ive started a new game. its called "what can you cook while jimmer laps the ring in a robin" i managed fish cakes and mushy peas. tomorrow im gonna attempt roast beef and yorkshire puddings
I managed to make two Chicken Cordon Bleus. Granted they were from frozen, but I had to wait a solid 12 minutes for those damn breaded-chicken sandwiches.
Also the Scimitar, which wasn't completely terrible. There is a hillclimb Robin with a bike engine around, definitely doesn't roll over. Does seem to understeer a bit, unsurprisingly.... @Nigel Mansell - the company was Reliant. You can drive 3-wheelers on a motorbike license in the UK - these days it's easier just to get a car license, but once upon a time apparently that wasn't so, so there were a bunch of them. The Bond Bug was much more fun.
France: Drive a basket of eggs on the passenger seat through a freshly plowed field without an egg breaking... in a 2CV.. It was actually build to do that. The suspension was specifically designed to do just that.
This was so brilliant and I loved watching it through your virtual glasses. The commentary was great, "I can't believe I'm heel-and toeing a Reliant Robin but I guess that's what my channel's come to." Hey, you're the man to do it. No one else is!
The original engines in the early 747cc Reliants was a sidevalve Austin 7 unit. I believe they then went over to their own 750 and 850cc aluminium engines that had a reputation for being able to take revs with abandon. Know someone who had an 850 with a big carb and exhaust that used to want to pull crazy rpm. Great content as usual bud!
Brings back memories from my childhood. Grandad had a green robin reliant and the funnist thing I was told that he once overtook a jag on the motorway with a full load and the jag owners face was priceless as he overtook
Owned and drove 2 of these on my motorbike licence. Official wording was you could drive a "light tricycle or quadricycle under 650kg" which included both the Reliant Robin (3 wheeler) and Reliant Kitten (4 wheeler)... weight was kept down due to the fibreglass body! Oh the safety :D This classification also included the Caterham 7, meaning I could have driven one with no car driving experience whatsoever. Fun fact, I replaced an engine in one of my Robins (the estate, fancy!) and lifted the body and chassis off the engine as it was lighter :P
This takes me back to the Greaves Invacar Model 70, unkindly referred to a the Spaz Chariot (people were not into PC in those days). Bert Greaves had a disabled cousin called Derry Preston-Cobb who got Bert to build him a rather more interesting version of the three wheeled vehicle for disabled. Derry operated his three wheeler from his wheelchair which was pushed into this vehicle from the back (I doubt it had any sort of anchor). It had no body or roof. Well he was a total hooligan and always getting into trouble with the cops. I think it started with a tuned Villiers engine, but rumour had it that it eventually evolved to a 250cc Griffon scrambler engine, which made it stupid fast considering its total lack of stability. Note: I've just checked Wikipedia and Derry's death-trap was actually the forerunner and inspiration for the Invacar.
Yo jimmy good job with the gtsport hosting. Your a natural at it bro. Also there is a guy who did a hayabusa swap and wide body reliant for hill climb events. Its on youtube and its dope.
It was classified as a motorbike for insurance reasons from what i understand. Which made them popular in the north where money was tight, and the weather didn't permit travel by motorbike on most days.
The Reliant Robin was a car for people with a motorcycle licence who couldnt actually pay for a motorbike. It was an easy and cheap way of transportation. Many people like builders bought them... and many died....
I remember back in the 90's there was an elderly neighbor driving one of these Reliant Robin. Quite the odd sight, he never drove it outside 60 kph zones and most often you could overtake him with a bicycle. It's a funny car.
The car was actually made for the miners who usually ride 50cc motorbikes to work, wanted something to keep them out of the rain and cold in winter. Because of the size of the engine you didn't need a full drivers licence, only moped one.
There was also a Reliant Fox, which was basically this with four wheels (and it sounds fun as hell), which also got a pickup version, absurdly enough. The Robin was followed up with the also 3-wheeled Rialto, which was in production into the 21st century! Maybe they'll come back one day.
Oh also look up the racing formula "Stadium Supertrucks". It's basically toned-down monster trucks actually raced on tracks... with jumps on the straights because why not? They roll over constantly, too. Try taking one of them round!
After watching the reliant robin rally stage last night I decided to revisit this one. Reliant - What an ironic name for a car! But then the robin part makes sense because it kind of gives the sense of robbing you of something that you can rely on.
