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Bikes, Pictures, Stories & more => Introductions, Stories, Meetings & Pictures => Topic started by: Bodger paul on 09.03. 2025 11:57

Title: New member
Post by: Bodger paul on 09.03. 2025 11:57: Hello, Iam a new member having just bought my first british bike. A 1953 BSA A7. Iam 62 and upto now have always riden/owned japanese bikes. Bike is up and running but needs a few jobs doing. live in High Wycombe.Buckinghamshire UK.
Title: Re: New member
Post by: Colsbeeza on 09.03. 2025 12:03: Welcome Paul, *welcome*
This is the best place for help with your A7. Very experienced and helpful crowd with no trolls.
Cheers Col
Title: Re: New member
Post by: Bodger paul on 09.03. 2025 12:10: Hello Col. Thanks for the welcome.thats good to hear.do all my own maintenance but will need help with the BSA...having trouble posting pictures.File too large...Will get my son to help...
Title: Re: New member
Post by: terryg on 09.03. 2025 15:22: This really is an excellent forum. Keep asking, using the search function and reading and you may not be ‘bodger’ Paul much longer.
Hope you enjoy your A7.
Title: Re: New member
Post by: a10 gf on 09.03. 2025 16:44: Welcome ! & thanks for intro.
Title: Re: New member
Post by: Bodger paul on 09.03. 2025 17:37: Quote from: terryg on 09.03. 2025 15:22
This really is an excellent forum. Keep asking, using the search function and reading and you may not be ‘bodger’ Paul much longer.
Hope you enjoy your A7.

Hello Terryg...Iam a Chairmaker by trade from High Wycombe which used to be known as Britains furniture town. Lots of chair making workshops in the town but sadly most of them have gone now. Anyone who was a maker was know as a bodger. Local football team Wycombe Wanderers Are know as the chairboys, doing well this season...Of course the term Bodger means something else now...Thought it was a good choice now i own an old british bike. Both are part of Great Britain`s history...
Title: Re: New member
Post by: Bodger paul on 09.03. 2025 17:41: Quote from: a10 gf on 09.03. 2025 16:44
Welcome ! & thanks for intro.

Hello a10 gf.....Thanks for the welcome...be rude joining the group and not introducing myself...I need to work out how to post pictures now...
Title: Re: New member
Post by: muskrat on 09.03. 2025 18:25: G'day Bp *welcome*
I know you'll love the A7 as much as I love mine. Great bikes and fairly easy to maintain.
For posting pictures look here https://www.a7a10.net/forum/index.php?topic=427.0
Cheers
Title: Re: New member
Post by: Bodger paul on 09.03. 2025 19:10: Hi Muskrat...Thanks for the help with picture posting.
Title: Re: New member
Post by: scotty on 09.03. 2025 20:14: Welcome
Keep on Bodging *wink2*
Title: Re: New member
Post by: terryg on 10.03. 2025 07:43: Paul - I know High Wycombe well, my boys went to school there. The real meaning of ‘bodger’ is not lost on me but you don’t hear it much nowadays except in the derogatory sense.

As Scotty posted, ‘keep on bodging’.
Title: Re: New member
Post by: Bodger paul on 10.03. 2025 09:23: Hello Terryg...Sign of the times iam afraid...Not much produced in Great Britain anymore...Started my apprentice in 1979 along with many of my school friends...Dont think anyone in HW offers an apprentiship in furniture making anymore...I have a trainee with me now but its not the same and hes on minimum wage...
Title: Re: New member
Post by: terryg on 10.03. 2025 12:41: Paul - Ercol, a former HW furniture manufacturer now based up the road in Princes Risborough, appears to be offering apprenticeships still.

Well off topic, I know. Apologies.