Edit, that clearance used to be 11 foot, 8 inches and was raised to 12 foot, 4 inches and still gets whacked.
It's not so much that the clearance was raised, they actually had to lower the road. Expensive it was, difference to bridge strikes it made was nothing.
Actually as long as none of it extends past the sides or rear of the car and it's properly attached it would be legal. It looks OK to me from that picture. You would of course have to tell your insurance company and they may have a different view of it.
But I think over height might be a problem.
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Edit, that clearance used to be 11 foot, 8 inches and was raised to 12 foot, 4 inches and still gets whacked.Exactly that, the height alone would make it a liability and a guaranteed magnet for any law enforcement officer
I don't know, scaling off the image it looks to be about twich the hight of the car. The XJ is 1.3m high. So dragon is 2.6m. That would be about 4m /13ft total. In the UK that would not make it a tall vehicle. The standard for tall is >4.5m. Standard road clearance in UK is 5m / 16ft.
The biggest issue I can see is stability. The raised CofG could cause issues bu it does not look that heavy.
Edit, that clearance used to be 11 foot, 8 inches and was raised to 12 foot, 4 inches and still gets whacked.
It's not so much that the clearance was raised, they actually had to lower the road. Expensive it was, difference to bridge strikes it made was nothing.
As I understand it, there was discussion about lowering the road surface - but that was not possible due to the water pipes that run beneath. The bridge WAS, in fact, raised - with the track re-graded to run level with an intersection a short distance away.
It's still fascinating to watch.
WTF, there is no way that PC plod would allow that to make it on the roads, that is an instant accident just waiting to happen
Actually as long as none of it extends past the sides or rear of the car and it's properly attached it would be legal. It looks OK to me from that picture. You would of course have to tell your insurance company and they may have a different view of it.
My issue is that tha is the sort of thing that the police would stop and quetion you about. But my current bugbear, electric scooters seem to be ignored. I saw one on Friday. A woman on the pavement weaving in and out of pedestrians going to a primary scholl round 9AM. She had her kid stood on the platform in front of her I don't have a motorcycle licence. I bet if I was doing the same thing on a unregistered & uninsured trials bike they would call the police and I'd get multiple charges. They don't bother with the scooters but its EXACTLY the same offences
(and no it wasn't a rental one which are "registered" and insured but are not allowed on the pavement or multiple riders)
Stability talk and Vehicle and the UK how cute
Back to TEA,
Pre Covid I picked up a 100K "SUBSTANDARD" resistor at local rally. It's not poor quality just an odd name for secondary standard.
Unfortunatly this one was substandard, It was open circuit. Internally it had 6 bobbin resistors. Each should be about 16.6667k. Two were open circuit. I would not even bother finding the open because the other 4 are probaly about to fail. I did have in my high accuraracy resistor box some General Resistance (now Prime Technology) NOS and ex equipment precision resistors. A quick check found a ex equpment 100K 0.0025% 12S30. This checked OK. A repair / upgrde was completed. I was careful not to overheat the resistor so only the tinnin from when it was removed was wetted with fresh solder. The copper etensions to the binding points are symmetrical so TCs should balance. The resistor is date 19 week of 1968 so well aged.
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Actually as long as none of it extends past the sides or rear of the car and it's properly attached it would be legal. It looks OK to me from that picture. You would of course have to tell your insurance company and they may have a different view of it.
But I think over height might be a problem.
<SNIP>
Edit, that clearance used to be 11 foot, 8 inches and was raised to 12 foot, 4 inches and still gets whacked.Exactly that, the height alone would make it a liability and a guaranteed magnet for any law enforcement officer
I don't know, scaling off the image it looks to be about twich the hight of the car. The XJ is 1.3m high. So dragon is 2.6m. That would be about 4m /13ft total. In the UK that would not make it a tall vehicle. The standard for tall is >4.5m. Standard road clearance in UK is 5m / 16ft.
The biggest issue I can see is stability. The raised CofG could cause issues bu it does not look that heavy.
I don't think it's the CoG that you'd need to worry about, it's the CoP. That and the lift. Do more than 15 mph in that, hit the wrong gust of wind as well and I reckon that you'd be doing somersaults.
