Oh look, a Sinclair C5, that’s cool. Wait, there’s another Sinclair C5. And another, and another. Strange? Not really, because it’s Rule Britannia Sunday Breakfast Club, a celebration of the British motor industry, and the perfect place for a quintet of C5s.
Gallery: Ever seen four Sinclair C5s together?
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In case you’re unfamiliar with the Sinclair C5 it’s a single-seat, electric recumbent tricycle from 1985, the creation of Clive Sinclair, the oddball computing and electronics entrepreneur who passed away in 2021. It was built in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, and with a 250W motor and 12V battery could take its user 20 miles on a charge. A commercial success it was not, but to look at today it’s a funky and curious creation.
The idea of piloting one of these today seems slightly terrifying. They weren’t fast, able to travel at up to around 15mph, but you more or less lie down in a C5, steering the front wheel with handlebars below your legs. Still, if someone asked us if we’d like a go, we wouldn’t say no…
Photography by James Lynch.
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