Another Clive Sinclair Classic?

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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    You've got to hand it to the guy - he just doesn't give up.

    Have a look at the A-Bike too...he must have got a job load of supermarket trolley wheels on the cheap...

    http://www.sinclairzx.com/a-bike.html
    Looking for a cycling buddy?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    How can an inventor be so crap ?
  • Airwave
    Airwave Posts: 483
    Another classic.Looks like it would be very stable in a strong wind&not at all dangerous :lol:
    TT photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/steverob/
  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    And as for a...
    longtime relationship with (and recent marriage to) a former lapdancer 36 years his junior
    What was he thinking! :wink:
  • Zombie_donkey
    Zombie_donkey Posts: 359
    I hope it takes off.

    Yoofs will be too busy taking the pi$$ out of people on them and will leave cyclists alone.
    Giant Escape M1....
    Penny Farthing
    Unicycle
    The bike the Goodies rode
    Pogo Stick
    Donkey on Roller skates.......OK I'm lying, but I am down to one bike right now and I feel bad about it,
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    I used to work in a garage in the early 90s and the owner had a c5. He used to charge the batteries up once every 6 months or so & let anyone in the firm take it out on the roads. I used it once to go to the bank. I was worried about getting run over while going down the main road, needn't have worried at all as everyone saw me & pointed & laughed :oops: Got to the bank, picked up the front end & walked into the bank dragging it behind me, which made everyone in the bank point and laugh at me all over again.

    Could get a fair lick going running the batteries and peddling too.
  • Weejie54
    Weejie54 Posts: 750
    How can an inventor be so crap ?

    I remember buying one of his matchbox size radio kits through Practical Wireless back in the 60s. It was pretty good in its day - I also bought a 100 watt amplifier about the same time. Ran for years. The ZX Spectrum was pretty popular at one time.
    It seems that he has just been playing around since then.
  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    It looks f*cking dangerous to me !!
    Science adjusts it’s beliefs based on what’s observed.
    Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved
  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    He seems to have done ok for himself !!!
    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/26/article-1195788-05804D4A000005DC-790_468x761.jpg
    Science adjusts it’s beliefs based on what’s observed.
    Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved
  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    A C5 with a roof...
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    dmclite wrote:
    How can an inventor be so crap ?

    The Spectrum was great - unfortunately my parents bought me a ZX81 instead :cry:
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    Pross wrote:
    dmclite wrote:
    How can an inventor be so crap ?

    The Spectrum was great - unfortunately my parents bought me a ZX81 instead :cry:

    I had the 48K rubber keyed jobby, I must have played games on that for hours and hours as a kid. I am probably working with computers now for a living just because of it.
  • shm_uk
    shm_uk Posts: 683
    The X1 is a ridiculous looking thing.
    Basically just a recumbant with a roof, so not really a totally new invention.

    Amongst other things, how on earth do you see what's behind you?
    No mirrors, and if you leaned over to peer round the roof thingy you'd just crash.
  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    There's probably a video camera accessory, yours for £109.99...
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    northernneil wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    dmclite wrote:
    How can an inventor be so crap ?

    The Spectrum was great - unfortunately my parents bought me a ZX81 instead :cry:

    I had the 48K rubber keyed jobby, I must have played games on that for hours and hours as a kid. I am probably working with computers now for a living just because of it.

    www.worldofspectrum.org/archive.html

    Its blocked at my work but if its the right link you can relive your childhood without waiting for tapes to load 8) Only bad thing is Activisions and Ultimates games arent there as they still exist and enforced some copyright bo11ox :(
  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    The Daily Mash bang on the button, as ever.
  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    Remeber the electric motor that bolted onto the back of a bike and relied on the ridiculous weight of the thing to make contact (ie rub) on the top of the tyre to provide motive power? That was a death trap, I phoned head office and refused to sell the things after the first one we sold fell into the back wheel while the rider was on a main road. The man is a lucky fool who got his knighthood in the sham that was Thatchers Enterprise Decade. Have a look for Sinclair and the Sunrise Technologies by Ian Adamson and Richard Kennedy (Penguin) which takes the PR guff apart.

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