Rick spends the festive break making further progress on his Project Bradbury. It exercises his ingenuity and tool-making ability, but doesn’t give him a very merry Christmas...

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Our glorious Harris Magnum 2 is back, with its loom completed and wiring finalised by electrical wizard Ferret. There’s every danger Alan might be riding it, come the spring

One howls and buzzes, and the other snorts and hammers. In both cases, you make them sing their song by way of a deliciously mechanical manual gearbox. These truly are two of the most exciting powertr

I’m on the edge of a seaside town, confronting sand. Fine sand, suitable for making sandcastles with very precise detailing. The sand, though, has come not from a beach near Hastings (the Sussex town

I SUCCUMBED. OR, as younger people say, I caved. I’d been looking at my Phantom’s bodywork (the victim of a blow-over respray prior to my renewed ownership, after a white ‘wrap’ was removed) and alway