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Cars and motorbikes are very different. I still remember being sat on a 400/4 fuel tank and told to hold on the the handlebar and taken up and down the road. No helmet, no nothing...now that is the fastest I have ever felt in my life.
Lotus 7 copy is the definition of that, or MK1 MR2, fiat x1/9 etc.
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I grew up in Caterham so I was able to pop into the old workshop (before they moved to the swanky garage in the valley). Used to spend weekends grass track racing or hillclimbing all sorts of little cars with my dad and his mates. The health and safety was mental, adults drinking all day and kids driving the cars at lunchtime. I pranged one or two fairly decent ones driving between the courses sat on my dads knee.
Once I discovered m/bikes I didn't look back. Can't see any point in carting around a giant metal shell if what you want to do is propel yourself at the scenery.
Airhead
No, but I don't drive cars that way anyway. Motorbikes are for going fast :) I do appreciate the engineering but I've no reason or desire to drive a grown up go cart.
I liked the rolls, much more my kind of thing but still not necessary. Increasingly I look at massively overpowered cars on the streets of London and wish people would stop it.
I can understand all these 70's barges coming back to London though, historic tax and ULEZ free is going to be handy until a better option comes along.