TeddyG
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Out and About on your Laverda.No bull,Just photos
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piranha-bro2
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Always enjoy trips to my welder out east of Melbourne ... if I'm getting something little done, take the SFQ! 10C and the bike simply singing. I never cease to be amazed at just how fukn incredible this bike is ... even if i did build it myself! Above Yarra Glen, gateway to the Yarra Valley and amazing riding roads across several horizons - and beyond. Just an out and back to me today, but long enough to put a huge smile upon my old dial. And I need cheering up - six weeks of lung issues - a chest X-Ray today when I got back and a course of antibiotics. But I still smiled widely!
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Jo
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Here, we say that self-praise stinks. But I think that's absolute nonsense in your case!
Fingers crossed that you get your lung problems under control and can keep smiling!
Fingers crossed that you get your lung problems under control and can keep smiling!
hooksey
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Nice shot overlooking "The Glen"........?
Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond
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- Cotwolds
Only Laverda in the village at the local New Inn Willersey bike night ( aprox 600 bikes ) - plenty of interest in this bike amongst some other greats
piranha-bro2
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Been wanting to find a good spot up that hill but always end up riding past it. Very few places with no trees blocking la splendida. Always loved going up that hill in the car as a kid - like lifting off in a plane. Geez, I coulda continued on for another cuppla hunge today.
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Exmoor beast
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Lynmouth bike night, crazy hot evening.Rode out of Minehead and got stuck behind a German registered camper van ,smoking like a steel works that barely scraped up Porlock hill- gave him an English lesson and blatted off. 200+ bikes, nice little Laverda, CBX with six pipes and the National Cheese Club all riding choppers? Cracking ride home down the twisty toll road - if your in the area definately give toll road a go, stunning views.
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piranha-bro2
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Andy J
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Probably not that many Diamanté’s on the road, and that one looks pretty neat. And I agree about the toll road.
Exmoor beast
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Bloke told me there are 3 on the road?Probably not that many Diamanté’s on the road, and that one looks pretty neat. And I agree about the toll road.
Andy J
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My Viking chum’s first series Formula 500 is booked in for its Manx vehicle inspection next week, but as the tyres are about 30 years old, and in the case of the front one, slightly cracked, i’m going to swap the wheels from my ‘Monty dressed’ F500. However, the bikes were stored in different locations, which gave me a perfect excuse to go out this evening and wake the dead on the embarrassingly loud machine. Rather than take the direct route through Douglas, which isn’t ideal at the best of times on a close ratio kitted 500, I took a bit of a detour to take in a few nice twisty country back roads that so suit the 500.
Obviously, once I reached my destination near Port Soderick, I then had the task of choosing a bike to ride home. It wasn’t too difficult to decide, as the 750 Formula was parked up right at the front of the queue. I wouldn’t normally describe the Zane 750 Formulas as the most civilized of bikes, but even with the ‘open’ exhaust cans and the racey set-up, by comparison to the 500 that I had just hopped off, it was almost like traveling in a limousine. The seat, for once, felt plush and I could even hear myself think. And although the sun was starting to sink behind the hills, it was still more than warm enough for yet another (longer) detour to get back home.
Obviously, once I reached my destination near Port Soderick, I then had the task of choosing a bike to ride home. It wasn’t too difficult to decide, as the 750 Formula was parked up right at the front of the queue. I wouldn’t normally describe the Zane 750 Formulas as the most civilized of bikes, but even with the ‘open’ exhaust cans and the racey set-up, by comparison to the 500 that I had just hopped off, it was almost like traveling in a limousine. The seat, for once, felt plush and I could even hear myself think. And although the sun was starting to sink behind the hills, it was still more than warm enough for yet another (longer) detour to get back home.
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Andy J
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Yes, that’s the sort of number i’ve seen mentioned. I bought a non-running one, around the time of covid, that had been in storage for a fair few years. I got it running but p-x’d it for a 650 Formula that I had p-x’d for one of the Alto Performance race bikes. It’s now being restored by the new owner back to ‘as new’. Whether it will then gets ridden much remains to be seen.
Heading home from Eastern Creek Race circuit on my 3c, there is a Bus Lane that skirts the M2 expressway that isn't legal to ride in. Suddenly, an Orange Blur passes me at high speed. It took a while to identify this blur - Yogi, another local Laverda rider on his ex-Bob Dixon Barcelona replica. There an impressive gadget.
chrisk
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Not me out and about, but today I spied 2 Lavs on the road.
An SFC1000 southbound towards Sydney near Berowra and an orange SF3 in a back street in Muswellbrook.
All my Christmas’ have come at once.
An SFC1000 southbound towards Sydney near Berowra and an orange SF3 in a back street in Muswellbrook.
All my Christmas’ have come at once.
chrisk
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And the SF3?
Andy J
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Joined in the usual Saturday morning ride out, and as this week’s destination was only a couple of miles down the road from my place one of the little Laverdinos was the obvious choice. Took a slightly longer route home via a couple of country lanes, one of which passes Lonan ‘new’ church. The promised rain has now arrived, which might be a blessing for all the mad fools involved in today’s annual 85 mile parish ‘walk’.
