Ok im scraping the locost car and making one of these a locost chopper.
Rescued attachment woodencycle.jpg

That looks like it got the wheels off of Jon Ison's barrow.

Wood worm could be a problem for sva

if it is well designed, and I am not sure thatone is shold be no problem for SVA - SVA doesn;t stipulte what materials should be used providing they are appear to be strong enough?

and weren't Morgasn built on a wooden (ash) chassis?

No Morgans have an ash body frame on a steel chassis but the Original Marcos 1800 had a plywood structural chassis circa 1964 used aeronautical design techniques as per the Mosquito fighter bomber from WW2

Caber

It's been on here a couple of times.
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The guy who built it posted on this bog if you want to know more.

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/08/wood_motorcycle_still_a_make_m.html

Perhaps you could Branch out into other Avenues if you have success with it.
Steve,