Cedric leans into a left hander.
Photo: © Paul Blezard

Following Cedric in his streamliner was an entertaining experience, especially when he had to stop at a junction and put his bare feet down!
Photo: © Blez on board his Tmax, August 2009

Paul Blez (in white MonoTracer shirt) extols the virtues of Yamaha's Mk3 Tmax to Craig Vetter, Cedric Lynch and Arvind Rabadia. Luton, Aug 09.

Craig has a very careful ride in Cedric's machine, not daring to put his feet in, while Cedric runs alongside in bare feet!
Photo: © Paul Blezard

Craig Vetter met Cedric Lynch and Arvind Rabadia at Paul Compton's house in Luton in August 09.
Here Cedric sits in his electric streamliner while Craig holds the door open.
Photo: © Paul Blezard

This is Bristol. The San franscisco of Europe.

You don't get this at ordinary Bike shows.
Note unfortunate feature of Canon Ixus, it has a brain and decided that full colour was too much for these pictures.

Usual Suspects.

We were all completely appalled that we didn't get awards for Best Engineering, Best Classic and best Roadster.

Again

S'OK. It's not a motorcycle...

If the 'carved foam' technique is to be used for the bodywork, as will happen next here, foam blocking can also be used to simplify sheet GRP fabrications. Here, a foam block has been glued to the upper and lower sheets that form the rear light mounts (Ford Ka units). Later GRP can be laid onto it to form a very strong box that would be difficult to make from sheets

When flat sheets of flat GRP or with right angled edges as seen below are not enough, several sheets can be joined together with resin and glass laid into the joins to 'weld' the assembly together.

The assembly needs to be held together firmly enough to maintain the right shape while the strips of glass are laid up, but in a way that will not intrude on the finished part.

Sheets of GRP are normally joined up with the 'good' surfaces (facing the table when laid up) outboard and the rough surface is used for the jointing layup. To avoid resin running onto the good surfaces, that may be finished surfaces, lay a strip of masking tape along the join.

The surfaces that are to be laid up onto MUST be cut back to 'Grey' with all cured surfaces (Glossy) cut away. This ensures a good bond when resin is laid "Wet on Dry". (Work "Wet on Wet" if possible) 40 or 60 grit "production paper" is normally used for this

Several pieces of GRP can be joined together using this technique