motoddrob
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What did you do to or for or with your Laverda today?
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Andy
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Betcha mate had a ball on your Motodd!!!
motoddrob
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Yep,
Couldn't believe how pricise and stable it was.
Couldn't believe how pricise and stable it was.
motoddrob
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Yes Tom, it does sound nice. Looks like a factory 3/1 with a baffle added. Goes really well. Also has 36mm Dells fitted.
Bloody patch of oil on the concrete floor from a leaking neutral light switch!!
Motodds better though!!
Andy J, It's my mate Brook's bike.
Bloody patch of oil on the concrete floor from a leaking neutral light switch!!
Motodds better though!!
Andy J, It's my mate Brook's bike.
stevepm2011
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I spent a bit of time assembling my 3-D printed footrest rubbers. They are printed in TPU, which is very flexible & tough, also resistant to most chemicals. I can tune the hardness by altering the amount of infill (20% - 40% seems to be the right range) and the number of perimeter layers (4-6)
Exmoor beast
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Cracking picture- I actually like that blue!
Exmoor beast
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When I shared the CND workshop it was above a car garage, second floor. Everything was hoisted up on a winch and run in through an upstairs door on a sliding rail. Bear in mind we specialised in V- Max, Laverda, Pan European - Bruce even built a V8 bike up there.
I always used to sweat a bit as the wires ticked as they took up the slack. Kay’s of Ealing were a Triumph dealer that were downstairs!
RGS1000RGS
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Kay's of Ealing? That's a 'blast from the past'! My go to for engineering tools in the early 80s. I was sprogged and grew up near Greenford, went to Ealing Green High next door to Pitshangar House on the Green at the end of Bond Street.!
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RGS1000RGS
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Got a bit more work done on the RGA Sprint over Christmas, with the intent of getting the Sprint off the bike bench as I need to get the Guzzi in for it's top end refurb. I had hoped to start building the wiring over Christmas, but unfortunotely Christmas and New Year visitors didn't allow for enough time to get that far. I have managed to get the external Mocal oil filter located and secured, and finally worked out the pipe and fitting requirements. The oil cooler required a slight amount of fettling to allow the M22 1/2 inch hydraulic fittings to fit. I'm just waiting for some appropriate sized heatshrink to arrive to make the oil transfer pipes.
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stevepm2011
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I am of the same mind, Paul. I intend to sell 2 or 3 this year.
Exmoor beast
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My first job in the bike world at sixteen was just behind Kay’s at Sandringham Mews working at Misdemeaner Motorcycles ( spelt correctly) next to Snob’s Show & Go. Bit of an education building choppers ..Greenford Motorcycle City was big in those days.
Jo
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Good morning Steve,
what happened to the 3CL that you (I think) bought in 2024?
Cheers,
Jo
Selling is easy, the difficult part is finding buyers.
Not too difficult if you realise that what your pride and joy was "worth" 5 years back has been halved.
Paul
RGS1000RGS
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Two coincidences from your's and mine's past. One is that my brother was a mate of the manager of Keelers then Motorcycle City, Brian Phillips; He used to proddy race a Yamaha RD, and another mate, Milkbottles (on account of his glasses) used to work there in parts & accessories. Brian later went on to run a breakers in Hayes, and one of my best mates worked for him for a while. The other coincidence is that I was acquanted with Snob. I used to hang out at the 'Ace Cafe' on the A40 at Perivale, in the late 70s and early '80s and Snob and some of his mates, Nigel was one of them, used to hang out there, too. It was years later, and I was watching some of the Queens Jubilee celebrations, must have been 2002, and there was a motorcycle procession riding up the mail. The TV presenter announced, in a slightly poo-faced fashion, that it was led by 'Snob'.. I almost fell off my chair! I later found out that he was the Press Liason for the Angels, which didn't surpise me as I knew he and Nigel had become 'prospects'. It's a small world!
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Exmoor beast
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Bob Keeler ( of van hire fame) was a very good racer- I also knew Brian Phillips, I tried to by a Zündapp Rickman mini mettisse off him, it was £100! I did buy other various bits from him. Snob had a Comma van with sliding door, he would drive down past us, hand brake on, jump out and the van would skid to a halt and the door would slam- I thought this was really cool back then. I used to ride my Fizzy to work and Snobs lot would be ask to have a go- big fat hairy bikers on my little fizz. I tried to get a job with Bill at Reg Allen’s but he had two sons- all colour blind so electrics must have been fun! I sent my CV to all the bike shops and ended getting two jobs at once so I gave one to my mate so to speak- it was at Hayes Moto cross spares/ breakers. His first job was to skip all the tons of twinshock Maico stuff- heartbreaking even then for us young lads. Also asked at my local Laverda shop….still haven’t heard anything!
RGS1000RGS
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The good old days. eh? Snob and some of his mates had a house down in Isleworth for a while. It was something to envy to a 17 year old who lived bikes when you saw a motorcycle or two parked in the hallway! I moved from the Ealing area in 1987, then back to Perivale in 1996, and stayed there until 2003, when I moved out to Surrey, as I was working at Heathrow. My mother always lived in the borough, from birth until she died in 2021. I used to keep my bikes at her house off Pope's Lane until 2003, and used to go back to Bill Bunn's Motorcycles on South Ealing Road, for MOTs for quite a few years. Bill and his son were always helpful! I doubt if Brian is with us now. He and his wife were living on a canal boat on the Grand Union canal at Hayes , opposite to where he had his breakers/workshop business, the last time I saw him, which was probably 25 years ago. My mate, who had worked for Brian, went on to work at a bike shop in Hayes End, which HGB of Ruislip had brought from it's former owner. They were a bunch of shysters who left him high and dry after he'd had an serious accident whilst working.Bob Keeler ( of van hire fame) was a very good racer- I also knew Brian Phillips, I tried to by a Zündapp Rickman mini mettisse off him, it was £100! I did buy other various bits from him. Snob had a Comma van with sliding door, he would drive down past us, hand brake on, jump out and the van would skid to a halt and the door would slam- I thought this was really cool back then. I used to ride my Fizzy to work and Snobs lot would be ask to have a go- big fat hairy bikers on my little fizz. I tried to get a job with Bill at Reg Allen’s but he had two sons- all colour blind so electrics must have been fun! I sent my CV to all the bike shops and ended getting two jobs at once so I gave one to my mate so to speak- it was at Hayes Moto cross spares/ breakers. His first job was to skip all the tons of twinshock Maico stuff- heartbreaking even then for us young lads. Also asked at my local Laverda shop….still haven’t heard anything!
