Out and About on your Laverda.No bull,Just photos

Otto said:
The frame was build in the eighty’s for Gijs van Dijk but he never used it.
Later he sold it and the buyer build a bike used for Trackdays. It had 16” wheels but was never really finished.
After a lot of years in a garage a Swiss guy bought the bike and Gijs rebuild the bike to what it is now. Very beautiful bike and very fast on the track!
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Did he build the frame and bodywork for the red number 04 Honda too?
Almost identical.
 
v2ventiler said:
The black one is a Bakker Laverda
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Otto said:
The frame was build in the eighty’s for Gijs van Dijk but he never used it.
Later he sold it and the buyer build a bike used for Trackdays. It had 16” wheels but was never really finished.
After a lot of years in a garage a Swiss guy bought the bike and Gijs rebuild the bike to what it is now. Very beautiful bike and very fast on the track!
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Thanks Michael and Otto!
(y)
 
henrywillms said:
My "new" project is a 1985 Dodge camper van. Same year as my RGS but definitely projects quite a different vibe. Clearly Americans and Italians had different ideas of style back on the 80's. Plan is to use it to trailer the RGS to destinations with new and interesting roads.
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Having a camper van as well (and having owned 2 more before this) I always thought that may be nice idea when the kids don't go on vacation with us any more. Looks a lot roomier than ours, ours by accident happens to be that popular Laverda colour, orange of all things (former road works company van I turned into a family camper van) Have fun, and a nice RGS too :)
 
piranha-bro2 said:
I'm sure that's just a cheeky comment with no aim other than get a reaction, Paul? :cool: If not, the moderator may take offence!
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Makes me think of all those nice road going Ducati singles transformed into pukka race bikes for a couple of outings a year and now gathering dust at the back of a garage with all the road going equipment binned.
A pity.
Paul
 
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Paul Marx said:
Makes me think of all those nice road going Ducati singles transformed into pukka race bikes for a couple of outings a year a,nd now gathering dust at the back of a garage with all the road going equipment binned.
A pity.
Paul
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Even most of those still intact road going examples see the light of day for maybe 3 Sundays a year, I haven't come across one for ages!

I do know of 2 sitting idle in garages... for years!

piet
 
MarnixSFC said:
I have one. Ride it regularly, always fun, kickstarting can be nasty. Handling ‘like a rat up a drain pipe’.

Marnix
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I had a 450 of that era, and yes it was probably the worst starting bike I have ever owned, regardless of what I did. I put the starting hassle down to the Motoplatt ignition. I was told later that you could mount the flywheel over the alternator "just so" and the ignition got a stronger pulse, don't know if it was true. It got traded in for the SF2 that I still have and am putting back on the road after many years racing classic. Later on I scored an earlier silver one, with points and it started first kick every time and went great until a mate wrote it off a year later, and I do miss that bike.
 
2-stroke Huskys had Motoplatt Ignitions as well. It was easy to set the timing wrong and suffer leg damage. They had an outer mount with a slotted adjustment that, on mine, ran out of slot. Eventually, I noticed that the outer cover was fitted incorrectly, refitted clocked around by one bolt hole, and it started much easier. In the end, it lost its spark, after sending its black box to 3 other repairers, the only successful one was done by Adelaide Shop Betta Bikes.
 
The Sock said:
Did you miss the fact that I've gone green, Andy?
Photo #3 is my old nail.
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Mea culpa Hamish. I now recall you had an attempt to go green some month’s ago, but yes I had ‘missed’ you have now accomplished the exercise. And of course, having looked more closely at your final photo ican recognise your bike (and it looks better without the after market screen…)
 
Ran my errands in busy traffic on my Laverda hot rod that used to be an SF. Great fun! Filter up to the front of the line at traffic lights, leave everything for dead, catch the next wave ahead and repeat. It'll sit idle in the shed for the next two months while I'm off on a road trip by Skoda and camper trailer to Darwin, then fly to Indonesia for 3 weeks, fly back to Darwin and find a different route back down. Supposed to leave 3 weeks ago but a death in the family and subsequent turmoil put paid to that.
 
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