Millyard - Honda SS100 V Twins, riding, maintenance and tips
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- In this video I will be riding my 2nd and 3rd 99cc Honda SS100 V Twin's talk a little about how i made them, and carry out some basic maintenance with my usual wildlife and cooking and other interludes. My first SS100 is in the Barber Museum Birmingham Alabama USA and my third SS100 is in the Sammy miller Museum in the New Forrest UK
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I am now an old man, over 84 years old, who spent my younger days working for the British Navy, in industry and higher education. I covered numerous court investigations, dealt with a many people where their tool was their voice, as judges magistrates, lawyers, who thought that they could explain any situation, or university professors who thought they were masters in language use,
Mr Allen Millyard, I just found your video, as I was looking for information about my 1970 Honda C70. While I fully appreciated your engineering talents, I was utterly impressed with your capacity in how you explain what you are doing in such a stunning, sequential and such a clear and fluent manner, covering all the necessary detail.
I admired the manner in which you use your sense of humour, in that you fill the spaces between the engineering comments
with talking about the behaviour of the birds and the hedgehogs, and then, the crochet woven by your wife, describing how the Yarn comes in, and how the hook has a handle, shank between the handle and hook head, and hook head, the part that grabs the yarn. ( my wife does it too)
Last but not least, I admired your expertise in the kitchen, where you give fine detail of the recipe and how the cooking time in the oven will permit you a 30 minute spin on your wonderful, ingenious motorbike creations.
Sir, I think it is very fitting to heartily congratulate you and your wife, for your wisdom, teamwork, your intelligence, your hard work and your spirit in living a full life. The remarkable manner in which you handle engineering logic and language use, together with the human and social talents of you and your wife is absolutely remarkable. Well done and all the best, Thank you for uploading your videos which I am finding are so remarkable, of very high standards in their presentation and sense of humour. Brilliant in every manner. Thank you.
From an island on the other side of the world, 70 miles South of Sicily, in the Mediterranean.
I would love it if Tracey has a cooking channel and while the brownies were in the oven, nipped out for a spin on one of the SS100's. "I've just put the brownies in to bake and noticed Alan's been outside fettling one of the SS100's. While he's not looking, I just had a quick blat round the block."
That blowlamp would make a good creme brulee sugar crust!
"And those brownies come out so nice, I'm well pleased"
"And those brownies come out so nice, I'm well pleased"
I did notice that when Allen returned with the first bike, the keys were still swinging in the ignition on the second bike so maybe she did . . . ?
🤔
That would be utterly superb!
One of the most lovable things about Allen is how he says something is, "puhfect", especially if it is something no mortal man but him can do. "I used dental floss to cut through the engine block, and it worked just puhfect."
Yes but the dental’ tools are so expensive .also the old ones
Yes
Mechanical masterpieces at a different level far exceeding what most folks in their sheds can achieve. Even takes time to include interesting Wildlife content and bake a cake or two .. too. One of the most enjoyable channels on the whole TH-cam output.
Your V-twins run so smoothly that it's hard to believe that they're not factory built. Absolutely flawless and truly unique! Love your wife's cupcakes and brownies 😋. Thank you so much for your time and videos.
In spite of the mechanical genius involved in the big multi-cylinder bikes, this build is my favorite.
Not only are you a mechanical wizard, but also quite talented at making videos. I love your camera work! Great angles and varied shots!
Thank you
Wildlife, cooking brownies and two amazing Hondas. This is TH-cam gold. Thanks for sharing.
Nothing better than more millyard! Love these Hondas Allen, beautiful
Perfect Sunday viewing.
Oh wow, when I clicked on this vid I had no idea of the journey you would take me on. 37 yrs ago I was 14 yrs old and had been daydreaming about motorcycles for years, my dad came home from work one day with a load of boxes and inside was a stripped 1976 Yamaha rs100 that he bought for 25 quid, under his instruction I put that bike together making gaskets from cardboard and making a Woodruff key from a washer that happened to be the correct thickness 😆.
