Newbie from Norn Iron

[bignico2411]

I really should have done this bit before posting a 'can you help?' thread, so I do apologise if I breached board etiquette

Nick from Lisburn in Northern Ireland, riding a pretty bog standard '84 PX 125 (though there will be a sito plus going on there shortly). Would love a MkII GS, but don't have the funds currently, and my missus point blank refuses to sell her car to fund it!!

Tech luddite with all bar the basics, but keen to learn rather than constantly take my scoot to others to repair/modify.

Decent scooter scene here in Norn Iron; mostly mods (old and new), scooterboys, few skins and guys without a 'tribe' who just love small wheeled bikes. Lots of runs throughout the 'summer' months (most for charity, no bad thing). Met some old friends (had a T5 in the late 80's) and made some new ones. Always good craic to get out for a run and smell that two stroke!! Work is an easy commute on the scoot, so get as much riding in as our sh*te weather permits between April and early November (first frost is my personal cut-off point)

Will post a pic or two later when on my own computer

[ronnie66]

Welcome, I'm fairly new here myself.
Like yourself I'm wanting to be more hands on with jobs on my Vespa.
This site is a perfect choice for you as there are lots of experienced guys on here who are very keen to share their knowledge and help with those tricky problems that we all encounter.
They have helped me along enormously.
I'm sure you'll get some good craic on here too

Ronnie

[henri]

hi n welcome to the "madhouse" matey , theres a few irish on here already , bigd is a name of 1 i think , H

[bignico2411]

Thanks for the welcome, gents! Looking forward to expanding my embarrassingly scant knowledge of all things vespa

[bigd]

We to the forum bignico, I'm from Carrickfergus, hopefully meet up somewhere mate, the regulars on here are very helpful with any questions you might have, they also like their daily fix of scooter porn so throw a pic of your scoot up if you get a chance mate.

[bignico2411]

cheers, bigd! I'll bet we've probably been on some of the same runs, keep me posted on any coming up that you're doing and we'll put faces to names! I'll sort out posting a pic or two later

[bigd]

If you're on Facebook check out the Northern Ireland Scooter Clubs page, there are plenty of runs coming up, unfortunately my work plays havoc most weekends.

[bignico2411]

Don't do the facebook thing, but the missus does, I'll get her to check

Here is my scoot, a photo from last summer when there were a few days of sunshine

[bigd]

Nice one bignico, thanks for sharing mate, the next big run for me will be the A2 Aces Rally in September, to much on at the weekends between now and then, though we do get a run to Belfast most Thursday evenings.