When your son was test riding recumbents here about a year ago he let
me test drive his Sparrow. I took it out to the business park at Bay
Farm Island and got it up to an indicated 55 mph. Driving around town
in Alameda it got about as many looks as I do riding my trikes so I
was used to that aspect. The Sparrow had a very velomobile like feel
to it. For a motor vehicle though the one person capacity and very
limited cargo capacity and range seemed impractical. I've driven a
couple other electric vehicles that had much higher cargo and
passenger capacities and seemed more like real cars. I'm glad your son
was able to sell his interest in the Sparrow, hopefully before having
to make an expensive investment in replacement batteries.

Zach Kaplan

Carol Cohen wrote in message ...
I must admit my own wacko son sold his half ownership of his Corbin Sparrow
last year. Not that there was anything wrong with driving a single-person
purple cartoon around the Bay area.

C.C.

From: "Joshua Goldberg"
Organization: Bell Sympatico
Newsgroups: alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 08:47:16 -0400
Subject: and sponsored by.....

I thought Corbin Motors was a father & son operation, with the father
retaining the original (upolstery) business as a seperate entity.
If I was the father and my son came to me and said...Gee Dad I have this
really good idea, how about I design a Clown Car and slap a Harley Davidson
engine in it and for another model I fill it with 12 12V batteries and slap
an electric motor in it. As the father I would most certainly seperate my
upolstery business from my wacko son.
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"John Riley" wrote in message
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(Sorry about the blank post. I hit the wrong key.)

I think maybe Corbin _motors_ went broke, but I think the seat business
is seperate. Burley's still have corbin seat bases.

John Riley



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