French paper on the Atom [pics inside]

[Gilou]

http://news.caradisiac.com/Photos-du-jour-Ariel-Atom-789

photos of my Atom taken by a paparazzo 

[Gilou]

[img width=800 height=534]http://news-images.caradisiac.com/IMG/j ... M_-_12.jpg[/img]

[Bruce Fielding]

Why have they made your face all blurry?

[ross]

[quote="Bruce Fielding"]
Why have they made your face all blurry?
[/quote]

I thought all French people's faces were like that...all that cheese and wine.

[Alec]

I see your passenger is wearing the Roof Boxer and you are wearing the newer Boxer V.

Can you get the Iridium visors for these easily in the motorbike shops over there as they are proving to be difficult to obtain over here?

[Gilou]

yes you can easily by all sorts of visors here; when I bought the helmets, I took several colours, and a "mirror", which is   

I didn't try to see on the web....perhaps they're possible to get .....

[Alec]

I already have the Iridium visor, which is probably what you call the "mirror" visor, but it's getting pitted with stone chips and such like so needs replacing.

They are not legal in the UK so the local motorbike shop has to get them 'under the counter' from the Roof representative but there's a new one for the area it's proving difficult.

Is this what your "mirror" visor looks like?

[Driver]

{in Homer voice}

Hmm.... Iridium Visor....

[Alec]

I'm still trying to get them Ken and if I do I'll try to get one over to you. 

[Driver]

All good things in their own time. It's a philosophy I've come to adopt. Haven't had the opportunity to even use my Roof V since AtomFest. I was just loving the look. Every time I see the Iridium it just emphasis on how cool they are to me.

[Gilou]

no this pic is not my mirror;
mine is ........like a real mirror !!!!!!!  (and it's very pitted too, so I don't use it anymore)

[wisp]

Did anyone notice the link for an Atom for 6400 euro on the same page. 

Offrez vous une Ariel Atom pour 6400 euros !!!!

[Alec]

[quote="Gilou"]
no this pic is not my mirror;
mine is ........like a real mirror !!!!!!!  (and it's very pitted too, so I don't use it anymore)
[/quote]

The daft thing is that I have an Iridium visor on my Roof Roadster, which I use for riding my bike, and it never gets pitted.

Even after years of constant use, which included a 3,500 mile trip to the Arctic Circle returning through Northern France to take in the Normandy Beaches, followed by a trip to Auschwitz the year after, there was no pitting at all. In total the visor lasted for over 45,000 miles of riding without pitting and then someone knocked my helmet off a table and it landed straight on the visor and cracked it.

In the Atom the visor is being hit with grit and stones all the time so doesn't last anywhere near as long.  :td:

I must get over to France, if they can be bought easily there, and bring some back with me.

[Alec]

[quote="wisp"]
Did anyone notice the link for an Atom for 6400 euro on the same page. 

Offrez vous une Ariel Atom pour 6400 euros !!!!

[/quote]

I think that you'll find it's a Chinese attempt at an Atom Look-a-Like.

[wisp]

Alec. Did you really have to put a picture up? Now you've made me as well.