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Brian You are the first quadricycle speeder I have heard of (although I do remember doing just short of 90 in a Reliant Kitten on the M6 Shap Fell, but that...
Steve
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Aug 1, 2003
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Hi, thanks everyone for imput about carseats in a quadricycle. I appreciate Rusty's comments about whether it wouldn't just be better to learn to drive and buy...
roxanne222uk
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Aug 1, 2003
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Aixam seats dont run forwards but u can adjust em front to back..to get in the back u lift a small leaver on the side of the back rest and they go forwards on...
sidecar_jon
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Aug 1, 2003
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... Mine adjust, lever on inside rail of seat, towards centre of car. Pull up on lever, slide seat. -- Regards John Bean...
John Bean
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Aug 1, 2003
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i ment they dont flip forwards like a conventional car seat does... our do slide backwards and forwards with the little leaver under the seat for leg room....
sidecar_jon
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Aug 1, 2003
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Hi John and welcome to the club. I had a look at your web site recently, and enjoyed the photography, partly because you photograph some of our fave places. ...
Steve
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... Thank you, though I've owned an Aixam 500 for three years now :-) ... Why thank you. I was born and lived most of my life in the northeast. Moved to...
John Bean
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Aug 1, 2003
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... Please have you got a more precise reference for the CSMA road test-I'm off to do some more measurements on the Truvelo which has quite a collection of ...
Brian Hampton
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Aug 2, 2003
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... Thank you, very helpful list. We were able to put the seat forward as I wanted to sit in the back to see just how cramped it was, it just really looked as...
roxanne222uk
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Aug 3, 2003
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... slide seat. ... Oh, that makes more sense. I shall have to look again. Roxy...
roxanne222uk
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Aug 3, 2003
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... Rich&Karen, Overall I'm impressed and enjoying (touch wood) trouble free motoring. I'm getting about 160ish miles to a tank of petrol, don't know how that...
aidanhorner
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Aug 4, 2003
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... hi jon i bet the red aixam you talk about is a petrol engine?, theres a silver 2002 petrol aixam i see most mornings on the way to work, i have to floor my...
richard
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Aug 4, 2003
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... time ... No it was bought for the guy who does my serviceing and he rekons mine is slow!... and the newere ones as well as being longer and wider are...
sidecar_jon
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Aug 4, 2003
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... A petrol Aixam? I thought they were all diesels. -- Regards John Bean...
John Bean
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Aug 4, 2003
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... hi john yes the petrol aixam has the 500cc lombardini engine in, the same unit thats in my microcar. they make 21bhp nearly twice the power of the diesels...
richard
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Aug 4, 2003
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... Well, well, you live and learn. 12.7bhp is not a lot (!) but I'll stick with the diesel. After 20k miles, mine does an honest 100-ish mpg and will maintain...
John Bean
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Aug 4, 2003
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Hi Roxy If its the Green one Nova have for sale the price looks about right for its age and milage (assuming servicing has been done). Obviously a private sale...
Steve
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Aug 5, 2003
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Poped into Northampton today, and saw: 1. a sliver Ligier Ambra diesl on a Y plate supplied by Johns Motors Fosters Booth with 5,480 miles on the clock -...
Steve
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Aug 5, 2003
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... milage (assuming servicing has been done). ... Occassionally non Aixam dealers have Aixams at very good prices - but these are very few and far between. ...
roxanne222uk
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Aug 5, 2003
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... This I would like to have seen, were you kissing the ground as you went? Roxy...
roxanne222uk
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Aug 5, 2003
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Well I like to do things in style, alas no one noticed! Mind you that "sliver" Ligier was very streamlined. Rusty ... <rusty_aixam_driver@y...> ... went?...
Steve
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Aug 6, 2003
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Unlikey to get much of a reduction, but I would try for a few hundred. Why? Because you can, and its always nice to save money. Rusty PS Has anyone reminded...
Steve
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Aug 6, 2003
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... Solvable ones or avoid like the plague ones? Roxy...
roxanne222uk
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Aug 8, 2003
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Two different problems: 1. Leaking door seal - fixable 2. split passenger foot-well (rare) - avoid like the plague Rusty ... carpet, ... some...
Steve
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Aug 10, 2003
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... door seal is ahrd to fix tho... i think imay have fixed mine but then it hasnt rained in a while... never heard of foot well splitting but i did push up...
sidecar_jon
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Aug 10, 2003
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... motoring. ... From the Microcar web-site: "Turning circle: 3.95m Fuel Tank: 18 litres, 4 gallons Boot Capacity: 920 litres" So 160 miles is approx. 40 mpg....
Steve
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Aug 10, 2003
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hi all took me aixam a run in the week to southport about a 240m round trip 50mph cruse.very pleased with mpg around 100 now 9500m on clock . last year i took...
pbc202002
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Aug 10, 2003
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... Hi Pete. 100mpg is about what I get. I did more miles than that today... Maybe my usage is a little more than average :-) -- Regards John Bean...
John Bean
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Aug 10, 2003
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Motoring and Leisure, Sept 2000, Microcars from France, by David Sumner, page 28. Such a poor effort of a test that I would not bother. Rusty...
Steve
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Aug 12, 2003
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The 40 mpg figure for two owners Microcars has bugged me a bit. I would expect more miles per gallon. Fuel consumption is one of those problem areas with...
Steve
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