Hello from Tunbridge wells

[Involute]

Why?
We moved from St Albans to Yorkshire for more space/bigger house (less money) and pies.
Where is the CNC stuff, so we can all jump on your man and his machines for Stratos bits

Where you at? I was in Yarm, and or Hutton Rudby.

I would have gladly stayed in Yorkshire, it’s where I’m from, and where I worked, we already had the house in Tunbridge wells, so when I retired we decided to sell one of them, my missus, son and daughter in law, are Theatrical Music writers and producers, they need to be within easy reach of London for work etc etc,

Toy Soldier Productions (unapologetically promoted )
https://www.toysoldierproductions.com/productions-ladym
this is the latest production, Lady-M, it’s currently on in Shanghai, for 3 years, and they are in discussions with a view to putting the show on in other llocations.


Anyhow we have a ton of room here, just not a big workshop / garage

As for the CNC stuff for your car! send me pics of what you need, or a sketch on a fag packet or whatever, I’ll convert it to CAD FOC and ask Neil if he wants to do it, however his priority will always be the TT bike stuff, we never advertised what we did, being a small specialist we had more than enough to do, but like I said, I am willing to do CAD drawings for free, especially while my ankles like it is (9 months to go, it’s a long painful story)
I can also do the CNC programming and you can take that and or the CAD Models to your friendly local machine shop, I’m ok with that, all I need is what type of machines they have.
I actually enjoy that aspect of the process and it’s better than sitting in front of the telly watching crap

Shaun

[Involute]

Here?s a couple of more pics of the CNC stuff
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Top images was taken when I was making the exhaust.





other than the race bike, all at home, last pic is at the 2019 Manx GP, Classic Superbike race.

i don’t understand why some of the pics didn’t show so I reposted some

[LPH_UK]

Where you at? I was in Yarm, and or Hutton Rudby.

As for the CNC stuff for your car! send me pics of what you need, or a sketch on a fag packet or whatever, I’ll convert it to CAD FOC and ask Neil if he wants to do it, however his priority will always be the TT bike stuff, we never advertised what we did, being a small specialist we had more than enough to do, but like I said, I am willing to do CAD drawings for free, especially while my ankles like it is (9 months to go, it’s a long painful story)
I can also do the CNC programming and you can take that and or the CAD Models to your friendly local machine shop, I’m ok with that, all I need is what type of machines they have.
I actually enjoy that aspect of the process and it’s better than sitting in front of the telly watching crap

Shaun

Oh God! I think you might regret me reading that

[hollytree]

Thanks. I am now in Skipton.
I always wanted to Live in Tunbridge Wells as I was a v.keen rock climber and when living in S London used to spend many many days at Harrisons and Bowles Rocks. When I hit the ground in2017 and broke my leg in 6 places, my wife finally ended my climbing activities.

As far as CNC, thanks for the offer, but my car is finished (apart from when it is not working!!) and what you have described is over my head, though I bet it means stuff to some others on here.
Good luck with the build and the bikes look brilliant

[Involute]

The offer stands for others, I doubt I’ll get inundated, it looks to me like you lot have good suppliers for what you need

[Involute]

This thread seems to be getting a lot of traffic all of a sudden, I hope it’s not a bad thing for the site!
I don’t know if it’s the bikes or the car chassis pics?

After my ankle is fixed and I get back into it, I could continue to post updates on the car if it’s not a distraction from what is a Stratos forum??.

Perhaps an administrator could comment.

if it’s the bikes when I used to ride them pre ankle injury, coming back to one of them after fish n chips in Whitby or wherever, it was always easy to find them because of the crowds of people discussing them, and not always bikers weirdly.
I wish I had a pound for every time some turned the steering on the centre hub bike, then scratched their head in puzzlement .

I am considering selling two of them (the black ones) because they are now just gathering dust which is a shame

Shaun

[Normb666]

Don't worry, Shaun, you keep posting all that interesting stuff, cos it gives this lot something else to goggle at besides boring ole Strat pix

[Involute]

It seems people are very interested in all this bike/car/cad malarkey, so here?s some more cad stuff of the bikes, for the hub centre steering I created a full 3d model of the whole bike before commencing any fabrication or machining.
SNT was me and two friends when we competed in the TT amongst others racing, SNT is now run by (N) Neil on his own myself and Tony both now retired, Neil concentrating on TT race bike preparation etc.

[Involute]

This is the XR69 we campaigned in 2019 in the classic superbike race at the ManxGP / Festival of speed on the Isle of Man




the last one is the chassis in its jig