This section on the site is to tell a little bit about ourselves, how the site came into being, and our positions within the organisation itself.

How B.I.R.D. came into being

Over 2500 members across all major continents making us truly "International"

The current membership have posted over 200,000 posts on 20000 subject lines in our members forum accumulating over 185,000 website hits.

John Smith "The BIRD Guru"

A few words about myself. I was born quite young and much to my shame have steadily got older. Although I look 53 but I am really 19. A wicked witch did this to me! At the age of 14 and ¾ I collected my first bike, swiftly followed by my first introduction to the lovely boys in blue and the first of many visits to the local court ! L L

In 1971 I moved to Norfolk in the east of England ( mainly to get away from plod ! ).

I have had way too many bikes, women, and careers ( though necessarily not in that order ! ) to list on here, but….

At this moment in time I own a 2000 Fi Blackbird,  a hybrid Yamaha DT175, and a Honda XL250. Whilst still on the subject of bikes, I try and build at least one special every  year. I have built all kinds of  bikes, from really wild chops back in the 70’s, to streetfighters, to my oddball DT ! This year it is a Monkey Bike of all things.

Although my first love has always been bikes I also hold a ham radio licence, and run a ham ‘packet radio BBS’ …

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Fat Bert - Webmaster

 New to the scene and not really Fat - bought my first BlackBird following ownership of 3 x CBR1000's

Live in Central England, married, 3 nippers and one hell of an overdraft!!

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