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I'm up for meeting you all in dewsbury with Marcus. I won't have time to make the day of it but it will be good to have a catch up.

Patrick, I can't give you his email address, I was waiting for you to confirm you were OK with me giving him your email address. That way he can get in touch with you, if he wishes to.

A great night out, amazing the problems you face trying to put a lynx heliopter engine in a bike. Great article here covering mist of it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motorbikes/10556254/The-400mph-motorbike.html Would be great if we could maybe get a wscc sticker on it. Thanks for flagging the event up Mike, will try and round a few more members up for future talks.

Last year after seeing a photo of a Caterham stuffed under some Armco on the internet and being horrified by just 4 x 8mm bolts through fiberglass holding my windscreen away from my face I started making some phone call about buying a cage For one reason or another I could not buy one off the shelf, have a delivery date or I would have to trail the car halfway across the country then do the same trip a few weeks later to pick up the car again With this in mind I started looking at retaining my RAC bar for its integrity and adding a forward loop of my own construction DISCLAIMER Don't do this if you don't know how to weld or doubt your ability. Treat it as information I no nothing about the subject and do your own research or just buy the off the shelf item and have it fitted So I leant a pipe bender from a mate bought some seamless pipe and made a start reading the blue book for info and ideas I first started by bending the pipes to shape I made saddle type claps to fit over the box section with spacers to stop the saddle hitting the bodywork or the box section collapsing 1 2 I trimmed the end of the tubing using rolled up toilet paper centres to sit on the saddle stubs 3 I cut trimmed and tacked the roof bars to the rear loop, the put a bit of wood across the tub to support the side impact bars at the right height to tack them on 4 I tacked in a diagonal to give strength and shield the mirror mounting plate from passengers 5 Cleaned old powder coating off with abrasive disc 6 Fresh back from powder coating 7 Fitted to car Costs were £160 for steel tubing £40 for powder coating £20 for cutting and grinding discs, mig wire and bolts

Some more photos of mine- actually just measured it at 7 x 31.5" with a 2.25" pipe.

Best I can do at the mo, will take a closeup for you: