Laverda 500 Barn Find

[Tree Hugger]

Excellent translation Vince, you are clearly an adopted Geordie

 

[Vince]

It's pretty similar to Oz slang, the older stuff I get but newer stuff with specific local references not so much. Lots of the Queenslander comments go through to the keeper, to me. Cricket reference. Rhyming slang does similar a lot as well.

 

[Otto]

"Guff" is a slang term for Data or information, and "in my bound" are carefully kept copies of that mentioned Magazine.

Thanks, it’s hard to understand all those “slang terms” on the forum.
I also have copies of the magazine. eBay sells everything.
Never find the magazine with the award ceremony off the competition. I heard a lady won the bike.
Do you have this issue?

 

[Andy J]

Is that the Bunt bike? Remember reading about that (I had a Mk1 Monty at the time) and entered the competition. Did you win it Andy?
Still got all the guff in my bound copies of SuperBike

I bought it off a guy called Steve Hands, who, if I remember correctly, acquired it off the competition winner. I then sold it to John Robertson after having raced it at places like Donington, Mallory Park, Silverstone and of course at the MGP and TT. I probably rode it on the road a few times too.

 

[Tree Hugger]

Thanks, it’s hard to understand all those “slang terms” on the forum.
I also have copies of the magazine. eBay sells everything.
Never find the magazine with the award ceremony off the competition. I heard a lady won the bike.
Do you have this issue?

I’ll have a look.

 

[Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond]

£236 not the end of the world

 

[Andy J]

What I don’t get is someone bid £503 and then withdrew it. Must have been reading Pat’s posts...

 

[pf1]

Or been pissed. I have had that happen several times, I think they do it to find out what the competition has bid.

 

[chrisk]

Or been pissed. I have had that happen several times

We know ….

 

[Andy J]

It’s now been withdrawn as apparently there was an error in the listing??????

 

[pf1]

So who bought it then? Come on own up. Somebody wanted it enough to get the guy to end the listing anyway.

 

[Andy J]

Apparently the sale was ended because the seller hadn’t made it clear enough the engine is missing cams and a cam chain. Personally, I thought that was clear enough from the photos and the description, what you see is what you get. I guess it might reappear for sale at some point.

 

[Otto]

Not only the cams missed. The cilinderblock is lifted so you can expect piston damage and more when water came in.

 

[Dellortoman]

I was out riding my Jota when I found this dilapidated old barn. Does that make it a Laverda barn find?

 

[pf1]

That's where he found the bike.

 

[fintanoc]

don't think it was under a roof. with the extent of the rust it was most likely out in the elements for 30 years

 

[Andy J]

I was out riding my Jota when I found this dilapidated old barn. Does that make it a Laverda barn find?

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I’m sure you weren’t the first to ‘find it’, even if it was ‘lost’ in the first place; so, NO, it doesn’t count…..
And I’m sure in many parts of the world it would be considered a luxury des res and not a barn!

 

[Tree Hugger]

Otto
Here’s the shot courtesy of October 83 Superbike.
The competition ran for 3 months, my only Superbike mags with bits missing
Cheers
David

Thanks, it’s hard to understand all those “slang terms” on the forum.
I also have copies of the magazine. eBay sells everything.
Never find the magazine with the award ceremony off the competition. I heard a lady won the bike.
Do you have this issue?

Here’s a shot courtesy of October 83 Superbike Otto
The competition ran for 3 months in the mag. They’re my only SB’s with holes in

Cheers
David

 

[Steve G.]

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I was out riding my Jota when I found this dilapidated old barn. Does that make it a Laverda barn find?

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That’s what they call a “fixer-upper”.

 

[Otto]

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That’s what they call a “fixer-upper”.

Otto
Here’s the shot courtesy of October 83 Superbike.
The competition ran for 3 months, my only Superbike mags with bits missing
Cheers
David

Here’s a shot courtesy of October 83 Superbike Otto
The competition ran for 3 months in the mag. They’re my only SB’s with holes in

Cheers
David View attachment 89045View attachment 89044

Thanks David,
I Have the April 83 magazine but not the October 83. Now I know who won the competition.
Every time the story is more complete.

Did you know the bike in 1981 when it was in the magazine for the first time?