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

Out for the weekend. Great to be riding be it in a persistent drizzle and with the roads made slippery because of the sugar beet.
My joints find it very difficult getting in and out of the tent and undressing or dressing in the same tent. Not to mention a pee in the night.
The cemetery is Pozières British cemetery, Somme. Most of the headstones are Australian or Canadian.
Paul
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Paul Marx said:
Out for the weekend. Great to be riding be it in a persistent drizzle and with the roads made slippery because of the sugar beet.
My joints find it very difficult getting in and out of the tent and undressing or dressing in the same tent. Not to mention a pee in the night.
The cemetery is Pozières British cemetery, Somme. Most of the headstones are Australian or Canadian.
Paul
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Love the moped with the trailer- in UK the police would be on you in five minutes, your guys been riding that for years! Nice to see old bikes out there being bikes.
 
This looks definitely non AI Gert!
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With my SF1 I’d some cold & snow experience – but no pic. With my Millers though I’ve pics (but this is of course a little OT) – Effelsberg March 06:
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And Nockberge Sep 17:
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2006 I think we did a "Season-End-Tour" into the Alps from Immenstadt into Switzerland and back. Bikes suffered a lot, almost everything that was chromed, zink plated or bare metall was rusty afterwards due to the massive use of salt on the roads. when we came down the Alps, we used the first tank stop with a pressure washer to get rid of the roughly 1 cm of salt that had built up like fins on the downpipes...

Although they used salt to a great extend, the tour down we were almost sliding in every corner... did not feel very comfortable really...

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From left to right below: Me (1000 SFC), Markus (on my Jota), Jörg Laden (R.I.P., on his beautiful and quick SF1) and Peter Ostermeyer (R.I.P. - not sure - SF or GTL?). Lucky times that I miss to be able to repeat...
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Jo said:
This looks definitely non AI Gert!
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With my SF1 I’d some cold & snow experience – but no pic. With my Millers though I’ve pics (but this is of course a little OT) – Effelsberg March 06:




And Nockberge Sep 17:
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😳 That is exactly the spot I stopped, to take a movie of Tom Calvert coming towards me in 2019! I remember sitting on the armco having a quiet smoke while waiting.
 
Even in Sunny Australia, we have ridden past plenty of Snow on the roadside in Tassie, and that was mid November, just before Summer, the Snowy Mountains and even Shooters Hill near Oberon 150ks west of Sydney. No salt used around here, though. Gets a bit concerning when blokes on modern bikes with us say they're getting Black Ice warnings on their dashboards.
 
Gerald said:
Thanks for sharing Lothar,
Peters 750 was a S, now restored by the current owner.

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Thanks for keeping me honest, Gerald, wasn't sure really. Seems it had different brakes than the S, that is why I thought it's an SF maybe.

Man, I miss both Jörg and Peter... Hope you safely ride in heaven together, and have good laughes, just as we always had together... RIP...
 
Paul Marx said:
Out for the weekend. Great to be riding be it in a persistent drizzle and with the roads made slippery because of the sugar beet.
My joints find it very difficult getting in and out of the tent and undressing or dressing in the same tent. Not to mention a pee in the night.
The cemetery is Pozières British cemetery, Somme. Most of the headstones are Australian or Canadian.
Paul
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My grandfather and wife’s grandfather dodged bullets at The Somme. Both came home, some of their mates will be under those gravestones.

Closest I got to enemy fire at Somme was being pulled up by the cops at a service station at Somme. Too loud, too fast and too big…… then they picked on the bike 🤣🤣🤣
 
chrisk said:
My grandfather and wife’s grandfather dodged bullets at The Somme. Both came home, some of their mates will be under those gravestones.

Closest I got to enemy fire at Somme was being pulled up by the cops at a service station at Somme. Too loud, too fast and too big…… then they picked on the bike 🤣🤣🤣
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Tens of thousands of men are still missing. 45 000 missing around the town of Ypres.
Hundreds are dug up every year.
Not to mention tons of munitions including many mustard gas shells.
Drinking water is regularly polluted by by products of explosives.

If you pass this way, go to Fromelles where inexperienced Australian soldiers were pitted against seasoned German troops.

Battle of Fromelles | Australian War Memorial

www.awm.gov.au www.awm.gov.au
 
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