Watching you work took me right back to that time in the council garage with my dad, cheers and all the best. 👍😁❤️🇬🇧
Yep, reminded me of my brother bringing home a 50cc Ital Jet: bread loaf tank, clip ons, silver with red stripes- felt like riding a miniature MV Augusta! All for $50 and new piston rings!
@@jeffzekas memories can be awesome sometimes 👍
I have little to no knowledge or experience with these machines but i could listen and watch you show us about them all day
Love the tight country lane riding. Looks like you're flying along.
Tracy is a champ mate, good on her for letting you put your bike stuff on her baking channel ! Love Steve from New Zealand
Every vid you make is a classic, your workmanship, is sublime, Tracey seems to be a dab hand with the oven as well
I just think small motorcycles are so much fun! I sometimes think people feel I am silly liking these motorcycles so much, so Allen Millard liking these bicycles as well gives me so much pride! Allen aren’t those small Honda motorcycle engines so wonderfulI? So simple but so reliable, I can’t get enough of them!
Can't say enough great things about Allen and his work, and, genuinely, I'm so glad he's taken to TH-cam to share all of this. I'll have to check out that Barber Museum someday to see some of his creations in the flesh!
There are 4 bikes my V12 V8 and five cyl Kawasaki’s and the first SS100
@@AllenMillyard Allen, I'm confused as to why you put a v 12 motorcycle in a museum. I'd use it as a daily rider.
I must ask Allen why in an American museum 👍
@@andrewjames7616 they love ther gas guzzlers over there don't they. The bigger the better? I'd certainly stair at it endlessly just thinking about how absurd a v12 in a motorcycle actually is. Its crazy! Just think with the right gearing, that thing would be literaly flying!
I live in Montreal, Canada, and plan to travel there this summer to visit the museum and see Allen’s bikes…if COVID allows.
As a teen I thought out the idea, to tune a moped, so it couldn't be seen by the police. In Denmark they were only allowed to 1 hp and 30 kmh. The idea was to make blade valve under the motor, and hide the extra carb in the frame. The intake would be long, but since it wasn't designed to run on that carb alone, I didn't think, the length would be a problem.
Converting to 90cc would make it fly Borge (if it was an SS50)
@@bsimpson6204 True (even though it didn't have the disc intake - or wtf it was called) right into the cop car, resulting in modification fines and tax fines, and confiscated parts, and it wouldn't be fun(cool) to befaster than all the other mopeds, being a motorcycle and that being like comiting a Lance Armstrong. Back then there were rumors of 60 cc cylinders, but nobody ever saw one irl.
Both my brother and a school friend had Gilera 50cc mopeds, at the time Gilera made a very similar motorcycle. They changed the barrel and piston from the motorcycle to their mopeds. More or less doubled the power.
I have said before, these are my favourite Millyards, they look like they rolled out of the factory like this.
I love them too, but my fave is his Velo v twin.
We love millyard!
"...just perfect" as are all your delightful and informative vids.
I've found meself enjoying your stuff more and more
w/ each viewing. Thanx so very much, Allen and
Cheerios (not the breakfast cereal ug)
Allen, as usual, you demonstrate to us mere humans your mechanical wizardry… top engineer my friend! Bravo and thanks for sharing your unbelievable creations.
What a difference in 500 miles makes to a sweet engine. The 2nd bike was a lovely plethora of smoothly moving part in sync.
Again, thanks for sharing your classic collection. All the best.
The second one seemed pretty nippy.
I had a burgundy-ish colour ss50 when I was 16, HEP 613N reg plate, my mates knicknamed it "the Heap" I loved that little bike
Amazing! I had one of these when i whas a young lad. 70cc, standard head, special piston and a racing camshaft. That thing left any two stoke behind and never let me down.
Haha, good work. I had a 5 speed SS50 when I was 16, and I put a C70 barrel and piston on it with the carb from a CB100 and a Jock Kerr megaphone pipe. I concur, I used to ride around looking for FS1Es and AP50s, and would, as you say, leave them standing, much to their surprise 😄 It was good for 70 mph, if the speedo was to be believed! On those brakes and that frame 🤭 good times...
