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Jan 30, 2008 23 Replies
M

No, me neither.

My Grandad had Reliant Robins. He reckoned his 1982 model with the yellow-top 850cc engine would do and indicated 100mph. He never rolled one. I drove his last one to the dealer after he died and gave it a bit of a caning. I got it up on two wheels a couple of times, but once you learnt (quickly!) to predict it, you could corner surprisingly quickly :-) I only got 90 out of it though

My brother's just cut the floor out of an old Robin to rear-mount a CBR600 Engine in it. I know Burgerman said get a GSXR1000 motor, but the CBR was free and will do for now :-) Pics of the build to follow shortly..

Should be ok with a nice fat tyre on it.

Mike P

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I used to work in a place where much of the work was esoteric aerodynamics, particularly related to getting aurcraft to fly efficiently. We had a visit from a famous bloke from the USA who had worked on designs for several of the "Top Gun" fighters.

His one comment was "You guys are a waste of time. All you need is thrust. Thrust, thrust and more thrust. Give me enough thrust and I'll get the Statue of Liberty to fly."

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Power is nothing, without control....

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oh, I don't know. A powerful ill handling car can be quite a lot of fun.. Capri 2.8s for example. OK, they're not that powerful but they'd still be fun with double the power :-)

Mike P

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