Right...let's put this old boy on a pedestal and see if he falls over! Nocim is in the ring
This bike for me has been a labour it has taken so much patience and care...at the beginning of the build I had to be brutal ......then brutal again... and yet again! To understand this take a quick peek at my thread I think the first two pics will quickly show what I mean and then scroll on for more!
Well where to begin! I've lost just about all of the build photos with tech devices going kaput..🙄 But I've salvaged a few ...they'll give an idea to the extent I've been through to save this old boy. Many many hours have gone into this....it is not really for the purists as it's not a...
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So it's all about the bike right! A collection of angles, measurements cogs, bearings and tubes that end up in something you can ride? Yup.... guess so!
Well I've bonded with this bike it rides with character it's deceptively fast when you make the effort...corners like a train....committed ....like a one way ticket..... it is a hero or be zeroed bike.
Live fast and die old it's the Nocim way
It's built of parts from all the decades it's survived and of a fair few countries and a couple of continents too...plus a few little tweaks and components made by yours truly.... all for speed and glory!
Well is it really just about the bike....hmmm no!
Its history plain and simple...this bike is old maybe 115 ! But certainly 100.......and I'm only 46.....I sure hope someone comes along and bends me back into shape when I'm history!
So it's sbout history then right? Well a bike is like a fish out of water without a person to ride it,isnt it? And history is what we experience, learn and pass on...So ....who was the man who built it,
who bought it? who went to enlist for ww1 on it, and hopefully came home on it? who borrowed it,where'd they go on it?who stole it,got drunk and crashed it?did someone find it abandoned in a ditch? Did they flee ww2 on it carrying their family? Sadly I don't know....all I know is that there might be one other Nocim ....so i hope my postings will archive the start of the next 100 years of its history.
So people make bikes....
bikes make people.......
and people make history
So the out and about theme for my ride is the people and events in history this bike has outlived!
It's random and eclectic but all local. So grab a coffee and let's visit some local graveyards
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This grave ......if big history and world powers intrigue you Google the name...if it is who it's thought to be it's a miracle she made it here!
Bit like the Nocim!
Next up another local legend...
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Much more recent...he pushed boundaries he pushed people's buttons and he put up a fight till the end.rip.
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A plane graveyard next...A devil but a gentleman ...bit like the Nocim

And let's acknowledge these guys...the guys were devils but not gentlemanly however I doubt we'd of won the battle of Britain without them and their relentless will to fight... 306 and 315 sqdns... polish.
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see that big window? I took the old one out! Local historians wet themselves as the window that came out was 100's of years older than the church....the church is about 800 years old. Walls are 7 foot thick! Crackin boozer opposite...working lunch was three pints...wash the lime mortar down!
And that's a 35 mile historical jolly japse on a 64 tooth ring...think I've earnt a beer