Odd, also, that they omitted any mention of Tommy Godwin's record breaking rides in the 1930's, sponsored by Raleigh. Or was that mentioned after I stopped watching (i got as far as some guy touring Austria on a derailleur/IGH hybrid).

Thanks for the link. I really enjoyed it and was pleased to hear that the Chopper I have was called "iconic."

The chopper is their most famous bike after all. The model they reintroduced in 2004 is crap though, frame is much worse.

That's a different one again.


I looked at my poor attempts at phonetic spelling and realised that I hadn't quite got it right in my last post.


For some reason, I was taught two different pronunciations between the man and the bicycle company which borrowed his name and used his image in a lot of their marketing:


Sir Walter was Rah-lee ('Ra' - like the Egyptian Sun god).


And pretty much everyone I know has called the bicycle company was Ra-lee ('Ra' - as in 'Rat').


When I first read the comments about the lady narrator in the film, I wondered what she was saying. It seems that she was using the slightly posher 'Home Service' way of saying of the bicycle name, but it's a tiny and subtle difference.