Introducing myself and My Jota 120 #8297

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timthemediaman

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So, having been a member before I commited, and of ILOC, I have today completed the purchase and have riden home this amazing creature. Having lusted after a Jota in my home village as a youth (I am now 65) I finally got the courage to search and locate the bike of my dreams. I am grateful for this community both now and in the future as I have started from a point of almost total ignorance.

It was a 100 mile drive home and I was more than a little anxious with all the stories and discussions about rideability and yes, it is a beast but so more manageable that I thought it would be. In fact she seems really obedient although I have yet to wind the tacho up above 5,000 rpm. There is some sorting to be done and I need to find a sage mechaic in the Hampshire/Surrey borders to assist - not an easy quest in itself, but she does not even seem to be broken in yet.

Say hello, and if you know anything above this bike don't be embrassed to say so, good or bad. I have booked in to the 50th Anniversary meet so hope to meet some of you there in person.

PS I am trying to upload a couple of images but they are too large. What size do they need to be to be accepted?
 
timthemediaman said:
So, having been a member before I commited, and of ILOC, I have today completed the purchase and have riden home this amazing creature. Having lusted after a Jota in my home village as a youth (I am now 65) I finally got the courage to search and locate the bike of my dreams. I am grateful for this community both now and in the future as I have started from a point of almost total ignorance.

It was a 100 mile drive home and I was more than a little anxious with all the stories and discussions about rideability and yes, it is a beast but so more manageable that I thought it would be. In fact she seems really obedient although I have yet to wind the tacho up above 5,000 rpm. There is some sorting to be done and I need to find a sage mechaic in the Hampshire/Surrey borders to assist - not an easy quest in itself, but she does not even seem to be broken in yet.

Say hello, and if you know anything above this bike don't be embrassed to say so, good or bad. I have booked in to the 50th Anniversary meet so hope to meet some of you there in person.

PS I am trying to upload a couple of images but they are too large. What size do they need to be to be accepted?
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Good Morning Tim,

Welcome to the fold.!!! I should like to give you my personal invitation to The 50th Annversary of the Jota Event I am organising at
Willersey this August 3rd. There are full details in the ILOC mag, Website and on this forum. Last year for the Laverda 75th we had the
biggest gathering of Laverdas ever on UK soil.!!!! Pictures below....This August will be the last big event, and you really do NOT want to
miss this one.....All the great and good of the Laverda world will be present... You have to register to attend the event, my email address
is coxeng@gmx.com This year we hope to top 300 Laverda at the event.!!! Regards, Malcolm (Cox Engineering Laverda 1978)
 

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MALco56 said:
Good Morning Tim,

Welcome to the fold.!!! I should like to give you my personal invitation to The 50th Annversary of the Jota Event I am organising at
Willersey this August 3rd. There are full details in the ILOC mag, Website and on this forum. Last year for the Laverda 75th we had the
biggest gathering of Laverdas ever on UK soil.!!!! Pictures below....This August will be the last big event, and you really do NOT want to
miss this one.....All the great and good of the Laverda world will be present... You have to register to attend the event, my email address
is coxeng@gmx.com This year we hope to top 300 Laverda at the event.!!! Regards, Malcolm (Cox Engineering Laverda 1978)
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Thanks Malcolm, we have already exchanged emails and I have confirmed my attendance. I am really looking forward to it. Regards Tim
 
This time around, Malcolm's third event, I might actually make it, the first one saw me making a proper bad job of riding there, leaving far too late (brain not in gear) then getting very lost on roads that I thought I knew around Cheltenham, and eventually arriving at around 2-30pm, no good at all, I was unaware that I was suffering some stuff that took a while to sort, since at the next one, the 75th anni, I didnt make it at all, that was my third stay in hospital of 2024, and that one of six weeks, I had one further hospital stay (or medipriz as I prefer to call it) in December of that year, 11 days this time, and did eventually get sorted, this year has been better, have been out on TOG quite a bit and also my sidecar (Yam XJR1200/Watsonian GP), but....... next Thursday the 29th of May I am getting the first of two knee replacements, I have waited and needed this for a very long time, I do hope that recovery will allow me to attend and hopefully I will be riding TOG. a contender for the highest record mileage at the event, if there is one which I doubt, (250,000KM+ and counting) It does mean that I am again going to miss this years Amicale rally since it occurs concurently and that might be the third in a row that I have missed. If any you of know of Corrine, Armel, Marylene and the most delightfull and elegant Madame Renee Hupert then you will know why it greaves me to not be able to attend! never mind that this is still the best Laverda anual rally on the planet and it takes place in the Southern Frebnch alps as well, brill ride down, rides whilst there and back..
CLEM
 
CLEMTOG said:
This time around, Malcolm's third event, I might actually make it, the first one saw me making a proper bad job of riding there, leaving far too late (brain not in gear) then getting very lost on roads that I thought I knew around Cheltenham, and eventually arriving at around 2-30pm, no good at all, I was unaware that I was suffering some stuff that took a while to sort, since at the next one, the 75th anni, I didnt make it at all, that was my third stay in hospital of 2024, and that one of six weeks, I had one further hospital stay (or medipriz as I prefer to call it) in December of that year, 11 days this time, and did eventually get sorted, this year has been better, have been out on TOG quite a bit and also my sidecar (Yam XJR1200/Watsonian GP), but....... next Thursday the 29th of May I am getting the first of two knee replacements, I have waited and needed this for a very long time, I do hope that recovery will allow me to attend and hopefully I will be riding TOG. a contender for the highest record mileage at the event, if there is one which I doubt, (250,000KM+ and counting) It does mean that I am again going to miss this years Amicale rally since it occurs concurently and that might be the third in a row that I have missed. If any you of know of Corrine, Armel, Marylene and the most delightfull and elegant Madame Renee Hupert then you will know why it greaves me to not be able to attend! never mind that this is still the best Laverda anual rally on the planet and it takes place in the Southern Frebnch alps as well, brill ride down, rides whilst there and back..
CLEM
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Hope you can make it Clem - A44 out of Oxford ( all the way to Broadway) keep going through Chipping Norton , Moreton in Marsh on to Broadway ( dont speed down Fish Hill ) then right at the next roundabout to Willersey
 
I’d better come on the Chott then Clem don’t want to beat you on mileage but of course to qualify you have to have photo of each time it reaches 99,999 ( one in Thailand and other in France both before the aid of camera phones so creep along then a quick snap with the Pentax ME Super)
 
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This Amicale Rally sounds quite interesting. Are there any details about it?
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Too late for this year.
It's an on invitation only meeting to which you are most welcome, on a Laverda. Remind me for 2026.
Held every year from the Ascension Thursday to the Sunday, in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy or the UK or anywhere according to who volunteers to organise the do.
No idea yet where we'll be next year, candidates for the organisation will be sought after.
Paul
(Photo taken at our overnight stay 8 years ago now (thank you Facebook). Riding down to Burgundy with Corinne and two British friends.)
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Paul Marx said:
Too late for this year.
It's an on invitation only meeting to which you are most welcome, on a Laverda. Remind me for 2026.
Held every year from the Ascension Thursday to the Sunday, in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy or the UK or anywhere according to who volunteers to organise the do.
No idea yet where we'll be next year, candidates for the organisation will be sought after.
Paul
(Photo taken at our overnight stay 8 years ago now (thank you Facebook). Riding down to Burgundy with Corinne and two British friends.)
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Sounds great! I’ll put a note in the calendar to remind you for 2026.
 
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