Or tanks? :)

Possibly he has yet to drive a Reliant Robin.

No, I haven't either: has any of us? If so, what was it like?

I have it was hilarious I paid £50 for it. It's not something I'd want to drive now but back when i was 17 it was great fun until I rolled it over but then I just pushed it back over again. Someone stole it one night though and then I bought a fiat pinto Mk1.

All this was on private land though so I wasn't driving recklessly on the public highway.

Way back when I was an apprentice in the dark ages, we had a couple of lads who could not seem to pass their driving test. We nearly all had motorbikes to get around the sites when not working in the workshops, so the boss bought a Reliant 3 wheeler. This could be driven on a motorbike license so the unlucky few who needed to go to site and carry some kit and materials got the Reliant. It was a pale blue thing and I only went in it once to a job, never again. Did not feel at all safe. I stuck to our trusty Bedford vans after that. It must have been some incentive because within months the recalcitrant drivers had miraculously passed their tests. The boss kept it around for a while and I think used as a punishment if anyone was being silly. Probably sprayed it Yellow and sold it to Delboy!!!

The last 10 years of working life I was a regional manager for an international construction company. The 'region' consisted of the North of England from Sheffield upwards and Scotland. Mostly our work was in the larger towns and cities but I was driving about 30k miles per annum and putting in a days work every day too. I felt like a professional driver myself some weeks. Especially when we had two consecutive contracts in Aberdeen then one in Shetland. A helicopter would have been more use.

Cheers Concrete

I still hanker after an orange Bond Bug.

To whet your appetite, how about this? Powered by a turbo'd Suzuki Hayabusa motor, putting out around 300bhp. Standing quarter in 11.3s at 118mph terminal speed ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mltCdPF9MGI

well driver 1983

I have been driving since 1976 & also have Bike, HGV1 & full PSV licence and to keep it up apart from a periodic medical I sit my DCPC

Its no big deal, not too expensive and you just pay for each module.

1 day per year or 5 days in 1-5 years

In fact I have just sat a few modules all in one go as i'm currently not working and any modules over and above your required hours adds on to extend your 5 year period.

In fact If I was bored next week and sat another 5 modules I would be sorted for 10 years.

There's no exams involved for those who took their HGV before about 1994 i think thats the correct date.

The biggest laugh is that in all the CPC modules they bang on about cyclist killed by lorries, what they don't tell you is there are more pedestrians killed by cyclists flying up and down cycle lanes at speed than there are cyclist killed by trucks

Probably because there is no truth in your 'statistic'.

The government has recently pointed out that “There were 2,491 recorded collisions between cyclists and pedestrians (where no other vehicle was involved) that resulted in a pedestrian casualty between 2011-2016, of which 20 were fatal and 546 resulted in serious injury.”

Wait till you see the statistics for 2019-2020. they take about 4 years to catch up.

Its really quite alarming !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi al,

No tanks, and no robin reliant, not been much of a biker except to look at them which I love to do, My bike history was very brief.

I used to have a honda c50 and used to go out on my brothers 125, that's it. I would love to try the reliant but seems as previously stated that its a bit risky, which means a lot of fun and not much else, I did recover a reliant while working for J&K recovery, and a caravan once.

But I like my creature comforts too much to go on 2 wheels.