Actually as long as none of it extends past the sides or rear of the car and it's properly attached it would be legal. It looks OK to me from that picture. You would of course have to tell your insurance company and they may have a different view of it.But I think over height might be a problem.
<SNIP>
Edit, that clearance used to be 11 foot, 8 inches and was raised to 12 foot, 4 inches and still gets whacked.Exactly that, the height alone would make it a liability and a guaranteed magnet for any law enforcement officer
I don't know, scaling off the image it looks to be about twich the hight of the car. The XJ is 1.3m high. So dragon is 2.6m. That would be about 4m /13ft total. In the UK that would not make it a tall vehicle. The standard for tall is >4.5m. Standard road clearance in UK is 5m / 16ft.
The biggest issue I can see is stability. The raised CofG could cause issues bu it does not look that heavy.
I don't think it's the CoG that you'd need to worry about, it's the CoP. That and the lift. Do more than 15 mph in that, hit the wrong gust of wind as well and I reckon that you'd be doing somersaults.
Edit, that clearance used to be 11 foot, 8 inches and was raised to 12 foot, 4 inches and still gets whacked.It's not so much that the clearance was raised, they actually had to lower the road. Expensive it was, difference to bridge strikes it made was nothing.As I understand it, there was discussion about lowering the road surface - but that was not possible due to the water pipes that run beneath. The bridge WAS, in fact, raised - with the track re-graded to run level with an intersection a short distance away. It's still fascinating to watch.
That is correct. There is a video on raising the bridge I just don't feel like looking for it right now.
And if I told Cerebus directly that he was wrong he'd accuse me of being anti-social.
Edit, that clearance used to be 11 foot, 8 inches and was raised to 12 foot, 4 inches and still gets whacked.It's not so much that the clearance was raised, they actually had to lower the road. Expensive it was, difference to bridge strikes it made was nothing.As I understand it, there was discussion about lowering the road surface - but that was not possible due to the water pipes that run beneath. The bridge WAS, in fact, raised - with the track re-graded to run level with an intersection a short distance away. It's still fascinating to watch.
That is correct. There is a video on raising the bridge I just don't feel like looking for it right now.
And if I told Cerebus directly that he was wrong he'd accuse me of being anti-social.Not accusing. Reaffirming. Your place in the Brotherhood of Crusty ol' Curmudgeons.
mnem
I am not a curmudgeon... A swine-mudgeon, maybe... a repti-mudgeon for sure. But not a curmudgeon.
Stability talk and Vehicle and the UK how cute
Yeah, I never did get the niche these deathtraps filled...? A super low-performance cummuter car?
Or was it just exploiting a legal loophole that allowed them to be registered as a motorcycle because of 3 wheels? Did that come with lower cost re: registration/insurance or something?
mnem
Edit, that clearance used to be 11 foot, 8 inches and was raised to 12 foot, 4 inches and still gets whacked.It's not so much that the clearance was raised, they actually had to lower the road. Expensive it was, difference to bridge strikes it made was nothing.As I understand it, there was discussion about lowering the road surface - but that was not possible due to the water pipes that run beneath. The bridge WAS, in fact, raised - with the track re-graded to run level with an intersection a short distance away. It's still fascinating to watch.
That is correct. There is a video on raising the bridge I just don't feel like looking for it right now.
And if I told Cerebus directly that he was wrong he'd accuse me of being anti-social.Not accusing. Reaffirming. Your place in the Brotherhood of Crusty ol' Curmudgeons.
mnem
I am not a curmudgeon... A swine-mudgeon, maybe... a repti-mudgeon for sure. But not a curmudgeon.
Edit, that clearance used to be 11 foot, 8 inches and was raised to 12 foot, 4 inches and still gets whacked.
It's not so much that the clearance was raised, they actually had to lower the road. Expensive it was, difference to bridge strikes it made was nothing.
As I understand it, there was discussion about lowering the road surface - but that was not possible due to the water pipes that run beneath. The bridge WAS, in fact, raised - with the track re-graded to run level with an intersection a short distance away.
It's still fascinating to watch.