Only the very early Robins were 750cc, most were 850cc. The Robins forte was that you didn't need a car licence to drive one, with it only having 3 wheels, you could drive it on a motorcycle licence. Reliant weren't stupid!! - there was a four wheel version is called the 'Kitten' :o)
I was a UK career fire officer and I never, ever managed to save a single one of these things. To give an example of how bloody dangerous they are I watched one pull up outside our fire station in Newton Heath, Manchester, UK with smoke issuing from the bonnet. We turned out immediately but by the time we conned PPE and drove out of the appliance room the thing was lost. All that ever remained of these 'plastic pigs' was a triangular steel chassis, three steel wheels, a large blob of aluminium and a set of tubular steel seat frames, plus a large area of melted tarmac and a black cloud drifting into the distance. They were bloody lethal. If it caught fire and you couldn't get out within a very few seconds you were gone!!! You could only drive it on a motorcycle licence IF reverse gear was removed or blocked off but that was only on the older A1 category. The right to drive it under the new B1 licence was withdrawn until 2012 when it again was classed as a motorcycle under EU law. The engines in these were brilliant, a full four cylinder 850cc (early models were 750cc) motor built by Coventry Climax, a company with real racing pedigree. 0-60 in 14 seconds. It was not a motorcycle engine. We used the same motor on our portable pumps and they would run continuously for days, pumping from open water and not even stopping during refueling.
we seriously need a Reliant Robin Racing Series, the RRRS, with forty Reliant Robins lapping tracks like Goodwood for something like twenty or thirty minutes.
Maybe they should have put short struts on each front corner with casters on them to help the car stay upright. Kind of how the U2 and B-47 aircraft have light wing wheels that basically keep the wings from dragging. In a "racing" crash they'd probably snap off but in normal driving they might help.
On the bright side. I can’t imaging the front wheel touches the curb much. Looks more like a Sunday drive more than a hot lap. My favourite feature is the interior. Who ever did that left it till 5:30pm on a Friday.
Magic stuff as always, so much concentration just to avoid rolling the thing. BTW - what is that fluorescent dancing thing at the bottom left hand corner during the closing sequence? Does it have a name? I want to give it a name.
The only thing this world needs is Reliant Robin on the Isle of Man TT course. I want to see it and I'm willing to pay with nothing, cause nothing will be better than that.
Fun fact: they reclassified cars like this as a "small car" so you needed to get a car licence to drive it because people were exploiting being able to drive one on a motorcycle licence, which was cheaper and easier to get than a car licence. Then a couple of years ago they changed a 3-wheel car to be classified as a type of motorcycle because of people exploiting being able to drive motorcycle-style 3-wheelers on a car licence, which these days is cheaper and easier to get than a motorcycle licence.
there was another complication. I think from memory that you could only drive a robin on a motorcycle license if you had the variant that did not have a reverse gear, might have to google that a bit more, but that was the 'word on the street' when I was 17 a really long time ago :)
Is one of Jay Leno’s Tank Cars in the game? Managed a 10:58 on the 24h circuit in GT6. Realize that’s a completely different game, but am curious if you can beat it.
Hello! Why isn't yesterday's stream available for watching? 2018 career round 10 I mean. I can't usually watch them live so I like to watch them on demand later
"the 3 wheels, it adds an interesting element"
Did you mean "takes out a crucial element"......?
No. I don't see a problem 😂🤣
@Fawexx peel p50: i guess you wonder where i've been
@Izumi Culture 😂🤣😂🤣true
I think it's very interesting. I would LOVE to see this car being driven on the limit, getting the chassis 1cm off the ground.
Come on. Seriously.
ive started a new game. its called "what can you cook while jimmer laps the ring in a robin"
i managed fish cakes and mushy peas. tomorrow im gonna attempt roast beef and yorkshire puddings
thats funny, but now i know u british.. xD
Back to the pavilion with that one Steve
I could only brew a pot of tea with bacon and omelet.
I managed to make two Chicken Cordon Bleus. Granted they were from frozen, but I had to wait a solid 12 minutes for those damn breaded-chicken sandwiches.
Invite me.
Please no rollerino jimmer
The same people who built the Reliant Robin, built the Ford RS200 Evolution. Just think about that for a minute..
Jesus..
The drugs must have kicked in at some stage after that 3 wheeled monstrosity!
Reliant Robin RS200 Evolution?
danm guys... wtf happened between badass rally car and useless tricycle
Also the Scimitar, which wasn't completely terrible.
There is a hillclimb Robin with a bike engine around, definitely doesn't roll over. Does seem to understeer a bit, unsurprisingly....
