The way he casually tips some petrol into the manifolds and jumps starts it to see if it fires up. Lol...
Will be interesting to see whether he gets it running nicely! Lots of electronic stuff I’m sure to do to get it half rideable, one thing about Alan is that he seems more mechanical than Electrical, so will be interested in the dept he goes to there. That said been some of the work he’s done getting the throttle cylinders to fit nicely and seal etc will help. I don’t know if I could put this amount of work in though unless it was a bike I was keeping! Unless he literally is charging by the hour
I must say that as rough as some parts of the nemesis have been I am well impressed in some of the engineering ideas present on the bike. Maybe it was all overkill for the job in hand but that headstock/yoke arrangement is fascinating.
I'm sure he has quoted (or was offered) a flat rate for the project. I think it would be almost impossible to do this on an hour-by-hour basis...
surely by the same token a flat rate would be madness as well, I mean even take the hours spent to machine down the 5 bolts for the headstock
I guess it depends on the figure...don't forget he is a super pro and hence a damn sight faster than your average workshop dude.
He will also be getting YouTube revenue from the videos so maybe he can do it cheap for them on that basis. I also think he just loves doing unusual stuff like this, who else can say they rebuilt a Nemesis?
My guess is that Mr Millyard has mobs of people beseiging his door offering him loads of money for the bikes he has built, for work they want him to do, for his videos and TV work, and for personal appearances. Small chance he will starve.
I like the work he does but have to admit I mute the video and have the subtitles on, there can be a charm to non professionally produced content but the cakes, hedgehogs and ticking clock get on my nerves a bit
If I’m not confused by a recent concussion I believe a chap called Al Melling designed the engine for the Nemisis & maybe other bits of it. He also designed aspects of the 1st oil cooled GSXR engine (cylinder head valve gear ?) as well as design work on a number of other engines such as 1st Dodge viper engine, TVR AJP V8 & TVR Speed-6 straight 6 & F1 engine design work.
A tangent to the Nemesis is that someone is also restoring the Norton Manx 750cc bike which was being developed alongside the Nemesis. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/6SWeHMcGHf2DZW8G/?mibextid=UalRPS
I too find the constant sidestepping to view a pigeon or other wildlife in his garden or yet another foray into his kitchen to see what cakes his wife has made, a bit lame. Have to say up close and personal, the Nemesis looks to have been assembled from the factory in the dark. Poorly finished castings, some very Heath Robinson assemblies and overall pretty underwhelming, heavy and poorly engineered. I had envisaged it to be a lot more sophisticated in it's execution.
I'll just leave this here.... https://www.motorcycle.com/features/featuresdrysdale-v8-1000-a-closer-look-html.html
