Simon, ("Muffin" on the forum), owns the black Reliant trike we featured in the frame building chapters elsewhere on the site. We put together the rolling chassis for him then he took it from there. I'm glad to say he regularly clocks up the miles on it & rides it like it was intended to be ridden -fast & recklessly.
Si's into battle re-enacting. He belongs to a Napoelonic group & is a member of the 71st Highland Light Infantry. They regularly head off to Waterloo to fight the French in the name of good King George the third.
So we headed off to a quiet corner of Basingstoke this afternoon & grabbed a few snapshots of him in his finery, sporting his black powder musket. He has to hold a full gun licence for that thing & keep it under lock & key, so we were lucky we weren't swooped on by the Basingstoke armed response cops.
We chose a spot opposite Flap's house for the pics. He came ambling over for a natter. Flap's in the Terratorial Army. Funny listening to him & Si comparing notes on their firearms. "Mine fires 30 rounds in 7 seconds". "Erm, mine'll fire 2 a minute if I can ram the shot in quick enough". We can all sleep soundly in our beds knowing these guys are guarding us.
Full write up & photos online soon.