Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

The scooters with twin front wheels can be locked in the upright position for parking obviating the need for a center stand. Unlike the CanAm and other carlike trikes they act like real motorcycles on the road too. My question is, are they available with actual gearboxes? A CVT in anything with more than 125cc is a dealbreaker for me, the same goes for any four wheeled vehicle: no CVT!
 
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Alzero said:
The scooters with twin front wheels can be locked in the upright position for parking obviating the need for a center stand. Unlike the CanAm and other carlike trikes they act like real motorcycles on the road too. My question is, are they available with actual gearboxes? A CVT in anything with more than 125cc is a dealbreaker for me, the same goes for any four wheeled vehicle: no CVT!
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Just need enough power and you'll forget the automatic/CVT in an instant.

Rode a Yamaha 500 T-max some years ago, was mighty impressed! Completely different animal to smaller automatics, acceleration was very similar to an EV. I remember an ILOC ride out with someone on a Suzuki 450 Burgman tagging along. To everybodies' surprise, he kept up easily.

Reckon more modern scooters to be even better. A ballsy rider on one of those 3-wheel scooters with 250cc+ is hard to keep up with on a tight mountain road. I've not yet ridden one, but those twin front wheels seem to track very well.

piet
 
A lot of the TV stuff on the Tour Da France looks to be done by them. Years ago at the old Liverpool Italian Bike show they were selling them, I forget the brand but it had 2 front tyres close together and 1 rear. Maybe I forget his name but one of the NSW club founding members was selling them. From what I heard incredibly stable, very hard to crash them. He was doing very tight U-turns on the grass, pretty impressive to see it maneuver.
 
when ILOC dfid moped Mayhem we had a C50 Honda that was a proper automatic, as in torque converter and three speed auto box like a Borg Warner,it was great for locking the rear wheel (by braking) into slow corners, because the bike then thought it had stopped, and so on exiting you had first gear and away!! two favourite passing places for me at the circuit laid out in Peterborough showground for the "races", locked rear wheel into the corner taking a place or two, sliding on oposite lock (at speeds aproaching 100MPH) and then full chat, bottom cog out of the cornerI think we won something? anybody remember?
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when ILOC dfid moped Mayhem we had a C50 Honda that was a proper automatic, as in torque converter and three speed auto box like a Borg Warner,it was great for locking the rear wheel (by braking) into slow corners, because the bike then thought it had stopped, and so on exiting you had first gear and away!! two favourite passing places for me at the circuit laid out in Peterborough showground for the "races", locked rear wheel into the corner taking a place or two, sliding on oposite lock (at speeds aproaching 100MPH) and then full chat, bottom cog out of the cornerI think we won something? anybody remember?
CLEM
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A C50 that hit 100mph must have been previously owned by Paul LeClair.
 
Paul Marx said:
That was before the front wheel came down.
Paul
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I think the ‘approaching speeds of 100mph’ is a reference to the IOM’s infamous stunt riding troop on Honda C90, the ‘Purple Helmets’
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A few cafe racers at the Lillestrom bike show this weekend. Among them (in the foreground) was the only Honda Goldwing I have ever thought i could like.
 

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Has been sitting in the parking lot a couple of weeks now, looking tired.....
 

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Alzero said:
What is it? Some sort of Ford Ghia? It looks like it needs saving.
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1972> Ford Granada or Consul. Ghia badging, so probably Granada, Ghia was the top trim level. Could have anything from a 1700 il4 to a 3.0 Cologne V6 installed.

Europe only afaIk. Technical highlight was the independant rear suspension. Comfortable, but has the road manners of a drunken whale...

I, for one, was quite glad to see these rustbuckets, amoung others, quietly disappear. Was a mediocre car then, time hasn't made it any better.

piet
 
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George, get the nostrils out the slaughterhouse ! There's gunna be a blaggin !

( George , would you mind collecting the shot guns from the armoury ? There's going to be an armed robbery )
 
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