@Nigel Mansell - the company was Reliant. You can drive 3-wheelers on a motorbike license in the UK - these days it's easier just to get a car license, but once upon a time apparently that wasn't so, so there were a bunch of them. The Bond Bug was much more fun.
learning to drive smoothly:
Japan: AE86 delivering tofu down a mountain
Britain: Reliant Robin around the Nordschleife
I see no difference lol
AMVDawg How to roll the Reliant Robin like Jeremy Clarkson
France: Drive a basket of eggs on the passenger seat through a freshly plowed field without an egg breaking... in a 2CV..
It was actually build to do that. The suspension was specifically designed to do just that.
CBR900RR 1977 ?! WHAT?!
@@illusion86ln WHAT!!???
Nordschleife is in Germany
Deepest / darkest confession from an AC novice: Jimmy B in a Reliant Robin would beat me in a Corvette C7.R.
what about now?
What about now?
What about now
what about now?
what about now?
3-wheeled boi vs. big boi track.
*who will win?*
If you watch at 1.5x speed it looks just like a regular hotlap
2 times is more like it
Just a lot wobblier.
What an emotional ROLLercoaster
I've seen a hillclimb tuned Robin fitted with a bike engine. Frightening.
The one with the wide arches and the boot mouthed Wang?
oh yeah 😂
That's the one. 😁 There are others too.
you got a link to that? sounds amazing
ruclips.net/video/yWZcMlLdfpI/видео.html 😁
Isn't there also a three-wheeler in BeamNG... *hint* *hint* ;)
And the Nordscheife ... ;P
Pigeon. That's the BeamNG 3 wheeler
...put a spoiler on it.
Jackal1810 can he puts a wang on this
Whats a spoiler? Do you mean a wang?
I was thinking training wheels on the front end would be a better mod.
no a splitter
Can I put a Wang on dis????
ARGHOOHHHH!!!
That commentating was something else. Was entertained the whole lap with tears in my eyes. Subbed.
This was so brilliant and I loved watching it through your virtual glasses. The commentary was great, "I can't believe I'm heel-and toeing a Reliant Robin but I guess that's what my channel's come to." Hey, you're the man to do it. No one else is!
Jimmy keeps coming back to the Nurburgring Nordschleife. Reminds me of the #vlogpart2 we never got.
OOF
do a motorized wheel chair lol
Next year and he'd be still on that recording hahah
Howie Howard He should do Colin Furze’s Worlds fastest mobility scooter.
This is the quality content I subbed for. Great Job Jimmy!!
The original engines in the early 747cc Reliants was a sidevalve Austin 7 unit. I believe they then went over to their own 750 and 850cc aluminium engines that had a reputation for being able to take revs with abandon. Know someone who had an 850 with a big carb and exhaust that used to want to pull crazy rpm. Great content as usual bud!
Brings back memories from my childhood. Grandad had a green robin reliant and the funnist thing I was told that he once overtook a jag on the motorway with a full load and the jag owners face was priceless as he overtook
Good to know I am an ascended viewer 🙏 🙏 🙏
As soon as I saw this, it brought a massive smile to my face! Thanks for doing this Jimmer :D
Owned and drove 2 of these on my motorbike licence. Official wording was you could drive a "light tricycle or quadricycle under 650kg" which included both the Reliant Robin (3 wheeler) and Reliant Kitten (4 wheeler)... weight was kept down due to the fibreglass body! Oh the safety :D This classification also included the Caterham 7, meaning I could have driven one with no car driving experience whatsoever.
Fun fact, I replaced an engine in one of my Robins (the estate, fancy!) and lifted the body and chassis off the engine as it was lighter :P
Always good for a laugh and some good times. Thanks Jimmer.
This is quality content I’m here for
Finally some real science ! A universal question answered !
It’s long but entertaining at the same time
I have never heard that phrase before 😐
That's what she said.
haha long boi
just like my penis
This takes me back to the Greaves Invacar Model 70, unkindly referred to a the Spaz Chariot (people were not into PC in those days). Bert Greaves had a disabled cousin called Derry Preston-Cobb who got Bert to build him a rather more interesting version of the three wheeled vehicle for disabled. Derry operated his three wheeler from his wheelchair which was pushed into this vehicle from the back (I doubt it had any sort of anchor). It had no body or roof. Well he was a total hooligan and always getting into trouble with the cops. I think it started with a tuned Villiers engine, but rumour had it that it eventually evolved to a 250cc Griffon scrambler engine, which made it stupid fast considering its total lack of stability. Note: I've just checked Wikipedia and Derry's death-trap was actually the forerunner and inspiration for the Invacar.
When Jimmy rolls, I can just hear Murray's voice saying "and he rolls, and rolls, and rolls..."
One ascended viewer calling for duty!
