I know its been said before, but the ridicule attached to the c5 is almost
completely the fault of the bankers. (substitute a w if you like) who made
him launch it in the middle of winter. It would have been better to launch
it in summer as a recreational vehicle, but it was tends to be the case with
Clive creations, late being actually made and then launched at Ally Pally in
the middle of a blizzard, which caused snow drifts. It was white and so is
snow. It only drove 1 wheel and it got bogged down of course..

I know I was there. Sad, very sad. A few years later while in Guernsey, I
was shown a huge field full of them, all unsold.

Someone had bought them cheap and was trying to sell them to the tourist
industry over there.

Brian

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"Duncan Snowden" wrote in message
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>I found this while nosing around the old electric interweb the other night:
> http://www.microcarmuseum.com/tour/sinclair-c5.html
>
> Nothing we didn't know already (I love that "eccentric genius" bit,
> though) but it's always nice to see one. Looks like it's in pretty good
> nick, too.
>
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>

Another case of Clive being ahead of his time I guess. I think history
will look favourably on the C5 concept in the long run.

Well a concept yes, but there was nothing that innovative in it. I was a
simple electric motor and battery powered vehicle for 1 with pedal backup.
It seemed rather flimsy to me and tended to rock from side to side if
pedalled. I wonder how hardy they were as far as breaking?I mean, in a
couple of winters would the plastic bitsgo brittle?

One of the main problems was perceived vulnerability if used on roads with a
lot of traffic. You were very low down, a bit like on those recumbent cycles
and thus not expected, as it were.
You almost needed a long pole with a light on it to be seen from many larger
vehicles if you were alongside!

Brian

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"OwenBot" wrote in message
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> Another case of Clive being ahead of his time I guess. I think history
> will look favourably on the C5 concept in the long run.

"Duncan Snowden" wrote in message
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> Nothing we didn't know already (I love that "eccentric genius" bit,
> though) but it's always nice to see one.

It's at this point that I'm contractually obliged to point out the one that
sits in a museum in Edinburgh, despite it having been mentioned countless
times on CSS before. Well, at least four.[1]

Len
[1] Perhaps most importantly in the context of a life-changing experience I
had, detailed in the wonderfully titled thread "The ZX80, a flying C5 and my
magical arse" which I just found when I researched the matter on Google.
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