Club Laverda NSW Brass Monkey run 27-28th May 2023

Great weekend away with the CLNSW mob, then to meet the CLQLD mob in Walcha was icing on the cake !
As usual, bullshit and banter of varying quantities made for even more enjoyment added to the riding.

The older group had a good run up and over the mountains, and then the 3 Dell equipped 180's (75 3c, 76 JOTA and 79 JOTA) grouped together at the front as the road opened up, and enjoyed the long roller coaster run into Walcha. Marty, Joel and Yam David tucked in behind. The setting sun was a bugger for a while......
With the warbling of the JOTA pipes a nice accompaniment to the rapidly dropping temperatures (and cooling fingers and toes).

As for Brett's stop, I think he just wanted to leave the younger set up front and enjoy riding with the other 180 1000's and young Joel on his RE 650.
80k's of continuous bend swinging in a conga line of LAVs with booming exhausts is one of lifes pleasures that just has to be experienced.
Great lead out Brett, good pace that enabled all of us to enjoy the ride, and l reckon Joel really enjoyed it by the smile on his dial !
Well done young man.

I am surprised nobody has started a battery topic following Sunday mornings varying starting procedures, but there is always time !

As for the loss of hair, Debs LAVERDA hoodies did a wonderful job of keeping our chrome domes nice and warm on Saturday night and Sunday morning.

My ride back home back along the Oxley was uneventful till I came to a young fella who had dropped his cruiser after sliding on one of those drainage ditches. Good clothing saved him any damage, but the bike was gravel rashed all down down the rhs, even tho on a signposted 35kph corner at Mount Seaview. He got mobile so I motored off having a giggle at his comment 'man that bike is loud, I could hear you for about 3 minutes coming down the mountain'.
Think my rejoiner of 'stock standard JOTA pipes' left him puzzled.

Another smile weekend with the mob. THANKS CHAPS.
 
A great turnup from the NSW and QLD clubs. It was fantastic to see so many faces at the Commercial Hotel on Saturday night.
Given the circumstances that preceded Saturdays ride it was very surreal for so many of us to be together so soon after Jimmy's passing.
I have to say I was stoked to see so much Bellingen regalia being displayed by so many. From 2004 right through to 2022 the entire collection was on show.
As for Walcha, man that place is cold. I could not live there! No wonder the sloppy joes and Beanies were out in force.
 
Good point David, some genius decided that the newly laid road surface where the recent huge rains destroyed the road needed a channel maybe 80mm wide cut into the hot mix across the road right on the apex where you're at max lean and need maximum traction, its been filled by something that's a different colour, it upsets the bike especially if you're trying hard. I thought it was a Construction joint but I have never seen or felt anything like it before. After doing that ride a few years ago and experiencing that low Sun blinding thing I had noticed that Wilfred, Germain bloke out in Oz for The Huge Barry Sheen event had a great gadget attached to his helmet. It was a Plastic see-through Sun Sheild Approx 30mm wide that clipped behind your visor just below your eyebrow line that acted as a Sun Sheild. I bought one and used it on my old Shoei and it was a great gadget.I just googled this and couldn't find them. But my new helmet has an even better built-in sun visor but even both these gadgets have limits when the sun is impossible to See past. It's called Sun Strike and is checked for in Police investigations of serious crashes. It's killed a lot of people here. There are road signs between Narrabri and Wee Waa warning of it, smart people don't drive in the last hours of the day because it's so dangerous.
 
Quick question for the locals, does the M1 Motorway still have a speed limit on Sunday afternoons? Lately, on a Sunday afternoon heading back to Sydney, it's becoming faster and faster. Traffic used to cruise at just under 120kph, lately it's now just under 130. Chris and I arrived at about the same time at Hornsby doing similar speeds and not blowing past that many cars. It's getting close to normal world expressway speeds instead of our below 110 I am used to seeing.
 
I’ve got a built in sun shield but I find this mod, as recommended by some of the guys last year at Paul Ricard, to work really well.
 

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Back in the old days, pre full face helmets, a peak attached to the helmet worked wonders not only for keeping the sun out of the eyes but also for deflecting rain off the goggles.
Too cold for an open face at Walcha though.
 
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Crown pub on the Clarence river. 'tis big river country down in the northern rivers area and surrounding ranges
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Bruce and I cannot recall the last time we were out riding together between country pubs. Maybe decades?
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The Richmond river at Casino.

Reckon we had Jimmy to thank for the fine weather. RIP Jim.
Although, one bloke from the north QLD cane-fields has not been that bloody cold in Australia in a big long time.
 
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