Best thing for a Reliant Robin

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/reliant-LANDSPEEDER-trike-fun_W0QQitemZ30034635788
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"was converted to look like the land speeder out of star wars for a stag
do and been on the road as a speeder ever since"

Excellent.

 

That `Reliant Robin` happens to be a `Reliant RIALTO` ...

Regards.

Lee.

 

That post of yours happens to be in the wrong position.

Please post at the bottom (below the text to which you are responding)
in uk.r.m.

All the best.

 

That was ebayed not very long ago [1] but differnetly

[1] not in a galaxy far, far away.

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Not according to the guy advertising it

Quote "started life as a bog standard robin reliant"


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Doesn't look much like the 'real' thing ..

http://www.krunker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/landspeeder-thumb.jpg

Paul.

 

<gripe mode / on>

Why do so many folk get that wrong ... the 'Robin Reliant' thing I
mean. I've seen it on car shows, the Police using it, that eBay item
and they must have said it wrong 100 times on Scrap Heap Challenge the
other day <Grrrrr>.

I can sort of understand why they might say 'Robin Reliant' ... like
it was the 'reliable' model, something to be depended on as you didn't
seem to hear 'Rialto Reliant' or 'Kitten Reliant' mentioned much or at
all? Maybe that's just because most people have never heard of the
others?

Or maybe it's because most folk only know of the Robin model via Only
Fools and Horses ... (but that was a Reliant Regal and I believe a
Supervan III). ;-)

<gripe mode / off>

T i m

p.s. I know what I know about them because an Uncle had a Regal Van
(turned into an estate) and later a Robin. I put a new kingpin and
repaired the on the body shell on the Robin for him (when a work Land
Rover backed into it). Weren't they often the 'winter hack' for many
bikers for some years?

 

It's because...

<drum-roll/>

....most people don't give a shit.

 

As a three-wheeler, you could drive them on a Motorbike licence, so
quite a few folk without car licences used them.Also, IIRC, they only
attracted motorbike VED rates.

 

True, often with reverse blanked off if I remember correctly?

And also why the Reliants (rather than any 'other' bubble car / three
wheeler) were popular amongst bikers would have been the low cost (I
had (have) a Messerschmitt KR200 but got my full bike and car licences
at 17 anyway).

Another sad fact was I think the later models had to be sold without a
spare wheel as they beefed up the (thin / rusting) chassis, doing so
took them just under the maximum weight for the 'Tricycle' class so
could still be driven on a bike licence. Buying a spare wheel as an
extra was ok though. ;-)


T i m

 

Not sure why they'd need this. Various factory-built combinations,
like the Cossack, also had a reverse gear, so I don't think this
classified it as a car.

 

Probably true, especially now days but they often still give enough of
a shit to bother saying the make and model (all be it in the wrong
order) rather than just calling them 'three wheelers'?

However here are quite people out there who do give a shit about
trains, planes and automobiles etc, enough to bother listing all their
bikes in their sig for example and down to the last detail. ;-)

 

No, indeed, but I'm pretty sure there was something in the rules that
stipulated the reverse thing.

Like most things that way folk often removed the blank / whatever but
I can even remember tales of folk in forward opening front door bubble
cars (Isettas and BMWs ect), driving too far into their garage over
stuff on the floor then not being able to open the (front) door enough
to get out (without suffering damage to the paintwork etc).

I'm also pretty sure this only applied to non_full licence holders
(but I can't remember how).

T i m

 

Can you ride a Glodwing on a bike licence then?

 

So does mine. It's called my feet.

 

Hoover, Walkman, iPod etc...

Brand names that have become synonyms.

 

My old mate I met on the IoM has built his own car - with four wheels.
I think it is the weight that is important now. He constructed it
around the ability to carry a bike and two people. It also features a
towing hook at the fron so that it can be pulled behind his camper
van. Powered by a Honda Acty van 550 twin engine. Got round the
requirement for a SVA because it was under a certain weight. Having
said that, he did take it to the weighbridge minus oil and fuel ;-)

 

Ah, cheers.

T i m

 

Now that is cutting it fine!

T i m

 

I'll give you those, but what then of the term "bubble car' to
represent all 'bubble cars'? Why Robin Reliant to represent 'all non
bubble car three wheelers' when it was a Reliant Robin, or are you
suggesting it was the incorrect use of the name in Only Fools [1] that
made it then become a synonym?

My point wasn't that they mixed up the models but that they mixed up
the name (in case we are at cross purposes here).

T i m

[1] I'm not sure they did other than calling it a Robin when it was a
Regal?