That is correct. There is a video on raising the bridge I just don't feel like looking for it right now.
And if I told Cerebus directly that he was wrong he'd accuse me of being anti-social.
Actually as long as none of it extends past the sides or rear of the car and it's properly attached it would be legal. It looks OK to me from that picture. You would of course have to tell your insurance company and they may have a different view of it.
But I think over height might be a problem.
<SNIP>
Edit, that clearance used to be 11 foot, 8 inches and was raised to 12 foot, 4 inches and still gets whacked.Exactly that, the height alone would make it a liability and a guaranteed magnet for any law enforcement officer
I don't know, scaling off the image it looks to be about twich the hight of the car. The XJ is 1.3m high. So dragon is 2.6m. That would be about 4m /13ft total. In the UK that would not make it a tall vehicle. The standard for tall is >4.5m. Standard road clearance in UK is 5m / 16ft.
The biggest issue I can see is stability. The raised CofG could cause issues bu it does not look that heavy.
I don't think it's the CoG that you'd need to worry about, it's the CoP. That and the lift. Do more than 15 mph in that, hit the wrong gust of wind as well and I reckon that you'd be doing somersaults.
IIRC back in the 80s the Ford Sierra's CoG and CoP weren't in the same place. Apparently a stiff crosswind meant steering was less precise than desirable.
Stability talk and Vehicle and the UK how cute
Yeah, I never did get the niche these deathtraps filled...? A super low-performance cummuter car?
Or was it just exploiting a legal loophole that allowed them to be registered as a motorcycle because of 3 wheels? Did that come with lower cost re: registration/insurance or something?
mnem
In the UK you can drive a three wheeler on a motorcycle or car licence. This made 3 wheelers poular with riders who never got a car licence. The 3 wheelers also had lower road tax and general running costs.
Edit, that clearance used to be 11 foot, 8 inches and was raised to 12 foot, 4 inches and still gets whacked.It's not so much that the clearance was raised, they actually had to lower the road. Expensive it was, difference to bridge strikes it made was nothing.As I understand it, there was discussion about lowering the road surface - but that was not possible due to the water pipes that run beneath. The bridge WAS, in fact, raised - with the track re-graded to run level with an intersection a short distance away. It's still fascinating to watch.
That is correct. There is a video on raising the bridge I just don't feel like looking for it right now.
And if I told Cerebus directly that he was wrong he'd accuse me of being anti-social.Not accusing. Reaffirming. Your place in the Brotherhood of Crusty ol' Curmudgeons.
mnem
I am not a curmudgeon... A swine-mudgeon, maybe... a repti-mudgeon for sure. But not a curmudgeon.
Stability talk and Vehicle and the UK how cute
Yeah, I never did get the niche these deathtraps filled...? A super low-performance cummuter car?
Or was it just exploiting a legal loophole that allowed them to be registered as a motorcycle because of 3 wheels? Did that come with lower cost re: registration/insurance or something?
mnem
In the UK you can drive a three wheeler on a motorcycle or car licence. This made 3 wheelers poular with riders who never got a car licence. The 3 wheelers also had lower road tax and general running costs.
The history of motorcycle licensing in the UK goes roughly like this:
- You could ride any motorcycle on a provisional (learner) license with no prior experience or testing
- You could ride a motorcycle up to 250cc engine capacity OR a motorcycle up to 350cc with sidecar on a provisional (learner) license with no prior experience or testing
- You could ride a motorcycle up to 125cc engine capacity OR a motorcycle up to 350cc with sidecar on a provisional (learner) license with no prior experience or testing
- You could ride a motorcycle up to 125cc engine capacity on a provisional license after taking a basic off road course of instruction (Compulsory Basic Training) for a maximum of two years before you must have taken and passed your full driving theory and practical tests
The time when 3 wheelers were introduced like the Reliant, and the Messerschmidt, Isseta and other 3 wheeled weirdoes that were legally classed as motorbikes coincided with regime (1) above.
There are various power limits that have gone with the capacity limits over the years.
Is that an invitation to piss up the ropeJust checking to make sure, that's all, seeing as it wasn't me that pee'd you off