Club Laverda NSW Brass Monkey run 29-30th May

[The Sock]

Donga Explanation and Origin

 

[hooksey]

Tis only stored water that you need to be careful with, as Cam alluded to.
Continuous flow Hotties not a problem.
Bazzee your plumba is correct re 50c at basins n showers, can be 60c plus at Kitchen sinks and laundry's.
Costly to achieve in existing houses but new builds run a hot and a tempered line from HWS.
Your new HWS water temp can be bumped up.................

 

[bazzee]

Tis only stored water that you need to be careful with, as Cam alluded to.
Continuous flow Hotties not a problem.
Bazzee your plumba is correct re 50c at basins n showers, can be 60c plus at Kitchen sinks and laundry's.
Costly to achieve in existing houses but new builds run a hot and a tempered line from HWS.
Your new HWS water temp can be bumped up.................

Thanks for that explanation. The house is 110 years old and the hot water piping is attached to the exterior walls. It may be relatively easy to temper the feed to the bathroom while maintaining full heat to the kitchen and laundry.

cheers,

bazzee

seems to be a bit off topic here...

 

[mauricejota7604]

Have fun you Aussie Laverda riders

 

[Dellortoman]

When our water heater was replaced a couple of years ago the plumber told us it was legally restricted to a maximum of 50C. I am guessing this is to prevent people from accidentally scalding themselves.

I presume that was an instantaneous (gas-fired?) heater, not a hot water storage tank.

It's OK for instant water heaters to be set at temps lower than 60C because they don't store warm water where bacteria can grow. It's only hot water storage cylinders that are at risk of bacterial growth. They have a big tank of relatively stagnant heated water that can behave like a massive petri dish if not kept above the critical temperature.

PS: Oops. I just saw that Hooksey already said that in an earlier post.

 

[bazzee]

I presume that was an instantaneous (gas-fired?) heater, not a hot water storage tank.

It's OK for instant water heaters to be set at temps lower than 60C because they don't store warm water where bacteria can grow. It's only hot water storage cylinders that are at risk of bacterial growth. They have a big tank of relatively stagnant heated water that can behave like a massive petri dish if not kept above the critical temperature.

PS: Oops. I just saw that Hooksey already said that in an earlier post.

The previous unit was gas-fired storage, replaced by gas-fired instantaneous. Supposed to be better, cheaper, blah blah blah.

cheers

bazzee

 

[DaveB]

Ah, lockdown fail was in South Oz Quentin I believe.. but still a shite result for you lot.. we are off to NSW this weekend.. hopefully we Qlders will be allowed home..

They’re blaming us any way they can, but Vics still could have tested those people arriving from SA.
Either way, it’s a Federal responsibility, but Scott Moribund and his mob couldn’t run a chook raffle.

 

[Legs]

Shall we leave the blame-game to the pollies, they are well practiced at it.

 

[piranha-bro2]

I'm certainly not blaming the Crowies (SAers). Absolutely dump the blame fairly and squarely on Morrison and his band of halfwits - they've had a year to build dedicated quarantine facilities - and they've known about airborn spread for probably 6 months. Virtually every 'leak' of this virum has come out of hotels.

 

[2622]

