Out and About on your Laverda.No bull,Just photos

Yes, it is and again too much power for the rider 😂. I need to do some adjustments, look to the brake disks. It is braking really good but it seems that the whole disks are not used??
I lowered the foot rests about 4 cm and it is more comfortable for an old man….
 
Yes Jo it’s a great thing to ride in the twisties but a bugger on the long highway hauls😢. I did nearly 1500k’s in two days and the twisties make up for the pain on the long highway miles😊👍. Always lusted after a HP2 and finally got the chance to get one with very low k’s at a really good price. Am loving it😂👍
Tom
 
ozijotati said:
Yes Jo it’s a great thing to ride in the twisties but a bugger on the long highway hauls😢. I did nearly 1500k’s in two days and the twisties make up for the pain on the long highway miles😊👍. Always lusted after a HP2 and finally got the chance to get one with very low k’s at a really good price. Am loving it😂👍
Tom
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Had an HP2S, loved it but finally had to sell it, too hard on the old 70+body. Here's a pic with my Laverda.
 

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Family viewing of Furiosa, the new Mad Max flick - SO many BMWs in the hordes of marauding bikes. Hemsworth on the chariot is an absolute classic - two beemers, one on each side, and a radial engine of some sort for the centrepiece (don't reckon the radial was operating - but looked great, unlike the beemers) Bloody entertaining it was too. Kept my eye out for a stray 3CL - but nothing! What a surprise! There is a nice old Norton in there though.

I'd love a job with the team building all those funky bikes, cars and trucks!
 

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Many years ago I used to hang out at the Union Hotel halfway between North Sydney and Crows Nest on the Pacific Hwy a lot playing pool. It was owned by Mike Willasy and lots of TV and film people hang out there. A lot of film stunt blokes did as well including the bloke who did the cliff jump in Stone. One Saturday night the word went out that they were looking for riders to fill in as background for Mad Max 2 being filmed around Silvertowe out bear Broken Hill. I always regretted not going.
 
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Many years ago I used to hang out at the Union Hotel halfway between North Sydney and Crows Nest on the Pacific Hwy a lot playing pool. It was owned by Mike Willasy and lots of TV and film people hang out there. A lot of film stunt blokes did as well including the bloke who did the cliff jump in Stone. One Saturday night the word went out that they were looking for riders to fill in as background for Mad Max 2 being filmed around Silvertowe out bear Broken Hill. I always regretted not going.
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No CGI there - very seventies. When I was a kid we watched Grant Page “ Cunning Stunts” as kids we didn’t get that sign on their van😂
 
I worked on a couple of commercials, scary watching unqualified idiots using overhead cranes to move very heavy scenery with zero idea on how to rig the slings safely. Everything was done in the most slip-shod way, lots of fancy talk but not much thinking.
 
I was property manager at a large aircraft hangar in Van Nuys that was often rented to production companies. There is a hierarchy to these things: the sloppiest, most slipshod was a traveling theater company who used the place for rehearsing airial scenes on a wire. Next was television, several series and a Movie of the week were filmed there. Then came actual cinema production, the film Darkman filmed several big scenes. But the folks who really had their shit together were the commercial shoots. Fast, professional, and efficient. I remember they filmed the commercials to introduce the Mitsubishi Eclipse to North America there and I was quite impressed.
 
Mine was for some kind of Toyota, I was required to ride my 3c through the scene while a manikin Yellow Chicken jumped out of the way and 3 or 4 other unexplained stuff happened. All very complicated and requiring exact timing to get right. What that chicken represented was well above my pay grade. All I knew was after 50 takes my clutch was getting very hot and the $200 cash was fast becoming not enough to justify the wear and tear. The crane bit happened next, they had a telegraph-sized pole dressed as a tree that needed moving so a camera would fit, that pole came close to hitting people as it overbalanced on its sling. Blind Fredy could see how dumb their rigging was. Just heaps of bullshit circle jerking about artistic content for hours and hours from some really unpleasant people. Never again.
 
My boss at the time told then that 8 hours a day, my presence was included in their rental rate. Anything after that was between me and them for the movies and TV, I was there for 24 hours a day. I slept and showered there and ate off their catering trucks. Gourmet food and $150 an hour in cash. For at least a week for each production. That’s how I bought my RGS, or rather paid my wife back for the money she fronted me.
 
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