Allen Millyard

[Skub]

The man has some set of hands for sure.



Link to a vid of a 5 litre V twin built from aircraft parts. Some monster rumble.

https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/vid ... ubQWEQ4bRI

[KungFooBob]

Someone on Friendface was giving him grief about the direction of the cooling fins. The heads are from a radial aircraft engine, in a bike they sit 90 degrees from the direction of travel they would have in the plane.

He told them it didn't overheat so it didn't bother him.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I knew someone who worked with him at Aldermarston, said he was a nice bloke, he does seem to attract sycophantic fan boys and rabid haters, personally I don't think he's done much that hasn't been done before, but there's nothing wrong with that.

[DefTrap]

It's the way that he seems to do all of it from a single garage at home with, what seems to be, quite limited tooling.
Makes the BadObsession boys look like awful hacks.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It's the way that he seems to do all of it from a single garage at home with, what seems to be, quite limited tooling.
Makes the BadObsession boys look like awful hacks.

I've no idea what tools are in his shed, but I assume he was well trained at Aldermarston, the person I knew who worked there made superbly machined parts ( he was allowed to make them at work as "practice pieces" ) so I assume Mr Millyard was trained to a similar level, so should be capable of very good work, in the end it's cutting, shaping and welding metal to a high standard.

[Mr. Dazzle]

The thing that impresses me is those fins, made on a piece of kit that predates CNC - and in fact probably computers in general - by a year or two!

The bit where the two sets meet at 90' is pretty impressive.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I used to make air cooled lawn mower engines, obviously much simpler that that aero engine, the heads were cast and we cleaned up any crappy casting with a file, the only parts that required specialist tooling were the crank and the camshaft, apart from the fasteners, pistons and rings (made by Hepolite) all of the engine was made in house in either Derby or Stowmarket.

[dern]

His youtube videos are pretty good if you skip the bits about cake.

[Whysub]

Never seen anyone cut engine cases with a normal hacksaw with such precision as he does.

Making his Honda 250 six cylinder replica using the plans from a scale model of the Honda racing bike was something I'd not seen before.

Can I also suggest looking at the video he did of the mountain bike he built? Successful in that his son won a few races on it, with very clever innovations.

[crust]

His engineering skills are amazing. All his bikes look like they are factory models, no brown seats or big open areas.

Even more impressive is the miles he puts on them, they are no garage or trailer queens, if he's seen somewhere he's ridden there (except for the Honda six, thats a race replica).
He was at Prescott Hill climb with his son and both were on his bikes, wheel spinning and wheelieing off the line, no holding back.

[KungFooBob]

He came on his Viper bike to watch me* race at Castle Combe.




* well I was racing and I'm sure he would have seen me.

[JackyJoll]

and rabid haters

The “Yeah, but…” people.

[dern]

I've seen him a couple of time ride past our house as he lives not far from here.

I think he's mates with Henry Cole as he seems to go over his with engines to test in some of the videos. I want to like Henry's video's as his enthusiasm is clear. Being something on an introvert though means that him being an in your face 'personality' gives me the heebie jeebies. I like it when he dials it back a bit though.