So after a rather quiet night Friday night with Tommy Boy we got started ( well eventually in the case of the Red 3C hmm should have charged the battery lucky Tom was there to assist with a push ) we made it to the meet on good time.
Nick had ridden out to join us but would only becoming to grey gums.’we headed off once Carlos and his mate arrived for breakfast. Vince must have been hungry as to everyone’s amazement he sailed past all of us to lead the way I only caught him in the final bends before grey gums.
Anyway he led us in and before I could get my gear off Vince was already in ordering
As we were all surprised by this new turn of speed from Vince he explained the he’s got new glasses and can now see.
This prompted Stu to ask how had he been getting on before on rides by memory perhaps? Oh and he also said he’d tightened the steering head bearings
After breakfast we headed for the next leg via east gresford and some brilliant (not) patchwork blacktop.
Seems that took its toll on Carlos fairing bracket so whilst most of us tucked in for lunch at the pub he carried out the repairs out side the hardware.
Reckon most of us with faired Laverda’s have managed at sometime to break that bolt
So once he’d affected the repair we headed off seems we were split into two groups
Myself Tom ( skinny one ) and Stu took off then we decided to wait at the turnoff at Thunderbolts only to see Vince sail on past hmm perhaps those new glasses aren’t so good after all
Then Ross turned up so Vince stayed as corner Marshall whist us 4 headed off
We waited at the lookout for a while then Ross mentioned that he was carrying g Carlos’s tools so he stayed and the three of us headed into Walcha to find John sitting there already with a beer in hand as he had come down from Nth NSW
When Tommy boy rolled in it seems he’d suffered a broken clutch cable lucky he was carrying a spare so with Marty’s help he was sorted
The Qld mob turned up at their salubrious abode up town as we got a call from Paul regarding dinner
We all wandered up round 6.30ish and it turned out that there was like 20 of us there in total
Good to catch Levo and Bruce and Jimmy along with Cozi and uncle Paul, Lowy and some others whose names escaped me
The Publican must have been happy for the business Cosi drink them out of at least one type of Red
Now young Tom was amazed that Paul Cosi and myself all had the same foot ware on, sat all together and all ordered T Bones
He said must be a team Redax thing or something
When us lot finally got back to our digs young Tom persuaded Tommy Boy and myself into one last Corona only fir him to open it take one half mouthful and promptly pike it and head to bed ...
So Tommy Boy and myself did the right thing and finished ours
This morning it’s not as cold as we thought oh we haven’t yet seen the others surface but seems Tommy Boy and myself must have done something right as the fire was still going so we’ve been able to order eggs
All the others are still ticked up in their beds it seems

 

[2622]

Some more

 

[2622]

Hmm seems the new shock

So after a rather quiet night Friday night with Tommy Boy we got started ( well eventually in the case of the Red 3C hmm should have charged the battery lucky Tom was there to assist with a push ) we made it to the meet on good time.
Nick had ridden out to join us but would only becoming to grey gums.’we headed off once Carlos and his mate arrived for breakfast. Vince must have been hungry as to everyone’s amazement he sailed past all of us to lead the way I only caught him in the final bends before grey gums.
Anyway he led us in and before I could get my gear off Vince was already in ordering
As we were all surprised by this new turn of speed from Vince he explained the he’s got new glasses and can now see.
This prompted Stu to ask how had he been getting on before on rides by memory perhaps? Oh and he also said he’d tightened the steering head bearings
After breakfast we headed for the next leg via east gresford and some brilliant (not) patchwork blacktop.
Seems that took its toll on Carlos fairing bracket so whilst most of us tucked in for lunch at the pub he carried out the repairs out side the hardware.
Reckon most of us with faired Laverda’s have managed at sometime to break that bolt
So once he’d affected the repair we headed off seems we were split into two groups
Myself Tom ( skinny one ) and Stu took off then we decided to wait at the turnoff at Thunderbolts only to see Vince sail on past hmm perhaps those new glasses aren’t so good after all
Then Ross turned up so Vince stayed as corner Marshall whist us 4 headed off
We waited at the lookout for a while then Ross mentioned that he was carrying g Carlos’s tools so he stayed and the three of us headed into Walcha to find John sitting there already with a beer in hand as he had come down from Nth NSW
When Tommy boy rolled in it seems he’d suffered a broken clutch cable lucky he was carrying a spare so with Marty’s help he was sorted
The Qld mob turned up at their salubrious abode up town as we got a call from Paul regarding dinner
We all wandered up round 6.30ish and it turned out that there was like 20 of us there in total
Good to catch Levo and Bruce and Jimmy along with Cozi and uncle Paul, Lowy and some others whose names escaped me
The Publican must have been happy for the business Cosi drink them out of at least one type of Red
Now young Tom was amazed that Paul Cosi and myself all had the same foot ware on, sat all together and all ordered T Bones
He said must be a team Redax thing or something
When us lot finally got back to our digs young Tom persuaded Tommy Boy and myself into one last Corona only fir him to open it take one half mouthful and promptly pike it and head to bed ...
So Tommy Boy and myself did the right thing and finished ours
This morning it’s not as cold as we thought oh we haven’t yet seen the others surface but seems Tommy Boy and myself must have done something right as the fire was still going so we’ve been able to order eggs
All the others are still ticked up in their beds it seems

