Allen Millyard = genius

[Greybeard]

Millyard has a history of creating fantastic home-made machines. I lurve this!!
https://youtu.be/v0aY7sHNAGw

[bikerbob]

Agree there are some really clever people out there a great feat of engineering just to work out all the details that need to be overcome and then go on and build it and get it running on the road.

[Rex]

He's an old friend from way back when of a mate of mine (I don't know him personally) and apparently he's very intuitive when he works. Apparently when they were young as a favour to someone he installed a CD200 engine in a Suzuki trail bike pretty much in a day, and built a Honda C50 V-twin ie 100cc.
Clever bloke.

[RDfella]

Is that the Vulcan? Years ago I read about a chap creating a vee twin Velocette that he called the Vulcan - it was that article which started me off building my first (BSA based) vee twin.

[BigJim]

Wish he lived next door to me!

[berger]

big jim I wish I had done what my older brother did and spent lots of time in my dads workshop watching and learning---- I couldn't keep out of the pub, dad was good he used to have a coke forge when he was 18 and at that time he was working at bryon donkin engineers. he used to make engines for model boats casting and machining everything. I still have a small con rod from one. he even made the carbs and jets!!!!! and I just got better at drinking beer

[Swarfcut]

  Allen Millyard's skill sorting a Triumph Motor was featured on yesterday's Find It, Fix It, Drive It, a new series in which the ever popular? Henry Cole continues in the usual style, of doing up tat for a profit. Allen's workshop had the tidy ambience we dream of, and he came over as a very modest fella, considering his engineering creations.  Like Jim said, handy to have next door.

 The episode was very entertaining, and good to see some very sensible and balanced comment from the excellent Mr Millyard...(who should get his own series) in contrast to the unbridled enthusiasm of the main presenter.

 Still, that's showbiz, and I confess to liking Henry Cole, so please don't black ball me from the Forum.  Shown on UK Channel More4, 27/3/19, 9PM.

 bergs, Bryan Donkin made rather big valves, the sort of turn the big wheel to close that 4 foot pipe type, I seem to remember. I can just picture your old fella standing at the end of the pour with a lost wax pattern in the box ready for a few spoons of molten, after the half ton valve body had been cast. Happy days, a perk from work.

 Swarfy.

 

[berger]

swarfy when I was at coking plant I had to pull on those big wheel valves with two  or 3 more well built men to open and close them on 4 ft wide and wider gas mains. some of them were fixed vertical with access by steel ladders and platforms, others horizontal with a connecting bar about 25ft long and very large bevel gears ,[ much more humungus than those on a ducati] I can remember going round with a bucket of oil and endlessly filling the oil can to lube the stems and gears to make life a bit easier on the ones that didn't get much use, either always open or shut unless something had to be by passed and work done. these were the ones that need 3 or 4 men on the wheel. the ones used every day were dangerous when shutting them , you had to stop the wheel from spinning as the spade got near the seat otherwise they would jam shut!!! some could shut themselves but were very hard work to open with the weight of those spades and the wheel had to be wired! but these were used every day 3 times a day when steaming out the gas coolers. after nearly 40yrs of plant operation not one had been changed but operators had to show trainees how to just back them off the seat to stop them jamming weather fully closed or open. I remember new style management buying cheapo steam valves that didn't last two weeks. those old donkins would still be perfect today. o memories

[Minto]

Saw an interview recently with him, discussing his Viper bike. That thing is just nuts. He just seems like a very unassuming very very clever bloke. I wonder if he’d take a look at the sludge trap on my plunger???
On another note, up at the food stop at Quatt near Bridgnorth last year, a chap pulled up on a Velocette V twin, not the same one, but very nicely done. I’ve got a couple of pics of it but can’t post them cos I’m crap. 🙁

[Rex]

I thought that Mr Millyard looked uncomfortably out-of-place in that Find it etc programme.
Strange thing is that I detest choppers but I found their Uncle Bunt build was almost attractive. I hope that it's not some mid-life crisis where I'm starting to find metalflake paint and ludicrous frame geometrics to be strangely appealing...

[Greybeard]

Viper. FFS!
https://youtu.be/ANwiN2jAa3s

[Angus]

Had to post this. Made by our clubs resident genius. He made the whole this even the spokes & nipples, the only thing he could not do was make working carbs, but he says it would run if you fitted model aeroplane carbs 

[Greybeard]

Had to post this. Made by our clubs resident genius. He made the whole this even the spokes & nipples, the only thing he could not do was make working carbs, but he says it would run if you fitted model aeroplane carbs 

Wow!

[duTch]

 

.....but he says it would run if you fitted model aeroplane carbs  ....

 Well it did somethin', 'coz it's stuck to the ceiling down here.....

[Minto]

That’s some proper skills that is!