Welcome Westmoors

[Admin]

Hello Westmoors,

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. 

 

[Westmoors]

Hello to everyone, I did not find the newbie page for some reason but that's not unusal for me as you will find out in a later posts I am pretty lethal with a computer !  But I am ancient, I first started riding in 1962, just out of the forces and buying a very old Norton model 18 ( about 1929 build) from a back yard seller,I  slapped L plates on and rode across Sheffield back to my workplace, prior to that I had only test driven one for a friend on an airfield , no traing whatsoever but within a few weeks I did pass my driving test, I already had a car licence.

Later I moved on to a BSA A7 twin combination followed by another BSA M1 with a more up to date sidecar, then after a disasterous episode with a very old Moris tourer car and finished on an L E Velloette before the inevitable route athat most young men had of "old bangers" until I could afford a better car  ! But motoring was in my family as far back as I could remember, my Father was originally a despatch ride in the first world war, then a chaffeaur and mechanic while two of his brothers were also in the trade and it seemed natural for me to follow. I started as boy of 14 in a Ford agent's garage, moved to the family firm, ( not motor trade) then back to train as bench repairer of diesel fuel injection units and electrical units for a well known manufacturer, taken over by Lucas Electrical eventually, but finished as a branch manager in one of their service depots, so quite a varied and interesting working life . At present wishing to get back to riding a bike again, but that is to be the topic of a later post.

[Tiggie]

Welcome to the forum 

[Fiddlesticks]

Hi,  welcome.