s that young Tom is sporting alleviates the need to turn off the fuel taps

 

[Vince]

Absolutely EPIC, Almost Moby Dick but couldn't find a whale. Or maybe War and Peace, especially after the randum Victorian Laverda owner encounter at Nundle. Somewhere along the line we rode Laverdas on some VARIABLE roads and VARIABLE weather. Quick tip for a great ride, get the media to sprook constantly for a week about how bad the weekends weather will be so 90% of the population stays home and leaves it to us. Someone had a great idea to head home via The Old Rd and Pie in the Sky, great road to end the weekend on and pies for dinner, you beauty.

 

[martymoose]

Thanks guys I had a ball, 3500 km on the 750 now, super happy, except when you all leave me for dead up the hills.

 

[martymoose]

Vince helping Tom change his clutch cable by doing a Broadway musical

 

[cbertozz]

lets keep up the Vince motif

 

[cbertozz]

Thanks to Marty for organising another great ride.

 

[2622]

lets keep up the Vince motif

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Ok how about the race prep before the run into Singleton then huh Oh sorry to Hi jack back on track

 

[2622]

So there were sure some sore heads this morning with more than just TC desperately looking for Voltaren rapid 12.5’s then again the 3C didnt want to fire the starter clutch growling and grinding but John K save the day with his neat little jump start pack.. a must have definitely on the list for sure... fired up then left TC ( skinny Tom ) to work the throttle .... one job he had and failed miserably. So got it going again and subbed in the publication Toni to do the job albeit with a little coaching from TC ( Tommy Boy ). Now we are all going so off to fill up .. then after fueling up Marty decided not to pass by the top pub and bid goodbye to the QLD Mod and instead we headed back down Thurnderbolts.. now a good thing that the sailors with us ( hmm maybe not those kind of sailors but the other type perhaps ) made the prediction that the storms would blow out to the coast... so guess was just some hi flying birds pissing on us but boy the roads sure looked wet and so was my visor it seems.
Turned onto the road to Nundle ( as we decided to take the tar route rather than the original adventure bike surfaces. then after a bit more of the bird pissing and one fog... it all abated and we had a cracking run down Port Stephen’s cutting and into Nundle... seems Vince’s new glasses may not be that good as he sailed past us and then parked in a no standing zone..
Tommy boy had a yarn with a Vic club member who is dong the disbane of motorcyclist’s and instead of riding he is towing a mobile chicanne behind a bloody Toyota of all things..Some donuts and coffee and some more now Neurofen as we ran out of Voltaren by then... and off on the trip homeward bound.
We then had a spirited run out to the New England quick stop at Willow Tree and some fuel and then off into Singleton lost Carlos the others caught up at the servo and then Tommy Boy , David and myself headed home via the Putty so I wouldn’t have to fill out my log book.
We were blessed on the Putty nothing in front of us in the bends and then after that we had like 2 cars to pass and a couple of chick’s on bikes... one kind of pulled out in front of me but she had a great figure so it was OK .....back home... just watching Remy get in a win ...

 

[piranha-bro2]

Looks like a hoot of a weekend guys. Cold weather and air cooled motors - heaven!!

Marty, has your SF Adventurer got particularly long forks? They just look ... long!