Tippie
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Instead of those Italian orange wannabe Honda 77 things.
What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?
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How's the surface of the nut?Alternator oil seal replacement - that still leaks- round II to follow
Paul
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Hi Gert,
okay not Marnix but me,
cheers
Michael
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Legs
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Excellent!
chrisk
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Dellortoman
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It's not a campaign. I don't care what other people do. I just prefer actual colours on most things. Those two race bikes look great, but I reckon they'd look even better with a bit of colour. White is good for cars in sunny climates.your on your own there buddy with your anti white campaign
I just remembered, there was a white bike I lusted after in my youth: 1969 Kawasaki H1 500 (aka Mk III). I think the white on that bike somehow made it more sinister. It looked like an innocent cake of soap, but was a mad, bad, dangerous thing if you were game enough to ride it.
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Ive always used grey primer when making plugs to be cast and when fairing different shapes Vince, white reflects too much light, the grey allows you to see the shapes as they truly are with no reflections.
At least that what we use.....
I think white Laverda's look cool, nearly went with white on the 1200....
mmmmm next bike....
will post a photo next time it's off
sideshow
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Watch out some one will say they are black with two white stripesHi Gert,
okay not Marnix but me,
cheers
Michael
either way they are smokin hot
Legs
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At least they are not bloody orange 
motoddrob
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I bet Marnix has more orange than white
Shajota
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White bikes hey. I have a vivid memory of one I saw in about '73 or '74. Was in Mackay (NQ) and saw a Kawasaki Z900 parked in the street that had been painted stark white. (like Gert's Sulzbacher) I thought it looked stunning and obviously a bit unusual compared to the run of the mill Jaffa.
Anyway, next day (Sunday) we visited Seaforth (a beachside town north of Mackay) and at the beach we went to, there was a group of blokes on the latest & greatest, mainly Honda 4s and Kwaka 9s and in amongst them was the white bike. These blokes had all decided to have an impromptu sprint race straight up the beach. We were near where they started and presume they had a marked spot as a finish line but a bit further on was the swimming enclosure net.
Off they roared and didn't notice any bike in particular leading the way (traction probably evened the field even though it was fairly hard sand), but near the finish it was quite a variety of slow down and stopping manoeuvres but the one that stood out was the White bike. Don't know whether he lost his brakes or just overshot but he was heading for the swimming net at a great rate of knots.
No option but to lay it down and slide the last 50 or so metres straight into the net. Might have been a couple of others that did the same but the white one stood out!
I daresay the white paint was well and truly cattle trucked after that and no doubt quite a job extricating sand from every little orifice........
Anyway, next day (Sunday) we visited Seaforth (a beachside town north of Mackay) and at the beach we went to, there was a group of blokes on the latest & greatest, mainly Honda 4s and Kwaka 9s and in amongst them was the white bike. These blokes had all decided to have an impromptu sprint race straight up the beach. We were near where they started and presume they had a marked spot as a finish line but a bit further on was the swimming enclosure net.
Off they roared and didn't notice any bike in particular leading the way (traction probably evened the field even though it was fairly hard sand), but near the finish it was quite a variety of slow down and stopping manoeuvres but the one that stood out was the White bike. Don't know whether he lost his brakes or just overshot but he was heading for the swimming net at a great rate of knots.
No option but to lay it down and slide the last 50 or so metres straight into the net. Might have been a couple of others that did the same but the white one stood out!
I daresay the white paint was well and truly cattle trucked after that and no doubt quite a job extricating sand from every little orifice........
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can you imagine if the sfc was originally caterpillar yellow....... orange aint so bad, better than the insipid 70s colours, just my opinionAt least they are not bloody orange
The problem is not the orange colour, it's the herd effect of too many people doing the same thing.
Originality is a virtue.
Paul
Legs
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Insipid seventies colours? Orange WAS the seventies colour.
The Laverda factory must have had some orange paint left over after painting the kitchen cabinets.
(All tongue in cheek chaps)
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Yup, but at the same time if thats the bike that someone dreamed of, as they saw an Orange Laverda, SFC or not , and thats what they want, then who cares. If someone wants to make a look a like sfc then thats cool too, people do the best they can with what they have, not every one can own one either because of price or there just aren't many. My first Laverda I saw was Orange, I hate orange I mean I really hate orange, but no other colour does it for me with a Laverda.. call it a mental block, but I struggle when I think of what other colour it should be than orange, when it comes to Laverda with the old school bikini fairings on. And it has to be said , seeing a line up of 20 odd Laverda's in orange looks pretty impressive. But I come from a different age from most of you lot, you were riding Laverda's before I was even born, so maybe thats the difference too? No offence to anyone else in their colour choices, but the 70s colours are just dull and remind me of a rainy grey days.
We live in a herd its almost impossible to be an individual, and then by doing just that you become part of another herd, so in fact then you aren't even being original.