{"id":5937,"date":"2010-11-12T21:47:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T02:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=5937"},"modified":"2010-11-12T21:47:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T02:47:13","slug":"clives-c5-for-the-2010s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/clives-c5-for-the-2010s\/","title":{"rendered":"Clive&#8217;s C5 for the 2010s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s got one fewer wheels than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinclairc5.com\/\">C5 <\/a>(which, stap me, appeared a quarter century ago) but it does look like a proper recumbent:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinclairzx.com\/spec-x-1.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5938\" title=\"Sinclair Research X-1\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/x-1-spec-320x302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/x-1-spec-320x302.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/x-1-spec-160x151.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/x-1-spec.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>While the <a title=\"Sinclair Research design and product portfolio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinclairzx.com\/index2.html\">Sinclair Research<\/a> X-1 does look quite nifty, I worry about the &#8220;Reserve now for \u00c2\u00a3100, pay the rest on delivery next year&#8221; terms. It&#8217;ll probably turn up at the end of 2012 with a wobbly RAM expansion, and needing a firmware upgrade before it can turn left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s got one fewer wheels than the C5 (which, stap me, appeared a quarter century ago) but it does look like a proper recumbent: While the Sinclair Research X-1 does look quite nifty, I worry about the &#8220;Reserve now for \u00c2\u00a3100, pay the rest on delivery next year&#8221; terms. It&#8217;ll probably turn up at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,2234,2233,1339,2099],"class_list":["post-5937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-stuff","tag-bike","tag-c5","tag-electric","tag-recumbent","tag-sinclair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1xL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5940,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions\/5940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}