I personally know of two people and three bikes that were not returned.One of them pestered and pestered, and kept on pestering, in the meantime, the repairer moved his premises, several times, moonlight flips as well !,he just gave up, it was many years in the pestering, in the early days he visited a few times and did see the bike, but he also visited a few times and did not see the bike, "its upstairs, in my mates workshop (who is not here right now) not been brought over from the old place, just got a few things to sort etc etc", he never worked away from home and never let it go until he resolved himself to the fact that the bike probably no longer existed as a whole, and there was no point in trying to take legal action since blood does not come out of stones, he moved away from laverda motorcycling completely.
The second had more or less the same story, except that at the finish he visited the then known premises with a van, hid himself and waited, he waited for three days, aparently he is never there on a Monday (still the same?) and did not apear on the Tuesday, but he did show on the wednesday, at about 1500hrs, clutching some parts, my friend then confronted him, and it did get a bit nasty, he and his accomplice are big blokes, one of them a very fit Shwarznegger type who does not take no for an answer, and has paid a high price for his attitude in the past, they did get a collection of parts, and they were loaded into the van,There is no way of telling weather they got the correct parts back or not, but they could certainly not have built running and rideable bikes with what they got,they probably got 50% of what was their porperty, 25% that may have been someone elses, and 25% missing.Plus the repairs that the bikes were originally there for had not even been looked at.And all this involved hiring a van, camping rough, and a four hour each way ferry crossing .Costly and highly time consuming and probably not worth it other than on principle (which I uphold) to say the least but that is why many give up.I am not happy to say that I was instigational in the second man going there in the first place.
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). Some CD's or DVD's I lent I never saw coming back and even money I lent to one of my relatives I am still chasing for (and to be honest, that would pay two 750SFC's in perfect condition on current market value...), but that was half ways a business investment and it simply did not pay off. That's life. Am I angry about it - yes. Did I learn from it? Damned, yes!! Hard lesson, but one I did overcome. there are more important things in life than money, right? But Laverdas? Well... I lent a Laverda to the same relative and not only had to pick it up myself (which was not a big issue) but also had to search through all rooms and garages for the missing parts, not talking about the keys. All returned, but still I had to collect it myself. I took it as an example to teach my boys what never to do with anything they lent from anyone.