Such a lovely deathbox! ❤
Sorry Jimmy. Did you know that reliant robin Racing is actually a thing and is marvelously hilarious to watch😂?
Play at 5:50 at 2x speed
3rd Eye Rioichi I just laughed so hard 😂
Lmao😂
Absolutely awesome :DD nice greatings from germany.... near nordschleife :P
Love your videos !
"I can't believe I'm heel-toeing a Reliant Robin."
I'll just leave it there
I mean your doing something right you had me watching a slow 3 wheel car go around a huge track for 17 min lol keep up the good work
5:51 "Roll it through" I guess you did not mean it like that
Yo jimmy good job with the gtsport hosting. Your a natural at it bro. Also there is a guy who did a hayabusa swap and wide body reliant for hill climb events. Its on youtube and its dope.
It was classified as a motorbike for insurance reasons from what i understand. Which made them popular in the north where money was tight, and the weather didn't permit travel by motorbike on most days.
The Reliant Robin was a car for people with a motorcycle licence who couldnt actually pay for a motorbike. It was an easy and cheap way of transportation. Many people like builders bought them... and many died....
I remember back in the 90's there was an elderly neighbor driving one of these Reliant Robin.
Quite the odd sight, he never drove it outside 60 kph zones and most often you could overtake him with a bicycle. It's a funny car.
Isn’t it odd that this vehicle sounds better than most in AC?
But the model looks crap
6:04 save of the year😎😎
The car was actually made for the miners who usually ride 50cc motorbikes to work, wanted something to keep them out of the rain and cold in winter. Because of the size of the engine you didn't need a full drivers licence, only moped one.
Love em or Hate em TG's sketch on this thing was one of the funniest pieces they ever did.
5:52 *Invisible Shingo Bump*
*Cue "I need your love"*
This schould be in the ultimate Multiclass-Races.
Jimmy, this is the funnest video you've made. Next, how about an Isetta or a Tuk-Tuk
There was also a Reliant Fox, which was basically this with four wheels (and it sounds fun as hell), which also got a pickup version, absurdly enough. The Robin was followed up with the also 3-wheeled Rialto, which was in production into the 21st century! Maybe they'll come back one day.
Oh also look up the racing formula "Stadium Supertrucks". It's basically toned-down monster trucks actually raced on tracks... with jumps on the straights because why not? They roll over constantly, too. Try taking one of them round!
@@michaelmartin9022 Jimmy already has in one of his other Nurb videos, plus it's funny as hell lol
We need a nordschleife hotlap fails video
5:51 "saved!" 😂😂😂
You really can not flim flam the Jim Jam
Reminds me of the Daihatsu Midget 3 wheeler from GT4.
Well done. Brilliant car control👏👏
Now I know why Mr bean hated this car
Mr bean had a regal supervan
Not the guy he was always running off the road.
@@Nexuhss yep that blue car lol
After watching the reliant robin rally stage last night I decided to revisit this one. Reliant - What an ironic name for a car! But then the robin part makes sense because it kind of gives the sense of robbing you of something that you can rely on.
Watches this lap while listening Ride of the Valkyries, it had a whole new level of epicness.
Great video as usualy. Thx Jimmer :)
Only the very early Robins were 750cc, most were 850cc. The Robins forte was that you didn't need a car licence to drive one, with it only having 3 wheels, you could drive it on a motorcycle licence. Reliant weren't stupid!! - there was a four wheel version is called the 'Kitten' :o)
You need to post this on Drive Tribe, to challenge someone to do this IRL xD
*Sees name on AC is Bojack* INSTANT LIKE
This time next year, you'll be a millionaire Jimmer.
LMAO at your "nearly roll"
I see what you did there :)
I was a UK career fire officer and I never, ever managed to save a single one of these things. To give an example of how bloody dangerous they are I watched one pull up outside our fire station in Newton Heath, Manchester, UK with smoke issuing from the bonnet. We turned out immediately but by the time we conned PPE and drove out of the appliance room the thing was lost. All that ever remained of these 'plastic pigs' was a triangular steel chassis, three steel wheels, a large blob of aluminium and a set of tubular steel seat frames, plus a large area of melted tarmac and a black cloud drifting into the distance. They were bloody lethal. If it caught fire and you couldn't get out within a very few seconds you were gone!!!
You could only drive it on a motorcycle licence IF reverse gear was removed or blocked off but that was only on the older A1 category. The right to drive it under the new B1 licence was withdrawn until 2012 when it again was classed as a motorcycle under EU law.
