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hello all! my names john, im 22, im a dockmaster for brixham harbour and i'm new! I've just recently decided to bite the bullet and go for my full bike licence after taking my poor little 125 marauder far further than it was ever meant to go, having said that it has served me well and in the right hands a lovely machine which now lives on to serve fresh blood to the bikers realm.
days afer announcing my quest for the licence i was offered a sorry looking XJ900 and, like many of you i hope, instantly developed an unhealthy sense of mercy for this (soon not to be) bright purple wreck. i bought it, stripped it and i'm now in the process of a complete nut and bolt rebuild.
I do intend to make some changes, i apologize in advance to any fundamentalist fans of the XJ but, since its a project likely to consume most of my pocket money for quite some time, i feel it best to make a machine which it exactly what i'm looking for. i hope that if you follow my progress you will see that i'm simply trying to make an awesome machine.
i'm really new to this so any advice would certainly be most appreciated, i hope to meet some interesting, like-minded people, cheers!

Welcome to SWB

Hello and welcome mate

Nice someone else from Brixham, where abouts at the harbour, probably see me nipping past the fishering factory thingy most mornings on my way to college.

yeah probably, i work all over the estate so everywhere between zeneca and the end of the breakwater!

Welcome to SWB...

Welcome to SWB, there are so many people from Torbay about now, though I never see anyone

Evening John, welcome to the site.

sorry, my typing is awful!

i must of clicked the wrong button or something, because this message was supposed to be first, at least now it hasnt got so many spelling mistakes! hello! so just out of interest, how many people here did their test in torbay? i ask because i'm doing mine in the new year and i was wondering whether theres aynyone thats particularly good/bad to go with?

Who else is from the bay?
I never even see another bike when I go out, occasional old woman/man on a ped in high vis jackets lots of chavs on peds.

Julian is in the bay, a couple other new guys too, one guy on an sv who drives a taxi and another on a cr600fm, forgot his name now (sorry) also shadeyaidy

welcome to the site.
u should be able to find some advice on here for your project.
not from me mind i'm about as mechanically minded as a dead fish.
and good at breaking trains

Hello and welcome

Cheers chaps, breaking trains? i'm sure theres a story to be told there?!