...The Rampar with the red gas tank, shocks and number plate was my first BMX bike. Loved it...lost it somehow.
I'm not in a position right now to purchase one but would love to in the future(when play funds are available). So please show me yours...or at least put a hands up if you have one.
Thanks for bringing back one of my earliest memories, Chris

fonzi rampar? really? didn't know they existed.
mike

friend had that bike. don't recall it being called a fonzi model. it was heavy but indestructible.
there was a nice complete on ebay about 2yrs ago. seems like it didn't go for much. maybe 150?

Sorry guys not Fonzi literally...just looked like a Fonzi knida motorcycle half-breed. Bridge-city, I remember when that was on the Bay and missed the last minute.
Please...other responses?
Chris

my buddy that had that bike when we were kids was staying with us for awhile during that time. He was just dying while watching that auction. He wanted to bid on it sooooo bad. wonder if someone from here won it? Didn't it come out of California?

There was also a cool red white blue evil knievel stunt/MX bike out just before that time. Never have seen another like it since then. It'd be a classic nowadays. Much like a Prothunder with the flat plastic mudflap style fenders. that would have been what? 76-78?

Here's a story about that rampar motorcycle bike. there was this flat 4 1/2 to 5ft cement shelf outside our school. We all sat and debated what it'd be like to ride off of it. One day he decided it was time. He was the first to brave riding off of it. that bike took it nose first without any damage. he was king for a day.

i have the tank and # plate but no bike.

You guys are right, this bike took a beating! My neighbor once rode the bike as fast as he could and launched it...no lie at least 30 feet in the air. To set this up...we lived next to the elementary school...school had a fresh delivery of clay(8 foot mound)...at the base of a monstrous down-hill!!! Picked it up and rode it away without a problem.
My parents really stepped up to buy this bike as it was very expensive(for them at the time).
While back I told you guys about the time I was hit with a cantelope (fruit drive-by). This bike was the one I was on during this incident.
Someday I'd like to have it back.
Chris

Now that bike is just bad ***

R8 model I beleive.... Built many of them as Freshman in HS for a local shop in 1977. Tank always made noises.

R5. the above pic is from the '76 or '77 raleigh catalog.

I had that bike BITD. I remember buying at Sears. Hopefully I can find a pic and post it.

Playing cards in the spokes fo' sure! I remember seeing one or two of those back than.

Talking with my Mother whom remembered the bike very well. We could not remember what seemed to have happened to the Rampar. Parents divorced when I was 12...moved to another town 20 minutes away.
Next step was to call my old neighbors to see if they remember anything. The oldest of the 3 brothers remembered it well and said after we moved they found it in a pile with a bunch of other stuff at the curb. He says to call the next brother who still lives in the house..again remembered the bike to inform me of its demise. Seems that it lived the rest of its years at the bottom of their pool only to be unearthed when they decided to have a pool company restore their in-ground pool. He definately caught a glimpse of it lying in a heap...only to finally go to the dumpster.
So my exact original is out of the question. Hopefully someday I find another...and the time is right with funding said project.
Chris