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

iis_iis said:
Not sure you are hitting the front brake hard enough Sock old bean, there should be a dent in the front mudguard, for the declining eye here would have the centre header at the same radius as the outer two..... call me wrong, happens so often am impervious, mostly. Then of course your of the age of just got the thing to go, why use the brakes... have not worn out a set of front brake pads these last 30 years or more, sic. Nice cylinder to cylinder fuel load from the blue tinge j.
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Not guilty, Your Honour.
Those four pots do work.
The blue ones in the foreground, of the photo above, is David Langley's. Mine, like the ding, is in the centre.

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Are those guys really trying/ :eek: :ROFLMAO: Love watching the way the bike moves around under him - it demonstrates how important 'soft' hands are - I reckon if he was grabbing the bars for dear life in some of those moments the thing would be off in the reeds pronto.
 
Andy J said:
and here is the man himself describing the win...
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I can remember watching from the Creg, the noise of the crowd was unbelievable- nearest thing to Hailwood winning. Guy in Douglas had gambled on the win and already had tee shirts printed and sold out! If that was Hislops idea of taking it easy..I can remember people saying for first time he rode it like a short circuit , curb to curb, black lines - flat out. I think that was the end of riders not riding at 7/10’s, just enough to win- this was to set the bar for how the guys ride now. I was pit crew next to Norton a few years before and was behind them at the petrol station and remember thinking that they weren’t using special fuel, they weren’t using special anything, bit amateur really.
Probably the last time a small outfit beat the big boys fairytale style.
 
Dominic Langdon-Down had SFC 75N on his erm... SFC, sold to Phil Todd, and on again, I wonder where that one is, of course we all know who and what has EYX 1V but can anyone decpiher? she is called TOG forchrissakes and my Bently is CLE111 with black bolts between the 1's at the top of each digit
CLEM
 
Just been for a shortish blast, almost perfect temperature , all lanes around here covered in spilt hay. Bike running well, no cars warm sun on my mush. The big house is Combe Sydenham, country pad of Sir Walter Raleigh, boyfriend of Elizabeth I and bit of a lad! It’s now a posh shooting/ fishing place but also the HQ of the Dave Thorpe Honda off road school. I often see the class out riding 20 or so Africa Twins all blasting about- looks a right laugh.Stopped to take a picture and a farmer parked in front of me “ for a chat” 😂
 

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Exmoor beast said:
Just been for a shortish blast, almost perfect temperature , all lanes around here covered in spilt hay. Bike running well, no cars warm sun on my mush. The big house is Combe Sydenham, country pad of Sir Walter Raleigh, boyfriend of Elizabeth I and bit of a lad! It’s now a posh shooting/ fishing place but also the HQ of the Dave Thorpe Honda off road school. I often see the class out riding 20 or so Africa Twins all blasting about- looks a right laugh.Stopped to take a picture and a farmer parked in front of me “ for a chat” 😂
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Lovely motorcycling country.
 
Exmoor beast said:
Can’t complain but I do prefer France- the vastness is something we don’t have. I have to go out early before the cretins in camper vans get out but it’s the best part of the day anyway.
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It depends where, and when in France.
Humanity being afflicted by the sheep syndrome, ie. all in herds, some parts of France are overcrowded. I live in the most densely populated area of France apart from Paris, and at the moment, it's heaven. There's nobody. They've all pissed off down South.
But you're right, we cover thousands of kilometres a year across France and you can ride for hours on end without hardly crossing a car, or a motorcycle. Motorcyclists are particularly afflicted by the sheep syndrome.

Paul
 
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