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JAG - 2/1/13 at 04:53 PM

Spotted this in Stratford Upon Avon town centre on New Years Day around 18:30 - gizza go mister

MonoTracer

MonoTracer

MonoTracer

Registered in Birmingham according to those plates and one of only four hundred in the world.

[Edited on 2/1/13 by JAG]

CNHSS1 - 2/1/13 at 04:54 PM

wasnt it on Top Gear many moons ago? made somewhere like Austria or Switzerland?

loggyboy - 2/1/13 at 05:06 PM

Is a Mono Tracer
Yes Its Swiss.
http://www.webroad.ch/monotracer/

[Edited on 2-1-13 by loggyboy]

Slimy38 - 2/1/13 at 05:07 PM

Yeah, I seem to remember Mr Cock and Richard Hammond both squeezing into it, with an intimacy I don't even share with my wife!

Daddylonglegs - 2/1/13 at 07:32 PM

Yep, saw it on TG a long time ago. Looks like it could be fun, the outriggers raise above a certain speed IIRC so it's jsut like a bike.

swanny - 2/1/13 at 07:47 PM

Reminds me of this.... Link

Furyous - 2/1/13 at 08:16 PM

Wasn't the Top Gear one a Carver?

ceebmoj - 2/1/13 at 08:29 PM

It was the Ecomobile on top-gear many years ago.

I have all ways wanted one.

ChrisW - 2/1/13 at 10:17 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Furyous
Wasn't the Top Gear one a Carver?

The Carver is different. It has three wheels if I remember correctly and only the front part leans into the corners.

Chris

A1 - 2/1/13 at 10:32 PM

i just dont get it... why not have a bike... or a car. It makes a poor bike and a poorer car. In my opinion

spiderman - 2/1/13 at 11:30 PM

Funny that it should be parked outside "Poundland"

Furyous - 2/1/13 at 11:31 PM

Top Gear Carver

spiderman - 3/1/13 at 03:34 AM

The Carver is now available as a flying car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CajAq6ndJYE

Grimsdale - 3/1/13 at 08:34 AM

someone's taken the middle out of an audi!

coozer - 3/1/13 at 06:05 PM

Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole never mind gizza a go mister!

BillieBongo - 25/3/13 at 04:19 AM

quote:
Originally posted by JAG
Spotted this in Stratford Upon Avon town centre on New Years Day around 18:30 - gizza go mister

Drop me a PM

MonoTracer

MonoTracer

MonoTracer

Registered in Birmingham according to those plates and one of only four hundred in the world.

[Edited on 2/1/13 by JAG]

BillieBongo - 25/3/13 at 04:32 AM

quote:
Originally posted by A1
i just dont get it... why not have a bike... or a car.

Or why not have bikes and cars as well.

quote:
Originally posted by A1
iIt makes a poor bike and a poorer car. In my opinion

I do find it strange that people are able to judge a vehicle without any experience of it.
I had no idea what they were like until I drove one. They're much more difficult to drive than a bike or a car
which I find makes driving one much more interesting. I don't want it to be a bike or a car - If I want to drive a
bike - I drive one, if I want to go by car - I go by car.

whitestu - 25/3/13 at 08:07 AM

quote:

quote:
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Originally posted by A1
i just dont get it... why not have a bike... or a car.
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Or why not have bikes and cars as well.

quote:
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Originally posted by A1
iIt makes a poor bike and a poorer car. In my opinion
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I do find it strange that people are able to judge a vehicle without any experience of it.
I had no idea what they were like until I drove one. They're much more difficult to drive than a bike or a car
which I find makes driving one much more interesting. I don't want it to be a bike or a car - If I want to drive a
bike - I drive one, if I want to go by car - I go by car.

Looks like fantastic fun to me, and certainly a bit different!

Stu

scootz - 25/3/13 at 09:15 AM

quote:
Originally posted by whitestu

Looks like fantastic fun to me, and certainly a bit different!

Stu

rdodger - 25/3/13 at 09:38 AM

I had a ride in one of those around Zolder. I was sick.... very sick! The way they lean into the corner with your face inches from the tarmac is quite wierd. Great fun up to a point!

BillieBongo - 27/3/13 at 02:59 PM

quote:
Originally posted by rdodger
I had a ride in one of those around Zolder. I was sick.... very sick! The way they lean into the corner with your face inches from the tarmac is quite wierd. Great fun up to a point!

That's interesting, because on the back of a bike I'm absolutely petrified if someone is going really fast so I've not done it for a long long time. When I was really young I used to go on the back of some real nutters - coming up to a corner I'm thinking for God's sake put the brakes on or we're going to die - then they pop a wheelie - somehow we almost always made it made me petrified of going on the back of bikes. When the motorcycle journalist Paul Blezard treated me to a few high speed laps of the Bruno circuit - with my face inches from the tarmac as you mention - I was only slightly nervous which was a real surprise for me.

Who took you round the Zolder track?

rdodger - 27/3/13 at 03:35 PM

It doesn't help that as the passenger you are higher than the driver.

I forget the guys name, I think he was Swiss.

A group of us go to Zolder each year for the VAB-Autohappening and give passenger rides out on track for 2 days.

I remember the year I was a passenger was the same year we made him some rear brake pads from bits of old pallet after they wore out. The intention was just to get him home but after a couple of stops the charcoal seemed to work quite well as long as his wife squirted a bit of water on them each time he came in the pits! He got through an afternoon of trackwork on 3 sets of pallet wood pads!

r1_pete - 27/3/13 at 05:28 PM

Remeniscent of the Quasar from the 70's, wonder if it will be any more successful?

quasar