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EncinoBoy

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Last ditch attempt to resolve my OCD issue with Bauer publications and "Classic Bike" magazine. Somehow
the January and February 2024 issues were not mailed across the Pond. The customer service from Bauer proved
to be an oxymoron despite repeated plain-English explanations of how they had eliminated me from having
every issue since inception in 1978. But,I digress...if any forum members have spare copies and wish to sell or
barter or ? please reach out. I have a lot of stuff that may prove tradeable or even small children to be indentured
into servitude. Thanks for reading this from a pitiable old sod.
 
I was a long time subscriber to Classic Bike magazine but cancelled about 20 years ago when they had run out of new material and were recycling articles. I have every issue from the first up to maybe the year 2000.

How many times do we need to read the same story about the creation of the 1959 Triumph Bonneville? I also don't care about Japanese bikes so switched to the Classic Motorcycle and it too eventually was printing the same articles over again.
 
1200ts said:
I was a long time subscriber to Classic Bike magazine but cancelled about 20 years ago when they had run out of new material and were recycling articles. I have every issue from the first up to maybe the year 2000.

How many times do we need to read the same story about the creation of the 1959 Triumph Bonneville? I also don't care about Japanese bikes so switched to the Classic Motorcycle and it too eventually was printing the same articles over again.
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Not to mention orange and silver Jotas.
Paul
 
1200ts said:
I was a long time subscriber to Classic Bike magazine but cancelled about 20 years ago when they had run out of new material and were recycling articles. I have every issue from the first up to maybe the year 2000.

How many times do we need to read the same story about the creation of the 1959 Triumph Bonneville? I also don't care about Japanese bikes so switched to the Classic Motorcycle and it too eventually was printing the same articles over again.
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They really need to make some more old classic bikes to give the journos something to write about. The barrel has been thoroughly scraped.
 
EncinoBoy said:
the January and February 2024 issues were not mailed across the Pond. The customer service from Bauer proved
to be an oxymoron despite repeated plain-English explanations of how they had eliminated me from having
every issue since inception in 1978. But,I digress...if any forum members have spare copies
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I've managed to find the February 24 issue, if I dig further I may have the Jan issue.
Yours for the asking. PM me if interested.

Chris
 
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Thanks to everyone who either offered those issues or provided opinions. The 1959 Bonneville has in fact been
covered MANY times ! A local Canadian,only 500 miles away has kindly provided me with the two issues. Back
in the late 1960's in America there were around 12 monthly motorcycle magazines,and then the dirtbike/motocross
magazines came onto the scene ! I was fortunate to find a source for the English weeklies which were of course vastly
out of date when they arrived in CA. I did of course discover that most unique of English revenue generators....mark
the motoball (12 crosses if I recall). Down with digital !
 
Early on the only place in Sydney were you could get Classic Bike was Omades, a bike accessory shop open for mega decades. They sold Amol carbs bits and old glass goggles pus all the way cotton gear. Huge stocks sadly now long gone
 
I forgot to mention, another reason I canceled the subscription, is the clueless writers of these magazines. They were not even born when most of the bikes they write about were made and the employees of these motorcycle companies are all dead. So no one to ask questions.

So they just read an old article or book that has incorrect information and believe it as fact. Twenty years from now another magazine editor is going to want an orange and silver Jota article. Anyone who worked at the factory is dead and most of the Laverda family is dead and so are most of us. The only option, read a Classic Bike magazine from 1992 which has alot of incorrect information and copy it.

According to every article I have read about the 180 triples written in the last twenty years is that they vibrate so bad it will make your teeth fall out!

I few months ago I read that all the 1200's were not 180 motors but were 120's.

And let's not forget that the 750 is an exact copy of a Honda motor.
 
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Alzero said:
Or to seduce readers either.
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The two go together.
There are many more people interested in GSXRs than 1912 Humbers. Which is unfortunate.
Laverda motorcycles are fast going the way of 1912 Humbers and only interesting old codgers like myself. They will shortly disappear altogether. You can repair a Humber on the village anvil, not a big Laverda.
Not surprising that bike mechanics are a disappearing species.
Paul
 
1200ts said:
I forgot to mention, another reason I canceled the subscription, is the clueless writers of these magazines. They were not even born when most of the bikes they write about were made and the employees of these motorcycle companies are all dead. So no one to ask questions.

So they just read an old article or book that has incorrect information and believe it as fact. Twenty years from now another magazine editor is going to want an orange and silver Jota article. Anyone who worked at the factory is dead and most of the Laverda family is dead and so are most of us. The only option, read a Classic Bike magazine from 1992 which has alot of incorrect information and copy it.

According to every article I have read about the 180 triples written in the last twenty years is that they vibrate so bad it will make your teeth fall out!

I few months ago I read that all the 1200's were not 180 motors but were 120's.

And let's not forget that the 750 is an exact copy of a Honda motor.
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Of course. That started a long time ago now.
People writing now as you say weren't born when Laverda motorcycles were actual, so they resort to books and magazines on the marque for information.
Even an honest book author will transmit errors, for all sorts of reasons. And those errors will be picked up by others who'll add their own. Nobody gives a shit any way. All they want is glossy paper with nice photos of people pretending to go fast. Photographers are very good at that.

Elsewhere on this forum, somebody has indicated the orange Borghesi SFC book on ebay at a ridiculous price. That book came out at a time when the information and the people concerned were around and yet, even some of the bikes pictured and given as examples of the real thing are far from original. Don't go looking for an SFC with a large wad of cash in one hand and that book in the other.

Paul
 
Journos of all types can write total shite. I had to laugh back in the 70s when a review of an SF stated that they didn't have the rock solid stability of a triple because they didn't have a full cradle frame 🤣🤣🤣

These days just about every modern sports bike uses the motor as a stressed member (shut up Chris!), combined with a low steering head and accompanying short forks ... familiar territory on SFs. But we all know SFs weave and wobble all over the road at speed.
 
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