What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?

[andre g]

Wanted to use the RGS to visit my mum. Started the bike but at the first traffic light the engine stopped and the bike had a black out, no starter, no lights, no horn- nothing.
So I pushed that heavy piece of steel home, just 500 m. Checked battery, ok, cables at the batt, ok, fuses, ok. Did not find the failure?.
Maybe, it is the ignition switch connector, but I wanted to go and will find the failure later.
Better to have more than one Lav.

So took the SFC, helped the lean battery starting with my car and went on the way to visit my mum.

It was a fantastic ride, a bit cold temps but nice roads. On my way back, it became dark an I used the highway but made 420 k this afternoon, maybe last time this year.

 

[andre g]

 

[78jotadave]

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Nice bike Andre, having worked for several years erecting wind turbines I am interested to know where these pictures were taken.

 

[chrisk]

Nice bike Andre, having worked for several years erecting wind turbines I am interested to know where these pictures were taken.

Never mind the fans, how was your mum?

 

[andre g]

Never mind the fans, how was your mum?

Maybe my mum was happy to see me but I do not know whether she recognized me. She lives in a retirement home and has Alzheimer. But sometimes I have to visit her. She feels well but for me it is more difficult to see her in that condition. It is always a nice tour with my bike.

 

[Jo]

Maybe my mum was happy to see me but I do not know whether she recognized me. She lives in a retirement home and has Alzheimer. But sometimes I have to visit her. She feels well but for me it is more difficult to see her in that condition. It is always a nice tour with my bike.

Alzheimer's is a difficult thing - to have the person in front of you, but to no longer be able to connect to the old close ties is very bitter.
It was the same with one of my grandmothers, after her death I noticed that the actual farewell was much earlier.

My parents are still fit in this regard, but there are enough problem areas here too ...

Cheers,
Jo

 

[andre g]

Nice bike Andre, having worked for several years erecting wind turbines I am interested to know where these pictures were taken.

Thats the area we call Haarstrang, first line of hills in Germany between Dortmund and Kassel if you comming from the north.
Very good area for wind turbines and there are hundreds also big ones with 3MW + I asume.
The danger is when you pass the area by bike you watch them moving and the road becomes less intresting

 

[Paul Marx]

Thats the area we call Haarstrang, first line of hills in Germany between Dortmund and Kassel if you comming from the north.
Very good area for wind turbines and there are hundreds also big ones with 3MW + I asume.
The danger is when you pass the area by bike you watch them moving and the road becomes less intresting

Same with girls who also have a lot of wind up them sometimes.

Paul

 

[andre g]

The reason that the RGS had no function when the engine stopped at the traffic light was the battery.. Although it was just loaded and I could start the engine three times that morning. When I looked at the bike today and turned the key the neutral lamp burned but got off when I pushed the start button. Measured the tension, it showed 12.8 V but when swiched on ignition it went down to 3 V.
Took the tension from the other bike everthing worked fine…, so I am lucky, no big issue.

 

[chrisk]

Maybe my mum was happy to see me but I do not know whether she recognized me. She lives in a retirement home and has Alzheimer. But sometimes I have to visit her. She feels well but for me it is more difficult to see her in that condition.

Bugger.

 

[natm]

Run to Portballintrae harbour.

 

[78jotadave]

Maybe my mum was happy to see me but I do not know whether she recognized me. She lives in a retirement home and has Alzheimer. But sometimes I have to visit her. She feels well but for me it is more difficult to see her in that condition. It is always a nice tour with my bike.

Andre, Alzheimer is a twice wicked disease first you lose your parent to the disease and then years later you lose them again when they die. My Dad went this way after years of being with us but not really. Now call me paranoid but every time I can't remember something ...

 

[78jotadave]

I now have functional turn signals on the Jota after 15+years of not having any at all, now I have to remember to turn them off, oh shit (see my post above).

 

[piranha-bro2]

I'm continually finding myself searching for a name that has escaped me - but then it'll come to me. But it IS concerning! I do not want to live or die from Alzheimers. I see no point once it's got you.

 

[78jotadave]

I'm continually finding myself searching for a name that has escaped me - but then it'll come to me. But it IS concerning! I do not want to live or die from Alzheimers. I see no point once it's got you.

The problem is you get to the stage when you don't know you have it, it's evil.

 

[mauricejota7604]

Run to Portballintrae harbour.

SF3 such a rare Laverda, beautiful!!!!!

 

[Ventodue]

SF3 such a rare Laverda, beautiful!!!!!

Yeah, I've always liked 'em too. Tried to find one before getting my SF2, but nothing came along at the time.

Nice. The silver suits them well, IMO - 'Beauty being in the eye of the beholder' 'n all that ...

 

[CLEMTOG]

I wish I knew why, but my own (now sold on) and several other SF3's that I have ridden, all seem to go much better than other 36mm carb equipped and similar engined ones, they did something and didnt tell us what it was, and it cannot easilly be seen, I would have another oneat the drop of a ten bob note
CLEM

 

[chrisk]

SF3 such a rare Laverda, beautiful!!!!!

I’ve always thought a Jota style hump seat would set the SF3 off beautifully.

 

[Paul Marx]

I always thought of the SF3 as a rather sad end to a glorious line of bikes. A bit like a beautiful woman, or man, who cannot accept ageing and plasters her/himself in makeup.

Paul