Laverda at 69 Bol

Great video ....... Laverda # 80 got a lot of coverage !

Piero , and a very young looking Luciano Zen at 2 : 57 ............ :) ........

Looking at Guzzi 750 #58 of Krajka / Douniaux ......... Am I right in thinking it was Charles Krajka who campaigned a 1000 Convert in Endurance racing some ten years or so later ........ slow , but must have saved a lot of rider fatigue over a 24 hr race.......... ! ...........

Or maybe I`m getting him mixed up with someone else ....... :unsure: ..........

In an interview , Massimo Laverda once mentioned he competed in a 24 hr race in the early days of the factory involvement ...... not this one by the look of it ........ but said it was something he would never , ever , do again ......... something about waking up the day after the race with no feeling in his arms ....... and thinking for a second that they had both been amputated ......... ! ........

It may have been in Holland , where the race at Oss was organised by a " pirate " Catholic based committee at odds with FIM rules ....... so to protect their racing licences , people entered using assumed names ........

I believe Massimo was " Islero " ..... ( after his Lamborghini car ) ...... and Augusto Brettoni was " Otis " ..... ( after the lift company he worked for ) .......

( If I remember correctly ........... ) ...........
 
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rocketonarail said:
Looking at Guzzi 750 #58 of Krajka / Douniaux ......... Am I right in thinking it was Charles Krajka who campaigned a 1000 Convert in Endurance racing some ten years or so later ........ slow , but must have saved a lot of rider fatigue over a 24 hr race.......... ! ...........
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Very much the same Krajka, yes.
rocketonarail said:
In an interview , Massimo Laverda once mentioned he competed in a 24 hr race in the early days of the factory involvement ...... not this one by the look of it ........ but said it was something he would never , ever , do again ......... something about waking up the day after the race with no feeling in his arms ....... and thinking for a second that they had both been amputated ......... ! ........
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In fact in the course of the evening, Massimo left the night riding to Brettoni, only to remount the next morning.
rocketonarail said:
It may have been in Holland , where the race at Oss was organised by a " pirate " Catholic based committee at odds with FIM rules ....... so to protect their racing licences , people entered using assumed names ........
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Correct. The KNMV/FIM saw the NMB as “pirates”, but the NMB was in fact very successful in organizing racing events that were mostly held on street tracks and were very accessible for both riders and public. It was the 24 hours of Oss that reached international fame, for a big part because the Laverda team took it seriously and sent a big team to Holland every year from 1969 until 1973 with their stars usually riding under pseudonyms.
NMB riders with international ambitions had to switch to the KNMV/FIM. Successful riders such as Boet van Dulmen and Jack Middelburg both started racing with the NMB.
rocketonarail said:
I believe Massimo was " Islero " ..... ( after his Lamborghini car ) ...... and Augusto Brettoni was " Otis " ..... ( after the lift company he worked for ) .......
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Massimo indeed used the name of his Lamborghini Islero. Islero was the name of a famous bull in Spain. This made Brettoni chose the name Otis, because that was the name of a famous Spanish bull fighter at the time.

Marnix
 
Great footage- such a shame there was no soundtrack on these cine films, we have missed out so much on this era.
BSA endurance racer- good luck with that! I think this was probably the best time for racing- so many makes, different engines, privateers beating works teams, girls with no bras, what’s not to like?
 
Exmoor beast said:
Great footage- such a shame there was no soundtrack on these cine films, we have missed out so much on this era.
BSA endurance racer- good luck with that! I think this was probably the best time for racing- so many makes, different engines, privateers beating works teams, girls with no bras, what’s not to like?
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It was adventurous. Incredible how the endurance racing professionalised in a few years time..
 
The Sock said:
What's with the "Kawasaki" at 5:10?
Surely that's a 750S tank?
Did they use the frame, as well?
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Well spotted Hamish ....... (y) .......... something I never noticed , first time round ....... Actually , In the YouTube viewing of this , some one else spots this as well in the comments ( In French ) .......

At the BMF Rally some years ago , I spotted a Kawasaki W650 / W800 ..... ( the retro style twin ) ........ decked out in BSA badges , in place of all the Kawasaki originals .......... a sort of reversal of the above ..........

I`ve always liked the Kawasaki W650 / 800`s ......... a much better go at capturing the looks and style of a British 650 twin than Hinckley Triumph`s attempt at the same thing .

At another BMF , there was a 76 / 77 Jota parked up where everything had been chromed ........ Everything ...... frame , swing arm , engine and cam covers , wheels , forks , tank etc ............ the only things to escape appeared to be the tyres and the seat ......... In the bright sunlight , it almost hurt the eyes to look at it ........
 
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