Laverda market and future

[Kickback]

I wonder if the future could have parallels with something like the Scott (Flying Squirrel) it was a small, innovative performance manufacturer with it's heyday and racing greatness a generation before Laverda. Scott collapsed, was dormant and went through an ill-feted resurrection producing an updated model that never took off. They have a dedicated following, a really switched on club (my uncle was a club officer decades ago) and improving spares organisation. Interest and prices remain strong as a result. I reckon few people under 70 have heard of them, but there is hope if the spares and interest group scene is strong and supported

 

[The Sock]

I wonder if the future could have parallels with something like the Scott (Flying Squirrel) it was a small, innovative performance manufacturer with it's heyday and racing greatness a generation before Laverda. Scott collapsed, was dormant and went through an ill-feted resurrection producing an updated model that never took off. They have a dedicated following, a really switched on club (my uncle was a club officer decades ago) and improving spares organisation. Interest and prices remain strong as a result. I reckon few people under 70 have heard of them, but there is hope if the spares and interest group scene is strong and supported

I am/was a regular at The Hollyville Cafe, just up the road from Brands Hatch, where there was a good crop of bikes of all ages: Vincent Black Prince, Gold Stars inc. an ISDT one, and this little beauty, for any not fortunate enough to have seen a Scot Flying Squirrel.

 

[CLEMTOG]

and I have to report the the "other" cafe at the "other end" of the Brands hatch road, the Oakdene, has been knocked flat to make way for modern industrial units, bloody good job too, the car park was like a quarry surface and the cafe a rundown shithole with crap food.
CLEM

 

[Kickback]

I am/was a regular at The Hollyville Cafe, just up the road from Brands Hatch, where there was a good crop of bikes of all ages: Vincent Black Prince, Gold Stars inc. an ISDT one, and this little beauty, for any not fortunate enough to have seen a Scot Flying SquirrelView attachment 57376.

Water cooled two-stroke years ahead of it's time and won races, they rarely come up for sale. Apparently a good club scene which is involved in sourcing spares https://scottownersclub.org/history/