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Voyagers - Allen Millyard

... to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often - Cardinal John Henry Newman - An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 1845

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Allen Millyard's background

What makes Allen Millyard such a great example?

Allen Millyard's background

Allen Millyard is a writer for motorcycle magazines, and the land speed record holder for a motorcycle carrying a rider and a passenger. But, far more astounding is that this great British eccentric builds the most amazing motorcycles in his garden shed in Thatcham, just outside of Newbury. The bikes he builds are almost unbelievable - a 5600cc V twin - The Flying Millyard, that started life as two cylinders from a WWII airplane; a 10 cylinder Viper engined bike that achieved the land-speed record; bikes that started as 4-cylinder machines turned into 6s, triples turned into 5-cylinder machines. Nothing is beyond Allen's imagination, or ability, and they all turn out 'just perfect'.

When I first saw Allen's videos on Youtube, showing how he crafts these incredible machines, I just knew that he would have some very unusual astrology. So this September I looked him up on FreeBMD - easy enough as he has an unusual name - and this gave me a three month window during which he was likely to have been born; the September quarter of 1961. Then, looking at the astrological ephemeris, I concluded that he was likely to have been born on or around the 16th of August, possibly up to the 18th, because of a rare Sun, Mercury, Uranus and North Node conjunction that occurred then at 25 Leo +/-2. After this I trawled through Facebook [cyberstalking - my bad] and this confirmed the 16th, which was pretty satisfying for me.

To be fair and complete, as far as Astrology, this is not the first time that I have been able to work out someone's birthday by looking for likely astrological patterns - and that is something that I take as further evidence for the veracity of Astrology, each and every time that it happens.