Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:30.

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Re: Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:3

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Seems like you guys spent the afternoon being hoodlums and then sat around tickling each other's balls :|
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Re: Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:3

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Punx0r wrote:Seems like you guys spent the afternoon being hoodlums and then sat around tickling each other's balls :|
As oppose to sitting quietly at home, alone, tickling ones own balls?
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Re: Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:3

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so much ownage.
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Re: Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:3

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I forgot to mention, while I was attempting to find the White Horse and driving around Uffington, Woolstone and Childrey, I saw a couple of these driving along together -

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Didn't know what it was tbh (obviously haven't been paying attention recently) but saw x-bow on the side and just looked them up.... awesome looking machines. I assume they were local, I doubt you'd want to travel too far in those...
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Re: Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:3

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looks like a angry transformer
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Re: Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:3

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Made by KTM aren't they? Done as a PR exercise to prove that bike manufacturers should never try to make cars.

Not as good as an atom, but more expensive.
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Re: Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:3

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Yeah, KTM.

They look cool IMO, I like the angular styling. Angry transformers are a good thing!

Sooo much carbon -

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How expensive were they then? In fact I dont know how much an Atom is either... it's never come up, lol.

I always find it disconcerting though when you see a car on the road with drivers in crash helmets (tbh, I thought it was illegal to wear helmets in cars?) as it just seems so out of place and makes you feel like you've accidentally stumbled onto a track.

Saw a Radical round here once... I was like 'WTF' as it suddenly came round a corner going the other way and disappeared past me in no time.
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Re: Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:3

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atom is about 35 i think
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Re: Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:3

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No idea on the price... I was just quoting clarkson when he reviewed them on top gear :lol:

They do look kinda cool, a bit OTT in my opinion though. Carbon chassis/monocoque jobby is very cool though.

From what I can remember, they were slightly more money than the charged atoms, but not quite as fast and he really didnt like the handling. But it may have been a pre-production car, not setup properly or something like that?
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Funny, considering they were apparently given 'Sports Car of the Year, 2008' by Top Gear.

S/H prices seem to be anywhere between 30K and 40K, depending utterly on what their owners seem to think they're worth.

Still trying to find a new price.
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Re: Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:3

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Nevermind that Clarksons idea of handling is sliding the back end all over the place...
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Re: Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:3

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Hmm... Lovetts appear to have two of those things atm, wonder if it was those two :)

http://www.dicklovett.co.uk/Dealers/KTM ... perlight/0
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Re: Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:3

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neraly 10k extra for a few thousand miles!
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Re: Uffington White Horse 5th Meet. Saturday 25th Sept, 12:3

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Dammit, I want one.

I dont think it was those two... the ones I saw had 'X-Bow' written in some kind of decals on the rear quarter somewhere... I'd not have been able to know what they were otherwise.
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