Topic: Just found this...

[minimin]

Taken from http://www.mrsharkey.com/forum/vwtp.php?p=2636&sid=8299ff6d0f9c490e84c6353330ff5b42

First you have to check out what a Sinclair C5 is... they are famous (or infamous) in the UK but you might never have heard of them. This Wiki page explains all...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

Now I've never seen one actually driving around - they were pretty rare even in their day (being a total commercial failure) but at the local supermarket yesterday I was just waiting at the ATM when about five or six of these things came rolling along and started gathering a curious crowd of on-lookers.

I'm sure that lots of people thought they were brand new electric cars with all the talk in the media about such things but were amazed to discover that they were the brain-child of the slightly business-sense-challenged inventor, Sir Clive Sinclair (knighted for services to mad invention).

I doubt also that these things were on a London to Brighton rally as it's 50 miles or more and these things never had that long a range. I secretly thought they were trying to sneak some power from the supermarket to keep them going in the cold weather (it was sub-zero all day yesterday).

They set off out of the car park and presumably were run over by some big 4x4s that couldn't see them so low down on the road. One pilot thoughtfully had added a tall whip rod to the back of his C5 with a Union Jack flag at the top. This served three purposes:

1. It meant other road users would be able to see him and not kill him.
2. He could "fly the flag" for British inventiveness.
3. He could attract wonder at how a dodgem car can work without the overhead power netting.

[Retro Andy]

I wonder who they are ?

Reto Andy

[Karl]

It has to be someone local to me as he is based in West Sussex. Looks like he is describing "moneypit" with the flag, plus the cold weather suggests he is referring to the Greenzone run in January - a very cold day.

http://c5alive.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=289.0

Not the most accurate or informative comments I've ever read  , the guy comes across as a bit of a loser - which is a shame as the site is quite cool

I've sent him this email;

You should have come up and said hello when you saw us out and about on our January C5 meeting.
If you want to correct the inaccuracies in your posting just check out my own forum at www.c5alive.co.uk

....for example the seven C5's that completed the London-Brighton run in May 2007 were supported by a van carrying 64 car batteries.

A real shame you seem to have avoided forming your own opinion about Sinclair C5's, preferring to jump on the tired old bandwagon of slagging them off.
Should you want to try one out yourself and see how much fun they are  ,just give me a call and we can sort something out.