@@daveatkinson644 those where good bikes
Sir Allen! You are my perfect happy retired life. Perfect with the bikes & the pets around.
Another excellent video Allen. An eclectic mix of wildlife, cooking and motorbikes, all edited together nicely.
Wow - bikes, birds, brownies and booze (Charlie). Just perfect Allen! 😁
I say this all the time every video but I have such respect for Allen. He is a living legend honestly. I would give my right arm to be able to buy one of those 200cc bike. They are my dream bikes. The small displacement Hondas. Great video once again!
Yesterday I went to the Barber motorsports museum near Leeds in Alabama USA to see hundreds of bikes. What a fantastic day it was, I paid for the guided tour they offer which includes a look through the basement restoration area. But they cancelled the tour....But......they gave me a complete refund, so I had an almost 8hr day for Free. yeah Free. Of all the bikes in the museum there, the one's I most wanted to see were Allen Millyard's Frankenstein creations. Being a British Expat. I had to lay eyes on Allen's work. Yehh strange I came across this Honda ss100 video today :) after seeing his first ss100 build yesterday and the Kawasaki v12 which looked amazing and the other 2 bikes. They are up top on the 5th floor overlooking the race track outside which had a porche race car day happening. What a Fantastic day I had. Your bikes are being very well looked after Allen, what great work you do. I'm going to try and post a video on TH-cam of yesterday sometime, biker nuts like myself really need to see this museum, I'm thinking it must be the largest on planet earth. Ohh and not forgetting all the Lotus race cars there also.
Thank you
Oh my word... when the green neutral light clicked on I was 16 years old again for a few seconds.
Funny, I turned 13.
me too - lime green SS50 ZB2
16 years old, I parked my SS50 outside the local motorcycle dealer and looked at the Ducati 750SS in the window and looked back at my bike and thought to myself, how nice it would be if you could graft on another cylinder just like a mini Ducati
ive got a few 160cc ducati single engines in the shop, ive always thought i should carve them up into a vee twin of 320cc. with a pressed up crank, like these hondas it should be acheivable
A very similar scenario 16 years old standing outside Noel Orrs in Belfast dribbling over and licking his shop window looking at a Ducati 750SS and a Moto Guzzi V7 where I differ is the last thing on my mind was grafting a cylinder to my SS50 but how on earth was I gonna get one of those 2 bikes, there wasn't a Japanese bike on the market would've got a look in.
Me too - outside Freddie Frith's in Grimsby drooling at a yellow 750SS & a sunburst BMW R90 (I think), whilst sitting on my little SS50ZB2.
I would feel rich with just one of those V-twins, but three: MAN!
Thanks for sharing your truly amazing work. 👍
Well done . Thank you for posting. I dropped a drain plug on a 90cc Honda . I ended up running it to lockup . Later I managed to free it up , added oil and it ran well smoking all the way to a holed piston . I replaced the jug , piston , rings , and piston pin with random used parts including rings I found on the shop floor . It ran well and only smoked when warmed up . I sold it immediately to a fellow that had previously sold me a similar bike a few years earlier that ended up needing rebuilt even though he claimed it was in top shape . He told me he had a trail 90 before and was looking to get another , he didn't recognize me when he came to look at it . He called me the next day complaining about the bike smoking after it warmed up and how I told him it was in top shape . It was then I told him that I was the guy he sold the nice looking , clapped out trail 90 to a few years back . Cheers
Allen Millyard, humble legend.
I got my Charlie Weaver back in 1965 as a birthday present. He's old! Smoke came out of his ears, his face turned red, and his lips puckered up during his routine. My dad bought a 1965 Honda Trail 90 and It was soon my favorite vehicle and I put on 900 miles on it in our driveway and front yard.
I was beginning to think Tracy was a figment of your imagination. But I see she’s feeding the birds👍🏻
Thanks Alan you're a true genius and your wife is a heck of a Baker
Glad you’re back been a few. Hope all is well, glad to see another top notch machine ripping down the back lanes, keep’em coming and thanks. 🎱👀🎱
Allen , you are a True Engineering Magician. Your work is beyond perfection. Thank You.
