http://www.maxmatic.com/shrike.htm
[Edited on 30-1-05 by mangogrooveworkshop]
http://pages.zoom.co.uk/elvis/shrike.html
http://www.maxmatic.com/shrike.htm
[Edited on 30-1-05 by mangogrooveworkshop]
O my dear god - has he never heard of design? 
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Originally posted by Hellfire
O my dear god - has he never heard of design?
you can see where he's coming from though, simple lines makes it easy to triangulate. 
That guy has driven his trike long before uncle Ron wrote the book
There's no wonder why scaffolding is so expensive!!! That guy is obviously using it!
can you imagine the length of the list he would get for that after its first sva
Is Shrike short for Shite and Crikey? 
You can see where he got his inspiration from though.
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I don't know. It looks not too bad from some quarters; pretty Sevenesque
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The Style Council have issued a fatwa on the designer!
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Originally posted by Rorty
The Style Council have issued a fatwa on the designer!
Bringing this back from the dead.
I know the designer and yes he's an engineer, not an artist! To be fair, the design is pure function; in the case of an accident, it will dive
under the car ahead, and is strong enough to support it.
And finely, regardless what we think, he's driving something he designed and build 20 years ago. How many of us can say the same?
No I wouldn't build something looking quite like it, but I respect the fact he designed it, built it, and is driving it. That's more then
I've accomplished.
As I keep being drawn back to the idea of a 3-wheeler, he's offered to let me drive it. That'll be pretty interesting me thinks.
[Edited on 9/10/05 by kb58]
I met the Shrike designer/builder last spring at a kit car show in California. Great guy, and you know what, it's prototypical 70's styling.
But I tell you what, the guy paid attention to detail and you can really tell when you look at it in person.
Super-lightweight too. The epitome of lowcost.
Cat amongst the pigeons but i rather like that.....because it dares to be different
I just love the sharp corners of the "roll" bar. Just imagine how that thing would flick around if one of those corners ever made contact
with the ground. It could make a simple roll over into a horror ride akin to being inside a high-speed cement mixer.
I've seen dozens of roll overs and there's none as spectacular as one where something solid on the vehicle digs into the ground.
One of those corners gouging into the tarmac at 60mph or more could be the end of the occupant.
Rather be in that upside down than a 7 with a bolted on roll bar.
Asuming the Se7en's roll bar was properly attached with the correct fasteners (whose isn't?), then I would prefer to be upside down in the Se7en as the "corners" of the roll bars are normally radiused.
Must admit I quite like when it is clothed!
Not all angles look right, but overall it is neat!
It reminds me of the Stealth Fighter/bomber.
Paint it in flat black or airforce green with a gloss black chassis and it would be ultra cool!
Terry
He's driving it around in dayli use for the last 20 years and the corners of that roll bar are looking quite undamaged to me,must be a pretty
damn good car then hé
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Originally posted by Cita
He's driving it around in dayli use for the last 20 years and the corners of that roll bar are looking quite undamaged to me,must be a pretty damn good car then hé
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Originally posted by Cita
He's driving it around in dayli use for the last 20 years and the corners of that roll bar are looking quite undamaged to me,must be a pretty damn good car then hé