I like to give you all an extra reason to come to the Holland meeting in July and therefore I have to give you all a little history lesson.(from hear say)
Sinclair introduced the C5 in the Netherlands in 1985. The RDW, the organization in Holland that tests and gives or denies new vehicles the road-legal status, didn't know what to do with the Sinclair,
(no E-Bikes in those days) so all of the original imported C5's where treated by the customs as bikes. They just cut al the engine wires
and allowed it on the road as Bikes. After the Sinclair factory stopped producing them, as well as the Sinclair ZX, a dutch business man bought the hole stock of Sinclair.
After deliverance of all the stuff he expected to have his warehouse full of computers.
There where 400 boxes as well that, after opening, to his suprice, had Sinclairs C5's in them, instead of computers. He was supplying computer-stores so he sold some but gave the major lot of them away to computer-stores as Eye-catchers. So in Holland you can find a lot off C5's that never have been driven, stored away, not very interesting items for the people here. As a bike it was a lot of heavy pedaling. So nobody was very interested.
Now the law has changed and since a few years there is an official E-Bike legislation.
The C5 is road legal now. I am going to try to go on television to invite all those people that still have, never used Sinclairs in store houses or on attics, to sell them on our meeting or put them in the auction. Don't know or I can make it happen but sure I'm going to try. So if I can pull this off, I expect a lot off, unused parts and completely new C5's during our meeting. I did collect quite some parts already but still looking for a lot more.
So for all of you that are looking for those missing, hard to find parts, or are interested in obtaining a original C5 this event might be very interesting as well.
Uptil now, nice looking, hardly or never used Sinclairs are going for between 150 euro and 600 euro. Depending on extra's etc. (125 GBP and 500 GBP) Times are changing and it is getting more popular by the day.
So it is now or never.
Hope to see a lot of you all in July.
greetz
Frank