The further mechanical adventures of the Candidi Provocatores
In this picture of the Allard in the queue at Warleggan, you can just make out the end of the axle before the end of our John Aley Trial That last cliffhanger left your brave boys with an immobile Allard at the top of Blue Hills. We couldn't go forward. We could roll backwards but had no drive in any gear. Gareth White was spectating after losing his Marlin’s rear electrics soon after the start and he noticed the end of the axle going round without driving the offside wheel. The horrible clicking noise was the snap of the key and then it moving against the hub as the axle turned. Willing hands bounced us around so that we could get towed out by a JCB. In these circumstances, I remember the end of Spike Milligan’s TV show, where the cast would shuffle forward, repeatedly saying, “What do we do next? What do we do next?” Binky lives near Andover. I live near Liskeard, which isn’t quite on the way. If we could get the car recovered to Binky’s place, the driver probably wou...