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Rolling a Reliant Robin | Top Gear, BBC (2010)
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hendrik palaver.p3x.de hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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Jeremy takes the extreme sport of Reliant Robin rolling to the streets of Barnsley, aided by a string of celebrities who just happen to be on hand to help keep the fabled three-wheeler upright.

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breadsmasher lemmy.world breadsmasher@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
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This was intentionally faked.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/entertainment/news/a27897/jeremy-clarkson-admits-reliant-robin-rollovers-were-totally-rigged/

"A normal Reliant Robin will not roll unless a drunken rugby team is on hand. Or it's windy. But in a headlong drive to amuse and entertain, I'd asked the backroom boys to play around with the differential so that the poor little thing rolled over every time I turned the steering wheel," he wrote.

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hendrik Moderator hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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This was intentionally faked. https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/entertainment/news/a27897/jeremy-clarkson-admits-reliant-robin-rollovers-were-totally-rigged/ "A normal Reliant Robin will not roll unless a drunken rugby team is on hand. Or it's windy. But in a headlong drive to amuse and entertain, I'd asked the backroom boys to play around with the differential so that the poor little th...

Thanks for the link. That gives some more context. But sure, I thought it was clear from all the comedy parts and everything being completely over the top, that this is british humour and not reality. I mean I've seen motorbikes, tricycles, mitorcycles with sidecars, and some small three-wheeled cars, and they're all fine 😆

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breadsmasher lemmy.world breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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Thanks for the link. That gives some more context. But sure, I thought it was clear from all the comedy parts and everything being completely over the top, that this is british humour and not reality. I mean I've seen motorbikes, tricycles, mitorcycles with sidecars, and some small three-wheeled cars, and they're all fine 😆

I am british.

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