A brief chat with... Paul Goff
The Classic MotorCycle|February 2021
Interviewing for these ‘chat’ features has revealed a regular theme – the subject has become involved in fettling old motorcycles because of a personal experience.
TIM BRITTON
A brief chat with... Paul Goff

Such is the case with Paul Goff, riding to his local bike club one dark evening he realised there was a queue of cars tailing behind him as he peered into the gloom ahead. “Normally it was me stuck behind the cars,” he says, “but the weather was terrible and my headlight not exactly brilliant, something had to be done.” Paul remembered seeing an advert for quartz halogen bulbs to fit British headlamps but couldn’t find the advertiser. “I did find an Indian company who would happily make me the bulbs in 6V or 12V with a range of Watts too…as long as I ordered a 1000 of each. I continued riding slowly and carefully at night…”

The idea of being able to see at night or in poor weather didn’t go away though and as is often the case, fate took a hand.

At the time Paul was working for a small engineering company making equipment for the food industry, the worker/management relationship became less than ideal and ended up with Paul being invited to explore opportunities outwith the company – made redundant in other words. “I’d been involved in autojumbling for a few years as a way to keep my own bikes running and realised there would more than me who would benefit from better lights, so I invested the redundancy in a few thousand quartz halogen light bulbs, took adverts in Old Bike

Mart and attended as many autojumbles as I could find.” The breakthrough jumble was Netley Marsh when Paul realised there could well be a living to be made from ensuring users of British motorcycles could see where they were going at night.

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