New Sinclair C5

Chizz

The Iris. Electric bicycle. "Invented" by Grant Sinclair, nephew of Sir Clive Sinclair. £3,000 motorised crash helmet? Or next, mass-market must-have?

jonseventyfive

Colour code it with a tail, and hay presto your a giant sperm.

SantaClaus

I'm not sure Elon Musk will be losing any sleep.

CAFC Luke

And here I was thinking channel 5 had given Scott Sinclair a tv show

Alwaysneil

SantaClaus said:

I'm not sure Elon Musk will be losing any sleep.

Elon Musk doesn't sleep.

DRAddick

Genius. A bike that quadruples your journey time in town because it's too big to get through traffic. And where the f are you supposed to leave it when you get to where you're going?

AddicksAddict

The C5 was a complete disaster and this will be, too.

Any that get sold will be appearing at boot fairs within a few years, priced at less than that £99 deposit on the web site.

charltonkeston

I would have thought it would be unusable in the rain. No wiper on the outside and no demister inside. And a brilliant weight loss sauna in any temperature over 3C.
Probably be a greater success than his uncles vehicle because there are plenty people around nowadays that have £3000 to look trendy with on the streets of the West End.
I can't see them being an everyday sight in and around Orpington anytime soon.

ForeverAddickted

What do you do if your sitting at a Red Light and some joker comes along, lifts up the front and turns you round so your facing the wrong way?

kentaddick

As if wearing lycra didn't make you look like a prat, anyone riding this will look like a right div.

cafcfan

Ooh! Look, there's an "Extreme" version. grantsinclair.com/en/all-products/iris-extreme.html

Lincsaddick

I was in the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry this afternoon (WELL worth a visit). One of the many interesting exhibits is a Sinclair 'trike' ... as I walked past it on the way to the aircraft exhibitions a young girl was saying 'I'd like one of those', her Mum (I presume) said 'no dear, they are deathtraps' ..

cafcfan

Bad choice of name, too, the IRIS: with Trump's grasp of foreign affairs and lack of spelling, they can expect a drone strike on the factory sometime soon.