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Old 12-12-09, 11:55 AM   #11
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Default Re: Anyone seen this on our roads????

Clarkson did a piece about it on an old show, Motorworld I think.

Also Evo (a carrist rag) have done a piece on it this month.
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Old 12-12-09, 12:05 PM   #12
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it must be a pain to park
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Old 12-12-09, 12:07 PM   #13
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Default Re: Anyone seen this on our roads????

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It's an EcoMobile. Think it had a BMW K100 drive train. Anyway, Clarkson can tell you all about it - linky.
Bikes have too short a wheelbase? Yewhat?
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Old 12-12-09, 12:09 PM   #14
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There was a red one around here for a few dys early summer.
Oh and Lucas - has anyone tild you your avatar looks just lika a **** at one point in its sequence?
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Old 12-12-09, 02:04 PM   #15
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too much fairing for my liking
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Old 12-12-09, 02:11 PM   #16
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Looks awful from the front. Don't think i'd want to filter on one either. An old video tho - JC looked, well sort of... young.

Being enclosed in a cabin on 2 wheels just sounds like a nightmare. I think you'd be too disconnected from the outside to accurately judge things like cornering traction in the wet.
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Old 12-12-09, 10:02 PM   #17
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Looks like a later version of a swiss bike made a few years ago,great for swiss m/ways but good on corners as well.easy to flick up if you dropped it.think the makers wife was in it on the road test i saw.
A special one was being designed a few years ago 200 in 20 secs an top 450 k,dunno if it got built.
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Old 13-12-09, 02:52 AM   #18
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Blimey , reminds me of those dodgy Quasar things I saw knocking about in the 80`s
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Old 13-12-09, 08:12 AM   #19
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i saw one of these going up the m1 on friday near mk, i was going south but it still caught my eye from the other side!! looks precarious
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Old 13-12-09, 08:13 AM   #20
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IIRC they used 2 of them as police bikes in a film in 1991, so an at least 19 year old design.
oh the film was, Until the end of the world. (great sound track) BTW.
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