Millyard - Honda SS100 V Twins, riding, maintenance and tips 

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."

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."

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 RU-vid output.

Nothing better than more millyard! Love these Hondas Allen, beautiful

Not only are you a mechanical wizard, but also quite talented at making videos. I love your camera work! Great angles and varied shots!

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.

Wildlife, cooking brownies and two amazing Hondas. This is RU-vid gold. Thanks for sharing.

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. 👍😁❤️🇬🇧

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.

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!

Every vid you make is a classic, your workmanship, is sublime, Tracey seems to be a dab hand with the oven as well

Tracy is a champ mate, good on her for letting you put your bike stuff on her baking channel ! Love Steve from New Zealand

Perfect Sunday viewing.

I have little to no knowledge or experience with these machines but i could listen and watch you show us about them all day

I have said before, these are my favourite Millyards, they look like they rolled out of the factory like this.

Can't say enough great things about Allen and his work, and, genuinely, I'm so glad he's taken to RU-vid to share all of this. I'll have to check out that Barber Museum someday to see some of his creations in the flesh!

Allen, as usual, you demonstrate to us mere humans your mechanical wizardry… top engineer my friend! Bravo and thanks for sharing your unbelievable creations.

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.

Love the tight country lane riding. Looks like you're flying along.

"...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)

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

Another excellent video Allen. An eclectic mix of wildlife, cooking and motorbikes, all edited together nicely.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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 RU-vid 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.

We love millyard!

Sir Allen! You are my perfect happy retired life. Perfect with the bikes & the pets around.

Wow - bikes, birds, brownies and booze (Charlie). Just perfect Allen! 😁

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.

I would feel rich with just one of those V-twins, but three: MAN! Thanks for sharing your truly amazing work. 👍

Delia's complete cookery is a great book, I'd be lost without mine.

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!!

the Carb mounting is the coolest thing Ive ever seen on any engine !! that is thinking outside the frame... err box

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.

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.

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. 🎱👀🎱

... no question, everyone who sees this test drive will have a big grin on their face, ... I swear ...! What a brilliant engine, ... imagine if Allan had bored out the cylinders to 62cc, ... SS 125, ... amazing!

I was beginning to think Tracy was a figment of your imagination. But I see she’s feeding the birds👍🏻

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...

Allen Millyard, humble legend.

Allen , you are a True Engineering Magician. Your work is beyond perfection. Thank You.

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😂

A humble super-genius ! What an inspiration to other people, ALL other people !

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.

Oh my word... when the green neutral light clicked on I was 16 years old again for a few seconds.

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 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!

Hedgehogs are so sweet! (No hedgehogs here in Oregon- only chipmunks).

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.

Wonderful little machines, great to see and hear. Work of an absolute genius, and thanks for sharing.

Thanks Alan you're a true genius and your wife is a heck of a Baker

Your work is amazing, mechanically and artistically. Absolutely beautiful.

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.

Lovely little bikes. Great job, Allen.

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? 😁

Damn... These videos are really well filmed and edited too. Design, engineering, fabricating, filming making light fluffy cupcakes.. You are an Internet sensation.

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.

I love these gentle, happy little films. Thank you for sharing.

It's strange that bikes are an exciting machine but this is chill out tv , like a bikers version of jack Hargreaves

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!!! 😂

Wait till Tracy tries to find her tablet tray ,you will be in trouble. Unless you blame Charley Weaver... Excellent video.

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.

This must take so many hours to make a video like this, but it really is worth the time. These video's are educational and pleasant to see. Good job and very beautiful bikes you have Allen.

forgetting not to leave thumb up is like forgetting too tighten the sump bolt :o)

I love how they look and sound. I really want one haha

These bikes are my favorite of your creations. I've got quite a soft spot for these old honda 50cc/70cc based engines.

Where else you can get motorcycle maintenance AND cooking in one video? I found this soo Zen! Perfect for relax

Your videos are such a pleasure to watch, Allen! You make us feel like family.

When is the "Tracy's Treats" youtube channel going to be started?

There is a guy,who love motorbikes at bottom of his heart👍

some of the cleanest oil I've seen, drained.

Allen Millyards channel, the only channel where you get an education in both extreme motorcycle engineering genius and cooking in one ✌

Came here to see motorbicycles, and I learnt how to bake cookies :)

Occasionally, on the dirge that is RU-vid you come across a real gem of a channel that is really appealing and totally absorbing. Thank you Allen for great no fuss entertainment.

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!

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!

Those narrow roads and blind corners give me anxiety!

These little bikes are a joy to behold. Honda should make something like them.

I prefer the corner piece or at least an edge piece, sir

As good as you are with the bikes, Tracy is good in the kitchen.

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.

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.

Beautiful motorcycles ✅👍🏾💯

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'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.

What learnt today. . Always add the almonds to the sugar first, then the chocolate. Do your chores first then you can play. Take care of the animals and don't drink all day. Thanks Allen 🇦🇺

SPOILER ALERT Mechanical genius, chocolate brownie addict and wildlife lover makes a tiny Swedish Elf puppet cry and engages in apostrophe abuse! 🧐😎😜

Nice day, riding bike and you come home to a cup of tea and a brownie.... what a perfect day Allen.

You have a great Chaneel 👍🤝

Thanks for all you've given us Alan. I've picked up so many pointers from you and been able to put them to use in my own CBR250RR project. I notice that beyond your mechanical genius lies an infinite reservoir of patience and perseverance.

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 🤣😅🤣

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😍

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