OT : Not seen these before....

http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/trip_reports/trip50/index.html

About 20 pics up from the bottom.

Looks interesting.

And slightly less chav than the gold wearing, baseball cap sporting chav
ridden ones you get around here.

 

Hmmm...

From the pictures, I looked at the mfrs website:
http://www.gg-technik.ch
and from there followed the dealer links and found that there's one for
sale at:
http://www.boom-trikes.co.uk

ukp31,000 if you have to ask.

 

FFS, how did he not notice?
http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/trip_reports/trip50/24-tonypad.jpg

 

I'd 've thought, that if someone wanted a go-kart, they
would have bought a go-kart. Or Radical, or whatever.

Guess it's aimed at the trike market - for those that find
that trikes don't have enough wheels.

 

Depends what he was driving - a really noisy car (all padding gone, race
gearbox, etc) and the rubbing noise of a fucked pad wouldn't stand out
much.

Otoh, he might just be a plank.

 

I doubt that - even very noisy cars will not drown
out the high-pitched squeal of metal-on-metal when
he pulls up from a thrash or rolling it off the back
of a trailer, surely?

Then there's the performance aspect; lots of smoke,
sparks and dreadful wear of a brake disk. Poor feel
from the brakes and terrible braking performance.

What about routine inspections? How long have you
got to go before you wear through a good few mm of
brake pad backing plate metal, or at least notice
the loss of brake fluid due to the extra distance
that the pistons are travelling, and wonder where
it's all gone?

This would appear to be the case...

"Tony, a Probe driver, had left his brake-pad
change a little late."
http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/trip_reports/trip50/24-tony.jpg

 

Kinell! It's Paul Carmichael's brother!

 

Showing the world his bit, I see.