Dub_cub 89
RMS Regular
So having passed my direct access back in September last year I began looking for my first bike, not wanting to bite off more than I could chew and with a modest budget I had my eyes on old the 400s. I looked at a few that were too tired and some of the better ones I looked at couldn’t be bought for what I felt was sensible money. Fast forward a few months to January and I spotted this nc29 in Letterkenny...
I went to view it and to be honest it was the dirtiest wee bike I’d seen in a long time... I’d seen cleaner dirt bikes coming out of fields. I took it for a wee blast and it felt a lot nicer on the road than its first impression had led me to expect, it was basically mechanically sound bar a couple of slight niggles... headlights weren’t working and the fork seals were hanging out of it, but easy fixes and it wasn’t dear so I couldn’t turn it down.
I began by giving it a damn good clean and tidying up the wiring and refurbishing the forks while I registered it up here in the north again (it’d been up here before until 2012)
So with the quickest of MOTs that was me officially on the road as a biker
My first proper outing was with a few RMSers for a wee run up the coast from Carrickfergus and within a matter of weeks I’d had it the length and breadth of the north and up to the north west 200...
I went to view it and to be honest it was the dirtiest wee bike I’d seen in a long time... I’d seen cleaner dirt bikes coming out of fields. I took it for a wee blast and it felt a lot nicer on the road than its first impression had led me to expect, it was basically mechanically sound bar a couple of slight niggles... headlights weren’t working and the fork seals were hanging out of it, but easy fixes and it wasn’t dear so I couldn’t turn it down.
I began by giving it a damn good clean and tidying up the wiring and refurbishing the forks while I registered it up here in the north again (it’d been up here before until 2012)
So with the quickest of MOTs that was me officially on the road as a biker
My first proper outing was with a few RMSers for a wee run up the coast from Carrickfergus and within a matter of weeks I’d had it the length and breadth of the north and up to the north west 200...