Thank you all for your generous welcome: It is most heart warming.

NBs996: I hope your knee is now fully fit - you had me worried as i read how long you were supposed to restarin from riding!

Glyn: A nice new carbon ligament sounds ideal - do I get a DSC discount

BrownRigby: Your similar 'off' sounds relatively recent, are you now OK? Hope so, and am jealous of a nice shiny new bike!

Scotty B: I will make contact following your suggestion - although I'm hoping that my knee is recovering sufficiently well not to warrant being dissected by a laser..........

Flanker: Looking forward to meeting you soon - will try to make Poole Quay on Tuesday. Where abouts do you generally tend to gather and at what time?

Oh, yes ... a little background info: My baby is a red '98 748BP: Carbon cans, braided lines, but as all the plastic needs replacing I am thinking along the lines of replica 998 fairings (being well looked after by Tony @ Two Four Italia), again in red but perhaps with some restrained personalisation. Current thinking is the white number board nose cone detail with gold line, and perhaps a french flag on the 'SPS' seat unit (I shan't mention the football.......). Any (polite...) suggestions gratefully received.

I am living in sin in Poole with my lovely girlfiend (!) who should pass her bike test, fingers crossed, in the next 12 months or so.

:frog:

Hey, don't worry about that mate, I had other bits broken in there too.... One bit of advice though - if you've got a physio routine to do then be disciplined and stick to it! I was lazy, and as a result I still get grief from it 14 years on!!

As for the plastics - I've got the white number board with gold trim and I think it looks good, but a french flag? Are you serious??!!!!

BrownRigby: Your similar 'off' sounds relatively recent, are you now OK? Hope so, and am jealous of a nice shiny new bike!

Good guess mate as it was 9 weeks ago! Not to bad at the mo, broken collar (3 places ) getting there / ribs and back not right but not complaining (tooooo much:frog:) the rest is ok. However the bike was very DEAD:mad: and i had just spent a few thou on it through the year:mad::mad:

Cannot wait to get the Duke:D

Good luck with your recovery:bouncy:

Hello PB...welcome to the board...
Hope the "ligament" sorts itself...

Lisa x

Hi Patrica,

We at present meet at the seaview hotel, then make our way down to the Quay. However, we are having a re-think about that.

I'll mail you and others up dates etc as they come up.

Thanks for the mail, and very much look forward to meeting you with the others soon.

Mark.

Welcome aboard mate
Mark

Welcome PB...... from the tart boys !!:roll::roll::bouncy::bouncy:

Thanks again for the excellent welcome

Sorry didn't make it to Poole Quay last night - but I'm betting not many others did either!

Hope to catch up with many of you soon, in the meantime I'm off to TFI to agree rebuild spec of my little baby:sing: and then off to see the physio for some more torture!

Bye for now....

Tuesday, was in Southport, so , no i wasn't there!