I have to confess, I am *totally* in love with those little jewels. I wish there was some way I could give one a "forever home" and ride it occasionally to The Guild of Automotive Restorers in Bradford, Ontario, Canada, (actually where I work!) and make everyone drool!!
Park it next to the Buggati!
@@RadioReprised Darn *right* I would!!
A humble super-genius ! What an inspiration to other people, ALL other people !
Beautiful bikes, like they came right out of the Honda factory. I'm surprised at how they still have that destinctive sound! It takes me back to when i was a mechanic. Loved the simple tech and i'm glad i got out when Chinese 4-stroke scooters sold like hot cakes (pun intended) and are just as fragile, and motorbikes got stuffed with electronic gadgets.
Thanks for the ride :D
I love these gentle, happy little films. Thank you for sharing.
When I see what a genius Allen Millyard is & achieved I feel like an idiot.Just basic maintenance of me v-strom650 is a challenge.But his videos are inspiring.
Lovely, I added magnets to the dip stick and sump plug. I also added rubber mounts to the foot rest, toe tingle gone.
Good fun 1970's memory's of our childhood.
Wonderful little machines, great to see and hear. Work of an absolute genius, and thanks for sharing.
Great video - I remember meeting you on one of these a few years back at a diner near Newbury. I had a SS50 when I was 16 in 1975 and I've always had a soft spot for 1970's Honda 4 strokes ever since.
Yes the dinner has closed down
Hedgehogs are so sweet! (No hedgehogs here in Oregon- only chipmunks).
Yes they are nice. Ee got many here in our garden in Denmark.
We used to have hedgehogs till the badgers arrived about 10 years ago, coincidence ????
@@chrisstephens6673 Few badgers in this part of Denmark... So could be related?
@@tlmoller not sure which i would rather have, certainly badgers are easier to train to eat from your hand but hogs are very cute.
Don't worry, you can eat those, too.
Gday Allen,,
Thanks for taking the effort to share them ,we the faithful just love them ,there just perfect .
But ,,no phone call required this time ,what a legend ...!!
Respect
from
Down Under
Great Vid Al, you got nature, baking, mechanics and riding, all in one vid, brilliant 👍, noticed the 800cal cook book we use that, lock down hasn't been kind in the snacking area!
the Carb mounting is the coolest thing Ive ever seen on any engine !! that is thinking outside the frame... err box
Lovely little bikes. Great job, Allen.
Delia's complete cookery is a great book, I'd be lost without mine.
Your work is amazing, mechanically and artistically. Absolutely beautiful.
There is a guy,who love motorbikes at bottom of his heart👍
forgetting not to leave thumb up is like forgetting too tighten the sump bolt :o)
Just when I thought this channel couldn't get any better then I get a recipe for brownies OUTSTANDING 👍🏻😁
That was just what I needed to watch after a crazy day. Your creations and videos are... just perfect!
How about a 4 cylinder radial SS200? 😁
Or maybe a V4 ?
I'm currently in Serbia having ran the Belgrade Marathon today (yes, seriously!!), and my poor old body is creaking and seized. So as I chill out in the bed of my hotel room trying to recover - what an absolute bonus to see a Millyard video in my notifications! Just what I needed right now....... to go along with my Heineken 0% beer!!! 😂
Thank you Allen for this,we've missed your videos of motorcycling perfection!it's a perfect end to a Sunday evening and these little v-twins are gem's!hahaha- Charlie's back at it😂
The roads in his neighborhood are so narrow and twisty to what we have in the Texas Gulf Coast area here in the USA. Small displacement motorcycles make so much sense for that part of England. I really enjoy his expertise and videos!
It's strange that bikes are an exciting machine but this is chill out tv , like a bikers version of jack Hargreaves
Jack Hargreaves and Out of Town, now there's a flashback in time. I agree
one day, Mr. Millyard, when your bikes are only visible in museums and these inspired films are what remains of you in this life, people will look back and think of names like Arlen Ness, Ed Roth, and Kenny "Von Dutch" Howard, and another name will come to mind... Yours.
