Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: New and old story Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 07:10:23 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: <0kkl6jhh93g80tta0vhsnrk2hsjb5udbhs@4ax.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:10:27 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="40651690de7967855639a0596ab401b0"; logging-data="2360383"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+W2SLKrabwfRIMhwnDNVY8nyuOdVpJWvE=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:T6wc1v0v2gw+jFwPNUPDd1S8Zko= Bytes: 2396 On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:48:18 GMT, Roger Merriman wrote: >Catrike Ryder wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:36:49 -0500, AMuzi wrote: >> >>> On 6/12/2024 2:31 PM, Zen Cycle wrote: >>>> On 6/12/2024 1:35 PM, AMuzi wrote: >>>>> This caught my eye as I once started and ran a corporation >>>>> named Ariel. (tip o' the hat to James Starley) >>>>> >>>>> https://cyclingindustry.news/auto-company-ariel-returns-to-bicycle-manufacture-after-92-years/ >>>> >>>> Prior to this, my only knowledge of Ariel was: >>>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4YNkurhLk >>>> >>>> "It's so quick, it can destroy your entire face" >>>> >>>> And a follow-up with the V8 version >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zNPFcn3pAw >>>> >>> >>> Cool. Sort of a Lotus Super Seven for this new century. >>> >>> Ariel is noted among wheelbuilders for the first >>> tangentially spoked wheel. >> >> Nice, but I think I prefer the Lotus 7. >> >> https://caterhamcars.com/us/models/the-range >> > >The 7 seems of been a basis for number of cars, used be kit cars versions >as well. Indeed. I once drove one, a Blakely Bantam. It was cute and fast, but not a Lotus 7. >Plus lotus cars and know how being used on all sorts of cars.