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So sad to see what has become of such a wonderful city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJLESaA_XrA&list=RDxJLESaA_XrA&start_radio=1

I am a Londoner, lived here for 63 years having been born in south London and moving to west London in 1971.

I recognise all the places in that video and sung by Jackie Trent who was married to Tony Hatch who was a composer (he wrote the Crossroads theme tune and was a panellist on New Faces and went on to discover Showaddywaddy, Roger De-Corsy with Nokkie Bear, Marti Webb and others).

Who ever made the video didn’t pay much attention to continuity, she walked through Aldgate station (the terminus of the Metropolitan line of the London Underground) and goes down to the platform to get on a train but then it cuts to her crossing Blackfriars Bridge on the Southern Railway! The guy is on a 1938 tube stock train.

Anyway......London in my eyes has become a lawless dump during the past 10-15 years, central London is Ok (as long as you don’t have a nice watch or a phone on show in Oxford Street or Bond Street) but the suburbs are becoming areas of filthy untidy streets with derelict shops and unregulated building (mostly illegal extensions to existing homes for extended families or for rent). Our high street that is no more than 600 yards in length has seven barbershops (there used to be one), ten convenience stores,  four vape shops, a tattoo shop, two ‘hole in the wall’ pubs and six sweet/booze/newspaper shops. These places last for six months at best, close down and within two weeks another one will open in its place, it is obvious what is really going on and our wonderful mayor turns a blind eye to all of it (he is just back from a trip to South Africa where he and his 11 'advisors' flew business class at the taxpayers expense). Meanwhile the leaders of this country live in leafy Islington and other expensive suburbs of north London and tell us we are misinformed of what is really going on.

I know this isn’t just happening in London but all over the country and the net migration figures released yesterday tell the real story, forget the headline illegal migrant figures, the really damaging figure is the one detailing the people leaving this country, mostly a younger generation and those who can afford to invest and run a business, they’ve had enough and have chosen to leave taking their talents with them.

We are in the process of finding somewhere else to live and at least 75 miles away from London!

Rant over..........

Come on Dave, put me out of my misery......how much was that NOS head when you bought it 30 years ago?

Thank you all.
Alan, I used to go to the bike auctions on a Friday night where they would sell tens of NC and CB 400’s. The gull arm 400’s were mini GP bikes! I remember countless Honda 400 Bros's with the occasional 650 passing through. BAT were a regular customer there. I think it took place in Leyton? I never had any money but went for the buzz of it all and to drool🤤
The NC is small, when I sat on it I felt like a giant! If you want to see one being restored back to standard from a wreck look up RRC Restorations on YouTube, it's a series of five or six episodes, you'll be hooked!

I've been very fortunate in that respect Graham,
We've been married 40 years next May - apparently it was cup final day back then but neither of us was interested in watching 22 grown men kicking a bag of wind around a manicured cow-pasture.
It's only in the last couple of years that Christine has lost interest in foreign holidays on the GoldWing - hence its recent sale and we've even parted with her 400/4 and C50 LAC. I'm not sure if the waning interest was because her leathers have shrunk more than mine - ouch! Perhaps it's just that the car holds more wine than the bike.  Up until then we had over 100,000 miles of 'Winging and we would often have weekends away collecting parts for bikes and cars but perhaps with a visit to a few garden centres and wildlife parks to keep things fairer.  She was often my 'resource investigator' at auto jumbles and I would show her what I needed and she would nearly always find it - after I'd been 'man looking'

'The lucky man of Orkney'

That sounds like a marriage made in heaven Ian. My wife learnt to ride a bike when we met 12 years ago. Her father was an ex royal marine who later joined the Dorset police as a bike cop and later went onto cars. I got her a CG125 to learn on and when she passed her test (first time, no faults or observations) she bought a 250 Yamaha single. Unfortunately she dropped it on gravel and that was it, her confidence vanished and the bike was sold. She did however agree to spending 10 days on a Harley when we went to NZ for the holiday of a lifetime. I thought it was going to be hard work but she loved it and still tells people it was the highlight of the holiday.

Stunning Dave. Got there in the end. You ridden it?

Thanks for the comments all. I won't be doing another of these bikes unless its all there to begin with!

I don't have insurance on it Tim so I've only ridden it down the alley at the back of the house, its slow as Bryan suggested! I dont think the owner will wrap it around a tree as he'll have trouble riding over the roots given its power, I think it is 8bhp! It needs a vin plate to finish it, I did email the guy who Julie suggested but no reply but then I'm not on FB (Faceache). I'll leave that for the owner to do (and to get a MOT, I know it doesn't need one but I would get one just to make sure what I have done is up to standard).
I'll start a thread for the NC30 once the TL leaves the garage and I have some room.

All good now Steve, it finally let me post. It was fine with just text but wouldn't let me post photos even when taking them down to low quality.

It wont let me post any, I've tried half a dozen times and it just keeps saying server error 500!

Is anyone else unable to post with attachments or is it just me?
I keep getting an error code 500 internal server error?