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Hi all

My name is Paul from Maidstone in England.
I'm 45 yrs old and have been riding since I was about 10 yrs old. I started off with crossers
over the woods etc. Then at 16 got on the road legally :D with a Honda MB 50.
After that I went onto the RD 125 then the 250 LC then 350 LC.
I always used to do my own work on my bikes and spent many happy times stripping the RD's down
and fiddling. I rebuilt the top end on more than a few of the bikes I had.
I didn't actual pass my test until a bit later then got an SV 650. I had a couple of them for a while.
Now I have a 99 R1 4xv. I love the bike and can see me staying with the R1 for the foreseeable future.
Anyway that's a bit about me and my biking background. I look forward to posting and maybe answering
some posts who knows.


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Hi Paul and welcome. Good history of bikes you have there, we'd love to see some pics of the 4xv. :)
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Welcome Paul, good write up and as Boz says - post some pics


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Hi mate welcome


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Thanks for the replies guys. I'm just figuring out how to post pics etc.
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Get the Tapatalk app easy as then


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Welcome in Paul
How long you had the 4xv ? Love mine and will be hanging on to it ;)
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welcome in paul (fucking great name ;-) ) the early r1s' really are great bikes - not biased honest :-)
enjoy the forum & get stuck in m8

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Thanks I'll download tapatalk.
I've had my 4xv just over a year now. I absolutely love it.
Me and a few friends went down to the top gear track last year
on the stunt asylum thing. I'll try and post a vid of a few wheelies it
was a fun day.
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Hi Paul, welcome to the forum.


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HI Mate and Welcome :)
Riding bikes is life, anything before or after is just waiting :D

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Nice intro Paul. Welcome in.


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Fantastic intro Paul and welcome to the mad house, as Paul aka Clarky said, Paul is a great name ( ''tis my middle name Image)

Anyway welcome and as the guys said post some pics

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Taptalk

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viewtopic.php?f=4&t=144" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Welcome in paul

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Will add some more pics but here's my bike when I first got it. It had the single seat conversion on it but the missus had other ideas


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If you've got a missus prepared to jump on the back of an R it's not all bad! Does look tasty like that tho.


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2012 & yellow - must be one of those anni's.
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Nice 99!

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Lovely looking bike that! :)
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looks sweet :-) & in the faster blue too ;-)

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Horus-222_R1 wrote:If you've got a missus prepared to jump on the back of an R it's not all bad! Does look tasty like that tho.


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Be even better if she got her own bike ;)
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Hmmm she did make noises a little while ago about doing her test but I'm not happy with that. She has smashed up a few cars!!! I am lucky tho she likes going on the back and doesn't mind me popping the odd wheelie.


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