[Gordon Steadman]

The ability to race something you have to make because it's not available to buy is very satisfying.

Making it with a knife or a machine is neither here nor there, I can't use a knife, you may not be able to use a 3D printer, either way we're making something unique which should be applauded.

Of course I appreciate the truth of your statement but I've reached the age where change is unwelcome just because I have become the old git that my younger self would have mocked.

Over that last few years my life has been so unsettled, with so many changes, some welcome and some definitely not, that I really just want a period of settled existence and peace and the freedom to expire gradually and gently into the void. 

Change is always disruptive, I can do without it now.