Test drive in an Atom
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OK.
Their demo is the supercharged model. Described as having 300bhp.
Whether it has or not is immaterial because it is seriously quick. Having said that the standard 245bhp will be seriously quick as well.
It has massive mechanical grip. Braking with the optional Alcon brakes all round matches the performance. Unless I could get some traffic between my bike and it, it would beat my bike - either of them - from A to B because it can hammer harder into the corners and can carry more corner speed.
The road was dry. You would have to be very careful in the wet unless you had the right tyres. Even then your right foot would have to exercise discretion.
Build quality looked exemplary, particularly the chassis welds.
There are no frills. What you can see is what you get.
It is as close to a bike as any 4 wheel vehicle I can imagine.
I loved it.
Their demo is the supercharged model. Described as having 300bhp.
Whether it has or not is immaterial because it is seriously quick. Having said that the standard 245bhp will be seriously quick as well.
It has massive mechanical grip. Braking with the optional Alcon brakes all round matches the performance. Unless I could get some traffic between my bike and it, it would beat my bike - either of them - from A to B because it can hammer harder into the corners and can carry more corner speed.
The road was dry. You would have to be very careful in the wet unless you had the right tyres. Even then your right foot would have to exercise discretion.
Build quality looked exemplary, particularly the chassis welds.
There are no frills. What you can see is what you get.
It is as close to a bike as any 4 wheel vehicle I can imagine.
I loved it.
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My K1300 will accelerate better but unless I can see right through the corner I have to enter it at a speed where I can stop within what I can see. In a car - any car assuming the brakes are OK - I can go in faster.
Now UK traffic being what it is, if I can get past in traffic, I will stay ahead but if an Atom got ahead of me I would probably have to ride outside my personal safety envelope to get back ahead, unless traffic intervened.
He drove out on the road I came in to Crewkerne on. I would have touched 80/85 on the way in. He was touching 100+. OK he knew the road but even so I'd have been hard pushed to match him.
My K1300 will accelerate better but unless I can see right through the corner I have to enter it at a speed where I can stop within what I can see. In a car - any car assuming the brakes are OK - I can go in faster.
Now UK traffic being what it is, if I can get past in traffic, I will stay ahead but if an Atom got ahead of me I would probably have to ride outside my personal safety envelope to get back ahead, unless traffic intervened.
He drove out on the road I came in to Crewkerne on. I would have touched 80/85 on the way in. He was touching 100+. OK he knew the road but even so I'd have been hard pushed to match him.
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That's very true.
I could find that I could catch bikers in corners with the S2000, though. Despite its reputation for bumpsteer, it's nowhere near as dangerous as a sportsbike on crappy Herts corners.
The only drawback I see with the Atom (practical considerations aside) is that you cannot squeeze past dawdlers like any bike.
Certainly looks a lot more thrilling than an some over-tuned repbox. Only time I saw one was on a trackday & the guy was very new to it & so wasn't really mucj of a challenge.
Think we spent a lot of the day trying to make his brake lights work...
I could find that I could catch bikers in corners with the S2000, though. Despite its reputation for bumpsteer, it's nowhere near as dangerous as a sportsbike on crappy Herts corners.
The only drawback I see with the Atom (practical considerations aside) is that you cannot squeeze past dawdlers like any bike.
Certainly looks a lot more thrilling than an some over-tuned repbox. Only time I saw one was on a trackday & the guy was very new to it & so wasn't really mucj of a challenge.
Think we spent a lot of the day trying to make his brake lights work...
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That's very true.
I could find that I could catch bikers in corners with the S2000, though. Despite its reputation for bumpsteer, it's nowhere near as dangerous as a sportsbike on crappy Herts corners.
The only drawback I see with the Atom (practical considerations aside) is that you cannot squeeze past dawdlers like any bike.
I could find that I could catch bikers in corners with the S2000, though. Despite its reputation for bumpsteer, it's nowhere near as dangerous as a sportsbike on crappy Herts corners.
The only drawback I see with the Atom (practical considerations aside) is that you cannot squeeze past dawdlers like any bike.
Certainly the Atom would be as much use as a chocolate teapot in traffic on a Bank Holiday weekend but you don't need much of a gap to nip past the odd car.
Anyway I was sufficiently impressed to take the plunge. Delivery some time in 2013 - 9 to 12 months was the quote which gives me plenty of time to earn enough to pay for it.
