Welcome paulc

[Admin]

Hello paulc,

Welcome to The Motorbike Forum. Please feel free to browse around and get to know the others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

Why not tell us a bit about yourself too. 

 

[paulc]

Hello everyone, I am Paul from Wirral on Merseyside and just bought my first bike after a 30 years away from biking, it is a sensible 2002 650v Deauville(due to be delivered from KH motorcycles in Market Harborough imminently), it is old like me and failed its MOT when they tried to MOT it before Delivery on fork seals so I am waiting patiently whilst they do their stuff.
I am a semi retired Engineer and an avid sheddy who likes engines, the steam variety in particular.
I am also a caver and like beer 

my previous bikes were

Villiers cotton 197

suzuki gp100u

Yamaha RD250LC

Honda 250n superdream with the rickman full touring fairing.


Hello 

[Stu]

Hi Paul and welcome to the forum 

[Bender]

You had me at beer

 

Welcome  

[paulc]

Thanks for the welcome Stu and Bender

[skyrider]

27 minutes ago, paulc said:

Thanks for the welcome Stu and Bender

welcome to the forum have fun 

[paulc]

Thank you skyrider, will try my best

[rennie]

Hello and Welcome 

[skyrider]

11 minutes ago, paulc said:

Thank you skyrider, will try my best

great stuff 

[paulc]

19 hours ago, rennie said:

Hello and Welcome 

Thanks for the welcome Rennie

[Six30]

welcome    a caver you say .... we got a dogger and cottager on here , is there much difference ?

[Ian Frog]

@Six30 At least let him get in and take off his coat before you start (twat !)

@paulc tinkerers and shed dwellers are always welcome here.

Cheers

Ian

[dynax]

Hello and welcome

You might find this interesting if you like steam engines

 

 

[Six30]

1 hour ago, Ian Frog said:

@Six30 At least let him get in and take off his coat before you start (twat !)

@paulc tinkerers and shed dwellers are always welcome here.

Cheers

Ian

trousers you mean 

[paulc]

Thanks for the welcome, Six30, Ian and dynax

@six30 all pretty similar really but with the addition of beer and mud ... @Dynax, just imagine having a shop like that it is amazing thanks for the video....@Ian Frog, I need a bigger shed but it is still my fave place to be but if it was bigger it still wouldnt be big enough

[onesea]

Just had quick look at your Google page awesome. It's asking time since my caving days the pictures make me wonder why I stopped.

Then I remember the cold, the wet, the small spaces....

[paulc]

1 hour ago, onesea said:

Just had quick look at your Google page awesome. It's asking time since my caving days the pictures make me wonder why I stopped.

Then I remember the cold, the wet, the small spaces....

Thank you Onesea, I often wonder about the cold and wet too and the tight crawls make me feel fat and old these days :D, its never to late to get back under ground you know lol.

[James in Brum]

I’m desperate to get back to climbing regularly, I adore climbing. Caving I get it with the big spaces underground but the thought of squeezes and sumps reminds me that geological time is likely to speed up dramatically when I am near meaning that the I would become trapped.

[paulc]

10 hours ago, James in Brum said:

I’m desperate to get back to climbing regularly, I adore climbing. Caving I get it with the big spaces underground but the thought of squeezes and sumps reminds me that geological time is likely to speed up dramatically when I am near meaning that the I would become trapped.

Hi James I understand that, my biggest fear is cramping up these days in a crawl but most of the ropework that I do is SRT single rope technique and I am not to good at it really especially prussiking and rebelays because Im a bit of a weed. 

On the plus side my Deauville was delivered today, she is called "Dolly" and I put 70 miles on her and no problems

[James in Brum]

Fab! I thought about a deuville when I bought my zzr. I hope you enjoy it

plenty of space for kit for trips too!

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

9 hours ago, paulc said:

Hi James I understand that, my biggest fear is cramping up these days in a crawl but most of the ropework that I do is SRT single rope technique and I am not to good at it really especially prussiking and rebelays because Im a bit of a weed. 

On the plus side my Deauville was delivered today, she is called "Dolly" and I put 70 miles on her and no problems

Well  Helloooo Dolleeee  

[Guest Swagman]

Hi welcome back to biking.

[paulc]

6 hours ago, Swagman said:

Hi welcome back to biking.

Thank you Swagman, so far so good

[skyrider]

On 26/12/2020 at 09:19, paulc said:

Hello everyone, I am Paul from Wirral on Merseyside and just bought my first bike after a 30 years away from biking, it is a sensible 2002 650v Deauville(due to be delivered from KH motorcycles in Market Harborough imminently), it is old like me and failed its MOT when they tried to MOT it before Delivery on fork seals so I am waiting patiently whilst they do their stuff.
I am a semi retired Engineer and an avid sheddy who likes engines, the steam variety in particular.
I am also a caver and like beer 

my previous bikes were

Villiers cotton 197

suzuki gp100u

Yamaha RD250LC

Honda 250n superdream with the rickman full touring fairing.


Hello 

there is a quite tidy ntv 600 in blue on fleabay at the moment 

[onesea]

Thanks for the thought of going underground, a decade or so since i last attempted that.  Although some tank diving brought back the memories a few years back.

 
I never had an issue with SRT then I was a sailer so understood ropes.

 

Your in a Nice corner of the country for biking great roads in all direction.  plus you have the best egg run. Although the year I went we road home with snow laying all around.