My name is Nick, pause for response from group, and since we are being formal about all this....
I AM a motorcyclist and have been a classic addict for 5 years.
It started when I dropped by a local Honda dealer and there sitting forlornly on the showroom floor was a complete 1968 (sloper motor) CB175. An estate sale, with the original 1968 licence plate and stickers on it. Complete, but a little rough around the edges. My first ever bike was a '72 CB175 so I whipped out the Visa and he was mine. The addiction took hold and I vowed to do a cosmetic restoration. I discovered the pain of eBay in my search for parts, along with the spending of much money with unreliable overseas suppliers.
Then last year my addiction took total control, for there advertised in the local Buy and Sell was a Norton Commando, one of the bikes of my dreams. I had to have her and so spent the money I had recently acquired from the sale of my VFR800. Sorry dear, the hardwood flooring will have to wait. And we didn't really need the sun deck, did we? Scouring eBay became my passion (scourge) for now I was both Imperial and Metric.
Then a new job came up and I needed something able to handle the long travelling distances involved. Another peruse of the Buy and Sell and two days of legging around the lower mainland and I met Silver Sophie........the rest, for my sins, is history.
Then I discovered this forum and clarity began......this addiction can be controlled; and though I know that I will never be totally free of the passion that is old motorcycles I know I am amongst friends....
