Restoring a Sinclair C5

Nice! I was in Cromer, Norfolk over the Easter holidays and saw my first C5 in the flesh. It was kinda odd as it seemed to be following me around as it was parked up in numerous places I went during the day, but someone is clearly getting around well on it in a pretty hilly area :)

Always good to see more Sinclair C5 content. My one claim to fame is that I am the person pictured 'driving' a friend's Sinclair C5 on the wikipedia page!

We had a C5 that was donated to my school.<p>The science teacher replaced the motorbike battery with a car battery… and I got to ride it once.<p>It was magic. :D

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Red Dwarf fans can see Lister riding around on his “space bike” in early episodes which is just a Sinclair C5 with some handles and a few other things added on for decoration.

Many of them were acquired by a gym chain, and stuck by the side of roads with a flag in them saying &quot;Thor&#x27;s Gym&quot; or something. Eye-catcher roadside trash.

Rad. The main problem was that they marketed it to adults, and they should have sold it to kids instead. I would have sold a kidney.

I think &quot;Recumbent Tricycle&quot; is my new favourite insult

Ohmigod - the nadir of British industry (or was that the Sinclair QL). I used occasionally see one of these scuttling around the North Circular in London UK, and I guess I admired the owner for his suicidal bravery, given that the NC is one of London&#x27;s busiest roads.<p>Basically, a plastic shell around a washing-machine motor and under-watted battery - you could also pedal it yourself, except you really couldn&#x27;t. And don&#x27;t forget the flagstaff so HGV drivers have a chance of seeing you.