The engines in these were brilliant, a full four cylinder 850cc (early models were 750cc) motor built by Coventry Climax, a company with real racing pedigree. 0-60 in 14 seconds. It was not a motorcycle engine. We used the same motor on our portable pumps and they would run continuously for days, pumping from open water and not even stopping during refueling.
I have to respect the AC engine for being able to handle a 3 wheeler so gracefully.
It’s very late but the Toyota Yaris you were speaking about, If it was bright orange then well...that was my dad doing a lap round the ring (at 8:23)
I fricken love your deapan humor.
The Karusell bit was dope as hell!!!!😂😂😂
Nordschleife: H I L L F E Edition
They should have called it the rolliant robin
B-bom tish.
Rolliant Rollin
we seriously need a Reliant Robin Racing Series, the RRRS, with forty Reliant Robins lapping tracks like Goodwood for something like twenty or thirty minutes.
5:53 Save of the century
We need a 100% force feedback challenge of the Reliant Robin at Monaco
It's over Robin! I have the highground!
Sad reliant noises intensifies.
Maybe they should have put short struts on each front corner with casters on them to help the car stay upright. Kind of how the U2 and B-47 aircraft have light wing wheels that basically keep the wings from dragging. In a "racing" crash they'd probably snap off but in normal driving they might help.
Great video. What were they thinking? Was their a national wheel shortage? Why didn't they have two at the front? Madness!
On the bright side. I can’t imaging the front wheel touches the curb much. Looks more like a Sunday drive more than a hot lap. My favourite feature is the interior. Who ever did that left it till 5:30pm on a Friday.
Magic stuff as always, so much concentration just to avoid rolling the thing. BTW - what is that fluorescent dancing thing at the bottom left hand corner during the closing sequence? Does it have a name? I want to give it a name.
Just rewatched the Top Gear Reliant Robin soccer match lol hilarious this car was modeled in
"I'm gonna attack the next corner and then the next corner attacks you"
This car is the metaphore of my life.
Oh what's that Jimmy? We're going for our motorcycle licenses in real life? Deal. Now that you've said it, you have to keep your word.
The Reliant Robin is concrete proof that you need four wheels for a car.
Wait... Reliant Robin and you didn't call yourself "delboy" at the start of the video? Only fools and horses would make THAT mistake.
*"Del Thicc Boi"
Del didn't use a Robin, it was a Reliant Regal ;)
Really? I thought it was the supervan.
Gah! I'm such a plonker!
@@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R It's called regal supervan
One of the funniest top gear episodes ever 😆
So it's you... you are the nemesis of Mr.Bean!!
The only thing this world needs is Reliant Robin on the Isle of Man TT course. I want to see it and I'm willing to pay with nothing, cause nothing will be better than that.
that "don't roll over again" sounded same as JC. So nostalgic feelings
Welcome to the ascended club
Fun fact: they reclassified cars like this as a "small car" so you needed to get a car licence to drive it because people were exploiting being able to drive one on a motorcycle licence, which was cheaper and easier to get than a car licence. Then a couple of years ago they changed a 3-wheel car to be classified as a type of motorcycle because of people exploiting being able to drive motorcycle-style 3-wheelers on a car licence, which these days is cheaper and easier to get than a motorcycle licence.
there was another complication. I think from memory that you could only drive a robin on a motorcycle license if you had the variant that did not have a reverse gear, might have to google that a bit more, but that was the 'word on the street' when I was 17 a really long time ago :)
Is one of Jay Leno’s Tank Cars in the game? Managed a 10:58 on the 24h circuit in GT6. Realize that’s a completely different game, but am curious if you can beat it.
TopBroadbent with Jimmy Clarkson
Great job!
What about doing that lap with a "Hanomag Komissbrot" ?
Any thoughts of leaving the replay cam in the corner for the entire lap? Always nice to have another perspective.
I kind of got the answer to your title question when I saw the length of the video.
Phil Oakey on standby for this one.
Reliant Robin: The ultimate Nordschleife carousel machine.
Not a mechanic or a engineer but, I was wondering if you could add a sliding/rolling weight to these cars and have that help with the stability.
I should be studying right now but here I am watching jimmy toe and heel a reliant robin around nordschleife on slippers
Hello! Why isn't yesterday's stream available for watching? 2018 career round 10 I mean. I can't usually watch them live so I like to watch them on demand later
Probably still processing
Shout out to the 70's slippers!
From a fellow 70's slipper owner:)
Next cars to be attempted around the Nordschleife -
1. Trabant
2. Lada Riva aka a Zhighuli
3. Citreon Ami 6
4. Fiat Panda 1988 1000S
Dude, that's way faster than I expected tbh