The Micro Car thread

[Profpointy]

Something like this maybe ?

 

[marshmella]

Not being funny @Drago but i was reading one of your earlier threads about height and you being 6 feet 4 (and i'm guessing 20+ stone?) How the hell were you gonna fit in a Twizzy anyway?

 

[Drago]

Not being funny @Drago but i was reading one of your earlier threads about height and you being 6 feet 4 (and i'm guessing 20+ stone?) How the hell were you gonna fit in a Twizzy anyway?

Very well, as it happened, although it looked like I was wearing it (a fraction under 6'4", and a touch over 18 )

 

[Smokin Joe]

[QUOTE 5327319, member: 45"]

So this thread is obsolete. No-one who thinks of a micro-car should get one, when they can get a decent scooter or motorbike instead.[/QUOTE]
I've been a biker. Very enjoyable, but the heater don't work and the roof leaks.

 

[Profpointy]

I've been a biker. Very enjoyable, but the heater don't work and the roof leaks.

There's no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes.

That said heated grips are good as are Rukka's £200 winter gloves - and even both together a snowy ride back from Plymouth 10 minutes before the m5 was shut was a bit grim

 

[Profpointy]

At the risk of thread derailment by being serious for a moment, a proper mini was quite a small car, yet could carry 4 adult blokes in adequate comfort. We even carried 4 of us with all our caving & camping gear on an epic trip to Ireland in one, albeit less than adequate comfort. These days cars are huge, and a transit van is equivalent to a mid sized car

 

[raleighnut]

There's no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes.

That said heated grips are good as are Rukka's £200 winter gloves - and even both together a snowy ride back from Plymouth 10 minutes before the m5 was shut was a bit grim

I once rode 11 miles in a blizzard with an open face helmet and goggles, shame some nerk in the pub had nicked my scarf.

 

[Profpointy]

[QUOTE 5327405, member: 45"]We once got 7 in a mini.[/QUOTE]

Two minis owned by students collided. None of the 23 passengers were hurt

 

[MarkF]

Not being funny @Drago but i was reading one of your earlier threads about height and you being 6 feet 4 (and i'm guessing 20+ stone?) How the hell were you gonna fit in a Twizzy anyway?

The editor of the Bradford City fanzine (The City Gent), Mike "Tall" Gent is 6'8" and he drives one. He used to deliver the mag to my house and all the kids used to watch him get back in and drive off, was like a magic trick.

Too small..............the Fiat 500 I bought for my mother is as small as I'd want to go, I love driving that car.

 

[Salty seadog]

I just wanted to post in this thread that as it's not cycle related I will not be posting in......

....bugger.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Nice, looks very like the Isetta/BMW, now if they made an electric version of this I'd be interested


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There's one of those near where I used to live. Used on Granada reports by Fred the weatherman before he fell from grace. The owner let me sit in it, it has a seat which cantilevers upwards then you go down into the cockpit (it really feels like a fighter seat). Handlebars for steering, a two stroke motor which could be made to run backwards for reverse (I think that's what he said, or was it electric for reverse?). Anyway what a hoot it must be to drive dagga, dagga, dagga when someone cuts you up!

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Found a photo!

 

[Drago]

Battery pack up front, motor and more batteries in the rear...that'd make a sweet conversion.

 

[Salty seadog]

My mates Lomax .

 

[Profpointy]

Marginally more sensibly I would quite like one of these