One cannot think of the coolest names in motorcycling, without thinking of Allen Millyard. you, sir, have taken to the art of motorcycle building like Leonardo Da Vinci took to the brush and Palette. You are possibly the greatest motorcycle enthusiast living and breathing on this planet in 2021.
These are brilliant, probably my favorite of all of the incredible engines you've done. What I'd love to see is one of these engines in a lightweight high performance truss-style frame.
Yes, a miniature Ducati 😊
WHAT!!! I literally just sat there in class the other day telling a teacher about reusing old copper gaskets and washer seals by heating and quenching and he called me an idiot. I literally started believing I was wrong. I need to get the hell out of this brand mill school man so I can dream.
Heating copper to a bright cherry red then leaving to cool in air or quenching in water will make it soft and malleable for re use
Wait till Tracy tries to find her tablet tray ,you will be in trouble.
Unless you blame Charley Weaver...
Excellent video.
Damn... These videos are really well filmed and edited too.
Design, engineering, fabricating, filming making light fluffy cupcakes.. You are an Internet sensation.
I love how they look and sound. I really want one haha
Your videos are such a pleasure to watch, Allen! You make us feel like family.
Man I am so happy for another Allen vid. I'm actually planning a visit to the barber museum it's only 4 hrs away.
LOVE the respect for the Hedgehog, "so he'll be able to do hedgehog things tonight"!
I used to frequently refrain from doing noisy things in my hot rod shop, here in Arizona, 'cause I could hear the snoring coming from my Shih-Tzu's "shop bed", and I knew he was recharging to do classified Shih-Tzu stuff...
Where else you can get motorcycle maintenance AND cooking in one video? I found this soo Zen! Perfect for relax
Incredible. I wondered why I'd never seen an SS100, that's because you made them.
When I was 16 I had an AP50, incredibly powerful for such a tiny engine. Then again, being 9 stone at the time helped. A few years later I had a Suzuki A100, that thing flew.
While my 1200 Bandit was so mych more powerful, the little bikes are definitely fun.
Came here to see motorbicycles, and I learnt how to bake cookies :)
These bikes are my favorite of your creations. I've got quite a soft spot for these old honda 50cc/70cc based engines.
some of the cleanest oil I've seen, drained.
yeah because it's done 40 miles...
There's probably another 60 hours use in that oil .
Allen Millyards channel, the only channel where you get an education in both extreme motorcycle engineering genius and cooking in one ✌
When is the "Tracy's Treats" youtube channel going to be started?
"This recipe says it makes a dozen cupcakes, and, I swear I always make 12. However, once you set them out to cool, you will come back later and find you only made 10 or 11. Either i'm starting to go a little batty, or, Allen is up to his old tricks again." ~ 'Tracy's Treats' (first video preview)
@@UmmmmmmmWhat - I'd definitely follow cake design on this level ... briefly ft. Alan in the Shed of course
@@UmmmmmmmWhat The recipe only makes 10, but she grafts on a couple extras for a batch of 12.
you guys never heard of a Bakers Dozen?
I've never heard of a SS300 V6 but don't think Alan is going there past the tea and cakes, the illusion of speed v's the reality of Tracey's Treats, it's tough call unless you have both.
What an absolutely brilliant idea. I'm sure you could put a whisk in hubby's milling machine & make a massive batch of them Tracey.😍😅
I own a honda ss50 for 27yrs.its a very good bike and i love to ride it but yours is very best looking that I've seen until now.keep it up😍
These little Honda's are jewels, absolute jewels Allen. P.S I get a very naughty Sparrow Hawk in my garden hanging around the communal bird bath looking for a snack.
Yes, our songbird population is also predated by a Sparrowhawk. It killed a Swift last year. I fitted two inch weldmesh around our table, that stopped it.
@@6brman10 Well my sparrows are very naughty and are always squabbling in my garden so the hawk was welcome visitor. There is always utter silence when he visits the communal bath 🛁 plus he doesn't poo in it like the sparrows do. He's welcome. The noisy Jackdaws in my neighbours chimney are not though. Do you get pheasants in your garden?? Let's have a bird off 🤗
Love your videos ,shows me anything is possible with the right amount of skill and passion, the wildlife and cooking segments are a brilliant extra.
