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

Alzero said:
Don’t you mean Cannery Row? Where all the packing houses were in Monterey, now where all the waterfront bars and restaurants are today? Where we would drink and eat and drink on trips to watch races at Laguna Seca……….
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Isn't skid row a generic term for a place where people on the edge of society live?

Paul
 
Yes, but Steinbeck wrote about Cannery Row in Monterey, Ca. Cannery Row was never a Skid Row where alcoholics and the homeless lived, more of a rough and tumble place where the working class found low paying jobs canning sardines. It was also where the fishing fleet and the fishermen were along with the bars that catered to them, but all these folks had jobs, no matter how low paying. Unlike the Skid Rows of today where you find mostly the drugged, the drunk and the mentally ill. In Los Angeles, Skid Row is on Fifth St and is known as the Nickel….. As in “down on the Nickel”.
 
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Took the 74 for a spin to get the oil hot enough for a change, the spin ended up being over an hour with a stop for ice cream. Later found out my pretty paintjob is not as pretty in places where you don't look right away :rolleyes:. Lots of red paint flakes on the petcock fuel filter and dodgy prep.

A question regarding early triple tanks: I used a tank off the shelf and took the one that looked best on the inside. I figured since I am using linked carbs that would work out fine. But the tank is so narrow that I can't fit original petcocks - which is a bit of a mystery as the engine sure is the same width. When did the factory change the tank design?
 

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Alzero said:
Don’t you mean Cannery Row? Where all the packing houses were in Monterey, now where all the waterfront bars and restaurants are today? Where we would drink and eat and drink on trips to watch races at Laguna Seca……….
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ditto, and watched Gary Rothwell do his stunt thing up and down the street. during one of the WSBK weekends.
 
Laverda1000.de said:
A question regarding early triple tanks: I used a tank off the shelf and took the one that looked best on the inside. I figured since I am using linked carbs that would work out fine. But the tank is so narrow that I can't fit original petcocks - which is a bit of a mystery as the engine sure is the same width. When did the factory change the tank design?
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80 81 are wider tanks, prior to those years all the same, sugar cube taps. HTH j
 
Alzero said:
Yes, but Steinbeck wrote about Cannery Row in Monterey, Ca. Cannery Row was never a Skid Row where alcoholics and the homeless lived, more of a rough and tumble place where the working class found low paying jobs canning sardines. It was also where the fishing fleet and the fishermen were along with the bars that catered to them, but all these folks had jobs, no matter how low paying. Unlike the Skid Rows of today where you find mostly the drugged, the drunk and the mentally ill. In Los Angeles, Skid Row is on Fifth St and is known as the Nickel….. As in “down on the Nickel”.
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I seem to remember quite a few alcoholics, homeless and to say the least originals in Steinbeck's descriptions. Memories of the biography of his friend in the Log from the sea of Cortez.

Paul
 
His book was fiction, all his books were fiction. Including the so-called nonfiction ones like Travels with Charlie and the Log. He embellished the facts for a good story and to sell books like all bestselling Writers. The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a comprehensive history of Cannery Row and the Bay. While it was the wrong side of the tracks, it was no skid row as we think of it today.
 
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Nice job. I was in Thailand a couple of weeks ago (first time) and fell in love with the place and really appreciated the spirituality there. I can't wait to go back. No Laverda, but a Honda scooter for darting about on, which was a heap of fun.
 
Those impressive looking Scorch frames have certainly proved their worth. Especially considering that the builder was pretty much unknown at the time, and probably still is unknown outside of the Laverda world. Excellent bit of design collaboration with the manufacturer in South Africa.
 
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