We all get old and the brain works in different ways and everything we see on YouTube is right, right, Al keeps telling us his Seeley is so good built out of bits and pieces, but we will never know how good it is as he is the only one who USE to ride it.
Anyway it's hard to change some one's ideas when it's stuck in their head even if they been proven wrong time and time over, being set in his own ways he will always be right no matter what he gets told or proven other wise.
For someone who has had very long breaks from racing and over 10+ years since he has been on his bike, maybe why he has troubles finding a race track to let him ride, maybe it's for his own safety they don't let him.
In a way I feel for Al and he seems to have a love of his bike as we all do, but I think he has left it a bit long now to race again from pressure from others and lost of old racing mates, I just feel sorry for his bike just sitting in the shed and if anything happens to Al it be just another pile of junk to others in his family and I have seen that happen before.
Maybe find someone to take your bike on Al before it's too late.
Ashley