1970 Wild Cycle - ワイルドサイ クル [import, 1970] by Allied Leisure & オリエンタル興業 (Oriental Kogyo)

Name: Wild Cycle - ワイルドサイ クル
Year: 1970, imported [?] 1970
Company: Allied Leisure & オリエンタル興業 (Oriental Kogyo)

Wild Cycle was released by Allied Leisure (USA) in 1970.  By the end of the year, it appeared in Japan as a machine being sold by Oriental Kogyo

AJAP 1970-11

Oriental Kogyo flyer shared by nazox2016

Luckily for us, pindude152 purchased a NIB Wild Cycle by Allied Leisure and we can see it first coming out of the box.  The whole series of posts, or go to the first unboxing post.

image from pindude152

Notice anything different?  Well yes, a whole lot is different here, actually!  The Japanese version is VERY different, almost to the point where I suspect whether the Oriental Kogyo machine was simply INSPIRED by the Allied Leisure machine.

But note: this Japanese version came out the SAME YEAR of the Allied Leisure one.  That's a pretty fast turnaround time to steal an idea or even import and modify a machine.

From the pinrepair page (archive) on Wild Cycle, the side of the cab is blue, and an entirely different shape

The handle bars are entirely different.

The Japanese one also has those odd white squares at the bottom of the window?

The Allied Leisure one (top) cabinet art, and then the Japanese one is an obviously repainted copy.

And then the marquee art?  On the Allied Leisure copy we have motorcycles that look like they are accelerating off a jump, but the Oriental Kogyo one looks like it's a parade of bikers all "popping a wheelie" simultaneously.

The Allied Leisure version also has that window in the upper right.

Can we safely assume that the Oriental Kogyo one is based on the Allied Leisure one, but not an import?  It is hard to say without further information.  I am going to leave this listed as an "import" for the time being.