OMG! Look at what was parked on my block today...

[laarree]

I was walking home from brunch today, and, as I got to my block, I spied an utterly unusual and spectacular vehicle parked at the corner, the kind of thing you wouldn't expect to see on a Brooklyn residential street. Luckily, I had my camera, and, as fate would have it, a wonderful, fast ultra-wide angle zoom lens that I had rented for the weekend for testing.



As you might imagine, this hybrid car/motorcycle was being admired by many other Sunday strollers. Eventually its owner appeared with its removable steering wheel, re-attached it, and drove away with his girl-friend. I wondered what it would be like to drive it on the streets of New York, as its chassis appeared to be no more that 4 or 5 inches off the ground.

A little googling revealed that this thing-a-ma-bob was called a Campagna T-Rex http://www.campagnamotors.com/T-REX/intro.html , advertised with the slogan, "Street Legal, Track Worthy". Its Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campagna_T-Rex calls it a three wheel motorcycle, and is apparently the product of a company based in Quebec. It'll only set you back $54,000 or so.

Here is a web gallery with more of the photos I shot, for those who would like to gape and drool over this lovely toy. http://homepage.mac.com/laarree/Sites/ca...009_09_13/

[M>B>]

I have been seeing more and more of the three wheelers!

Just Google around...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=7QO&ei=wsitSrqUBoSotgP8_bDtBA&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Three+wheeled+motorcycles&spell=1

Edit: Hum, just put "Three wheeled motorcycles" in Google search.

[Grateful11]

I was stuck in traffic one Friday afternoon and saw two girls, with one having her arms around the other, riding one these.

It was a pretty hot scene, the bike too.

[kap]

I have seen a couple of three wheel motocycles around here.

[Black]

kap wrote:
I have seen a couple of three wheel motocycles around here.

Not surprised . . .

[RgrF]

I've seen a few out here in the valley but none that looked like that.

[Jimmypoo]

I would have sprayed it with RAID.

[mattkime]

what does batman's girlfriend look like?

[MacArtist]

The Spyder looks like someone ripped the front skis off a snowmobile and bolted on some tires in their place.

[BernDog]

mattkime wrote:
what does batman's girlfriend look like?

A pubescent boy in a red vest and yellow tights.