with something that wasn't a copy, and then bring out a 10-speed when they couldn't make enough Records which sold for a higher price never made any sense to me.