Greta will be on the 'phone to you to check that the eggs in the brownie, were "Free Range" and the chickens gave their permission for them to be used in the video!
I had an L reg SS50 when I was 16, wrote it off just before I was 17, loved it. But these two and the SS 250 are stunning. Completely different league.
Beautiful motorcycles ✅👍🏾💯
Those narrow roads and blind corners give me anxiety!
Lens angle and camera position often make it look faster then it is, and have a more obscured view of the corner than the driver has.
Low camera positions dramatically reduce how far you can look in to a corner.
As Allan has a lot of years driving experience, I am sure he is aware of idiots in (but not limited to) oncoming traffic.
That snd all the gravel / rough patches were pushing my blood pressure up. 😅😅
@@zorktxandnand3774 you don't drive a bike, you ride it
@@andyb7963 potato tomato.
I have an old 600 Bandit. I am a pensioner, living in an agricultural area in the West Country. As you get older you become more aware of your mortality. I rarely exceed 50mph. As a teenager I delighted in screwing every last bit out of my Tiger 100. Having survived various serious illnesses, causing my wife's hair to turn white, it doesn't seem like such a good idea these days.
As good as you are with the bikes, Tracy is good in the kitchen.
I prefer the corner piece or at least an edge piece, sir
Much fun! A friend in Winsboro did this with a small 70cc Honda dirt bike engine. He built a custom frame and other parts. The project was a miniature Captain America chopper. Turned out great!
I'll have to look back on older videos to see the engine build again. 🤔
So you have cylinders offset by the width of the big end but have a one piece cam chain drive? Yet everything looks to line up perfectly!
I'm puzzled in how it all goes together.
Highly entertaining, each video a work of art, coupled with amazing bikes and subtle humour. Wonderful, thanks so much 👍
You have a great Chaneel 👍🤝
These little bikes are a joy to behold. Honda should make something like them.
SPOILER ALERT
Mechanical genius, chocolate brownie addict and wildlife lover makes a tiny Swedish Elf puppet cry and engages in apostrophe abuse! 🧐😎😜
I enjoy seeing the ingenious methods employed by Mr. Millyard to build and maintain his machines. He lives in a beautiful area of England, I love the scenery in his ride sequences. Finally, I enjoy the visits to Mrs. Millyard's kitchen to see what she is baking. Wonderful videos, thanks!
I stuck a C90 engine in a SS50 and that would pull 60 mph quite happily the lads on the AR50s they never worked it out 🤣😅🤣
Thats the way to do it! :-)
I did the poor man's version, I stuck a c70 head and piston onto my SS50 but the 70cc had a slightly longer stroke or a more domed piston and it started to knock slightly, my teenager mind thought nothing of it, it went well for about 50 miles then threw the rod out of the crankcase 🙄
@@bonkeydollocks1879 gutted for you , at the time although £25 wasn't a great deal it was still enough to skint me but £25 on a used c90 engine was so worth it 😁
@@cazrealist1 it had to be done, another common one was on the fizzy to put the 100cc head on from a yammy yb100 (?) direct fit I think🤔
@@bonkeydollocks1879 also the Honda h100 engine would slip straight into a Honda mt5
Brilliant nothing better than motorcycles and chocolate! The single mirror set up reminds me of my time in India riding an old Rajdoot 175👍
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So what..
@@Shane-zx4ps Awww! Meanie 😸.
@@Shane-zx4ps Sometimes I go in and write first, when I'm no. much more - just to troll.. Only one, and someone backing him up, have taken the bait yet
@@martinda7446 Ok. I’m sorry, I feel bad now.👍😃
@@Shane-zx4ps Ha ha so you should. 😾😸
Occasionally, on the dirge that is TH-cam you come across a real gem of a channel that is really appealing and totally absorbing. Thank you Allen for great no fuss entertainment.
This guy blows my mind, his Mechanical knowledge is unprecedented. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